Traffic & Infrastructure build menu with full HUD

About this game

Developer: Limbic Entertainment / Realmforge Studios · Publisher: Kalypso Media · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

This is the whole Tropico 6 HUD in one frame, and it shows how the game layers its systems without hiding the city: the treasury bar and the task rail (Knowledge, TAO Score, unemployment, embassy invites) stay visible while the build panel is open, the selected Nuclear Power Plant carries its twin costs and worker count in the panel footer, and the bottom dock keeps every management system one click away. Infrastructure is treated as one category among thirteen, so a metro station and a tunnel sit next to a wind turbine in the same grid. Frame at about 2:14 in the Tropico 6 Featurette US (Steam). Trailer burn-in: TROPICO 6 watermark top left and subtitle text at the bottom are featurette artifacts, not game UI.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

panel-grid top-bar status-row hud-overlay cost-list task-rail

Components

Parts on screen.

Grid Toolbar Resource bar Clock Quest tracker

Screen inventory

• Traffic & Infrastructure panel header
• 13-category icon rail across the top
• building grid: Dock, Construction Office, Teamster's Office, Landing, Storage Quay, Electric Substation, Power Plant, Parking Deck, Bus Garage, Tunnel Connection, Nuclear Power Plant (selected), Metro Station, Teleferic Station, Wind Turbine, Solar Power Plant, Road, Destroy
• selected-building footer: Nuclear Power Plant, 5,000 / 32,000 cost, 4 workers, description line
• top-left treasury bar: $63,357, 79, 69%
• left task rail: Knowledge (600/3000), TAO Score (0/150), Unemployment 14% (Goal: 7%), Market Manipulation, Invite Russia to Embassy, Office (0/1)
• bottom-left time controls: Jul, 1991, play and speed controls
• bottom-center management dock icons
• TROPICO 6 trailer watermark top left (trailer artifact, disclose)
• subtitle burn-in at bottom (trailer artifact, disclose)

Top 3 colors

#49534e 20%#667775 18%#e9eee5 16%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Limbic Entertainment / Realmforge Studios / Kalypso Media, Tropico 6 screenshot: Tropico 6 Featurette US (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Kalypso Media.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-01. verified 2026-11-01: frame extracted from the official Tropico 6 Featurette US (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game HUD and build panel (treasury bar, task rail, building grid, selected-building footer, time controls, dock) confirmed visible

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