City HUD over a roundabout: May 2041, $752,263

About this game

Developer: Gaming Minds Studios · Publisher: Kalypso Media · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

The Tropico HUD is a desk, not a dashboard: two icon rails live permanently at the bottom - what kind of thing to build, and which ledger to open - and the palette cards rise out of them like paper folders. The top bar keeps the dictator's five vital signs (money, secret money, research, people, approval) in one ruled strip with the date, so the whole state of the island is a glance up and a glance down. Frame at about 1:28 in the Gameplay Trailer (Steam), a scene-change survivor (v0_0034 at 88.2s) inspected at full resolution in this run; Work in progress watermark disclosed in the elements.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

top-bar bottom-dock panel-grid

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Toolbar Menu Map Resource bar

Screen inventory

• top bar: the date May 2041 and the state in five cells - $ 752,263 treasury, Swiss-account 5,207, research 120, population 961, approval 72% - plus power and menu buttons at the left
• centre, the city at work: a traffic roundabout with a Presidente billboard island, police car, colonial and modern blocks - the palette is open over a living street, not a paused menu
• bottom, the build palette card for the decoration category: Demolish, Terraforming, Tree, Fountain, Park Element, Statue, Roads, Roundabout, Flower Bed, Garden, Planter, Tree - illustrated tiles with labels, two tidy rows
• below it, two permanent rails: a ten-icon category row (industry, freight, farming, housing, trade, entertainment, media, tourism, military) and a quick-access strip of ten parchment buttons (almanac, building, book, map, scales, anchor, pirate, Presidente, bank, handshake)

Top 3 colors

#23251a 23%#918679 18%#bcaea1 17%

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

Source and credit

© Gaming Minds Studios / Kalypso Media, Tropico 7 screenshot: Tropico 7 - Gameplay Trailer video (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 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-22: scene-change survivor v0_0034.png (88.2s) inspected visually at full resolution in this run; keeper file city-build-hud.png is a byte copy of that survivor

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