Gear Upgrades: crafting The Gloom Smasher between chapters

About this game

Developer: Worldwalker Games LLC · Publisher: Worldwalker Games LLC / WhisperGames · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Comic & cartoon · Screen type: Character / Unit Detail

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What to study

The between-chapter upgrade screen does four jobs in one spread and keeps them all visible: the company's loadouts at left, the hero wearing the candidate item in the middle, the item browser under her, and an honest current-vs-new ledger at right where only the stats that change get green arrows. Two details reward study: the action text names the hero ('Soria strikes with her The Gloom Smasher…'), so a generic item card becomes her card; and the cost list is a checklist already ticked against shared party resources, so the craft decision is made with the whole company's purse on the table. Frame at about 0:40 in the Early Access Launch Trailer (Steam; manual filmstrip extraction, the screen holds settled while the trailer dwells on the selected mace).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

master-detail stat-rows cost-list

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs Grid List Progress bar Slots

Screen inventory

• the frame of the screen is a chapter break: 'Chapter 2 Complete / Gear Upgrades' top left, a five-dot progress track across the top, and an 'Enter Next' button, crafting happens in the story's pauses, as one step of the between-chapter sequence
• the left column stacks the whole company as loadout rows: each hero (Soria Gore, Ellen Timber, Borglin Stack) gets Armor / Primary / Secondary / Offhand chips with tiers printed on them, above a Current Resources list (12 Heartwoods, 16 Hides, 16 Ingots, 12 Fabrics, 12 Spellthreads) the costs are drawn from
• the centre is the paperdoll: Soria stands life-size holding the candidate mace and her offhand spellshard, over a 'Replace with:' browser, weapon-type tabs (Sword, Axe, Mace, Spear, Bow, Crossbow, Dagger, Staff, Wand) beside a grid where crafted tiers show as star-rated icons and uncrafted ones stay padlocked
• the right column is a before/after ledger: Current Spinesong (Tier 1) against New The Gloom Smasher (Tier 3), stat rows with green delta arrows on the two gains (Damage 5 to 7, Knockback 1.6 to 2.1), one line of flavour, the Fire stunt and the Slam action written out with Soria's name in the sentence, then a Cost (with discount 5) checklist ticked green against the party's stock and the Craft Item button

Top 3 colors

#352a22 26%#afaa94 23%#c3bda4 18%

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

Source and credit

© Worldwalker Games LLC / Worldwalker Games LLC / WhisperGames, Wildermyth screenshot: Steam trailers (Launch Trailer / Early Access Launch Trailer / Wildermyth Trailer), Worldwalker Games LLC, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Worldwalker Games LLC / WhisperGames.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-27. verified 2026-10-27: filmstrip extraction filmstrip/v1_0021.png @ ~40.0s in the Early Access Launch Trailer, MD5 cb25e68c0744a38006d8cefc79f79d30, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (71,418,931 B, MD5 7d9d5a0c798dac34b31e38bbe418fb29; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines (decode-steam-763890-Early-Access-Launch-Trailer.err)), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the resources list, all loadout rows, the weapon grid, both item columns, the stat deltas and the cost checklist legible; no trailer text or watermark in frame

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