Status effect gained: ANXIOUS, the HUD calls the Dossier

About this game

Developer: ZA/UM · Publisher: ZA/UM · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

The moment the menu system reaches into the world: gaining the ANXIOUS status does not pop a generic toast but deals a small dossier card, anatomical plate, effect name, and one offered action, OPEN DOSSIER, sending the player to the screen where that effect is filed. Underneath, the exploration HUD stays minimal: the three faculty pressures (FTG, ANX, DEL) as segmented bars in their Dossier colours, gathered around a halftone profile of the agent's head. It is the Disco Elysium HUD philosophy carried over and tightened, almost nothing on screen, and everything that does appear is an artefact of the fiction rather than chrome over it. Frame at about 1:02 in the ZERO PARADES - Features and Gameplay Trailer video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0016.png at 62.0s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

status-row data-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Menu Tooltip

Screen inventory

• centre-left: a notification card in the dossier's own visual language, a flayed-torso plate beside 'Status Effect Gained / ANXIOUS' and a single action, OPEN DOSSIER, the HUD event routes straight back into the menu system where the effect lives
• bottom-left: the persistent pressure readout, FTG 12, ANX 16, DEL 7 as segmented colour bars (magenta, amber, violet), the same three faculties as the Dossier, anchored over a halftone head-profile widget ringed with system icons
• the world stays visible underneath: a night pier, the agent rendered in the game's x-ray anatomical style, the interface never fully leaves the fiction, even mid-exploration

Top 3 colors

#2d1c2f 27%#211628 21%#3c323c 16%

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

Source and credit

© ZA/UM, ZERO PARADES: Director's Cut screenshot: ZERO PARADES - Features and Gameplay Trailer / Launch Trailer (English) videos (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by ZA/UM.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: pipeline scene-change frame (candidates/v0_0016.png, 62.0s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native), settled gameplay frame, the ANXIOUS card and the FTG/ANX/DEL bars sharp and fully legible; no trailer typography or transition overlays the frame

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