diff --git a/game/scripts/interface/stats.rpy b/game/scripts/interface/stats.rpy
index c4dac958..79489418 100644
--- a/game/scripts/interface/stats.rpy
+++ b/game/scripts/interface/stats.rpy
@@ -434,9 +434,8 @@ screen stat_bar(steps, top_text, bottom_text, stat_number, top_padding=20):
         add Crop((0, 0, steps*36, 600), gui.format("interface/stats/{}/bar_full.webp"))
         add gui.format("interface/stats/{}/bar_empty.webp")
 
-    text bottom_text+" (lvl " +str(stat_number)+ ")" xalign 0.5 size 20
+    text "[bottom_text] (lvl [stat_number])" xalign 0.5 size 20
 
 screen text_stat(startText="", endText="", amount="", top_padding = 20):
     sensitive False
-
-    text (startText +str(amount)+ endText) xpos 20 size 14
+    text "[startText][amount][endText]" xpos 20 size 14