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The Ugly Ducling

The Ugly Ducling is a minimalist block-based exploration and horror game, using the children's story "The Ugly Duckling" as a theme, where the player will need to find the lost pages of the protagonist's story in different biomes, while surviving.

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November 30, 2022
3 years and 246 days ago
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About the Game

The Ugly Ducling is a block-based exploration and horror psychological, using the children's story "The Ugly Duckling" as a theme, where the player will need to find the lost pages of the protagonist's story in different biomes, while surviving.
Voxel Terrain and Procedural Generation, Open World.
Third Person Controller
Story:
A baby swan is hatched in the nest of a duckness. Because he is different from other chicks, the poor guy is chased, offended and mistreated by all ducks and other birds.
One day, tired of so much humiliation, he flees the nest. During his journey, he stops in several places, but is treated badly by everyone who passed by. Finally, a peasant family finds him and helps him by welcoming him during the winter.
After a few weeks, he decides to go to the lake and to see the beauty of him being out of the pattern in the eyes of the duck mother, he himself kidnaps her and tortures piscologically duck mother, as a way of revenge for the humiliations whose her children caused to him.