Things Too Ugly 💾

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Kevin, he/him 🤖 #GameDev 😱 Asst. Professor, Digital Media Arts Things Too Ugly ⏰ #indiegame Midwestern, psychological horror, corporate labor, science-fiction, 1986, story-rich, puzzle game Play on Steam: https://tinyurl.com/ThingsTooUgly

A screenshot of a Google search for the computer game Things Too Ugly. A countdown says 8 days 6 hours. There's a link to the Steam store, then quick facts. It's a game for all consoles, made by Professor Space Games, releases on January 16th, and was made in Unity. At the bottom, it's tagged with genre labels including adventure, indie, and simulation.
A perfect, plump, round mourning dove on concrete with a snowy lavender plant in the background.
A dark, low-contrast video of an animation. Dark muddy water with a yellowish light, a yellow handheld radio floats along the top of the water bobbing gently. Text reads, "Things Too Ugly" January 16th 2025 with console logos.
A black and white polaroid of delicate, thin, white crystals on a flat silvery surface. Across the front of the photo, handwritten in Sharpie, are the words "January 16th, 2025, Things Too Ugly."
A dim screen with a retro computer monitor in the center. Text is blurred. A plant, handheld radio, coffee mug, and toy circle the monitor. Part of a calendar is visible at the bottom says 1986.
A screenshot from Things Too Ugly shows a close up of a dated giant computer monitor that reads Terebro Laboratories. The computer has dated keyboard. A UI element hovers to the left to show how you log in to the computer with user id, passcode, and shift code. Veri-Fi risk assessment and management software, please wait for your supervisor's instructions.
Screenshot of a comment on Nintendo Insider website from User "Bubba" reads "game looks dull as hell."
Screenshot of Gamespew.com's list of games coming in 2025. January releases, Things Too Ugly. A photo from the gameplay of a dated office desk and computer. Article text reads: ps4, ps5, Xbox one, Xbox series x/s, and PC. January 16th, narrative puzzle. Set in the 80s, Things Too Ugly puts you in the role of a data processor at Terebro Inc. By sorting through archives of documents, photos, and recordings, you'll uncover the mysterious history of the company. Expect challenging puzzles, an intriguing narrative, and some scares.
A dim screenshot of a desk calendar from April 1986 with little notes tucked under the sides. A big company logo in the corner of the calender reads Terebro Inc. In the foreground, a gray decoder wheel when with a circular arrow is set on the letter R.
A screenshot of a vintage office space. Wood panel with various maps, posters, cards pinned to the wall. A stack of files on the left, a coffee mug, and radio, lit by a small desk lamp. On the right, a heavy computer monitor screen reads, "Terebro Laboratories."
A display grid from an aquarium of 16 panels featuring 14 pictures of types of fish. The sign says over 200 species of fish are found in Missouri. Buffalo, Channel Cat, Longnose Gar, Striped Seabass, Bluegill, Shovelnose Sturgeon, Walleye, Missouri Paddlefish, Grass Carp, Freshwater Drum, Crappie, Spotted Gar, Largemouth Bass, Bowfin
Grainy, black and white image of a distorted and manipulated eyeball that looks like a galaxy in a vintage photograph. Handwritten white text reads, Professor Space Games.
Screenshot from the Things Too Ugly Steam page. A glitchy computer screen from the gameplay. Text reads, "Planned release date, January 16th, 2025. This game unlocks in 7 weeks."
Video game trailer for Things Too Ugly. Flashing sequences of dated office space and a computer terminal from 1986. Amid glitches, a file is opened on the desk and various documents rotate and flash on the screen with fragments of corporate archives from Terebro Inc. The computer accepts typed answers. A screen says, "dredge the archives, and "unravel the mystery." A radio, a GPS, and a decoder wheel are shown, and progressively spooky images quickly flash on the screen.
A polaroid photo of an abstracted, distorted, and wiggly eyeball (zoomed in tight to the iris) in black and white with sharpie at the bottom that says, "Professor Space Games" on the bottom.
A photo of a small post card pinned to a corkboard with other paper notes. The post card features an ink drawing of a mustached man in glasses showing a drawn portrait to its subject. The subject is a duck. The man is saying, "It's you." The duck seems to be inspecting the drawing discerningly. There are previous crumpled drawings laying on the floor. This is a black and white drawing with what appears to be a subtle ink wash.
Sunset photo, tints of blue and orange across the sky. The sun is setting behind a bridge in the distance. The wide Mississippi River reflects the orange and blue. Scraggly plants and rocks line the banks in dark black silhouettes.
A brown to beige gradient has 3 simple pixel art icons arranged in a grid. Top left is an eye. Top right is a microscope. Bottom left is a cloud. Each icon is represented as a chromatic manipulation with red, green, and blue appearing as a glitchy/blurry line instead of white.
A photo of a Least Bittern bird. It's short, stocky, and has a long sharp beam. It's beige in color with rust and black accents along the wings and back.
A photo of Taco Bell's Cap'n Crunch Delights desserts placed in front of a Taco Bell bag. The delights are spherical, red,and have a colorful, crumbly coating.
Screenshot of a desk calendar from April 1986. It's zoomed in on a top corner showing a few days. The word "Legend!" is visible on the 18th. The 25th says, "test new software" and there's an arrow pointing to the 26th. A logo, "Things Too Ugly" is in the bottom right corner.
Both Bigfoot and Yeti appear to be harmless to humans, although a sudden confrontation with either creature might cause it to lash out in alarm. The people of Bigfoot and Yeti habitats claim to have heard the creatures grunting and snuffling outside their tents during the long winter nights. But they never venture out in pursuit. Their superstitious fear of the creatures has given rise to such unjustified names as the Abominable Snowman, although conservationists are certain that Bigfoot and Yeti areerely the harmless survivors of an endangered species.
Tritons: The mermen of the Mediterranean. They have some resemblance to mermen of other waters, but areucn less attractive in character and appearance. Apart from a fishlike tail, they also have scales on their torsos, sharp fish's teeth, and webbed fingers with long claws. Like mermen of the northern seas, they can change their tails to legs and walk upon the land.
Leviathan: This word is often used as a synonym for the whale or even the crocodile, but the only authentic description of the Leviathan (in the book of Job) shows he is a totally different type of creature. He is a fire breathing sea monster, of such enormous size that the sea boils when he swims on the surface. He breathes smothe from his nostrils and flame from his mouth, which is rimmed with terrible teeth. His skin is like a double coat of mail, covered with overlapping scales as big as shields on his back.
Two books on a wood surface. Book on the left: Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were by Michael Page and Robert Ingpen. Cover has several monsters. Right: Money, Games, Economies, University of Krems Press.
Dark black water with the text "Unravel the mystery" in beige.
Bright blue sky against thin branches and A large hornets nest revealing the inner chambers.
Blurry and glitchy image featuring a vintage computer monitor and keyboard. The screen says Terebro Laboratories. Dark muddy water is in the background. A mug hovers in the upper left corner, a decoder wheel in the bottom left.
A busy screenshot of the game world from Things Too Ugly. It's an interior office space featuring a single desk, and we're observing that desk as if we're sitting right in front of it. The wall is wood paneled. There's a heavy -looking old computer terminal with a wood veneer keyboard and a big intercom on the right. Theres a desk lamp for low-light ambience. The bulletin board in the back is filled with papers and notes. Files are stacked up and laid on on the desk. Trinkets are scattered, a coffee cup, a radio, a gps, and a plant make it feel lived in.
Zoomed in and rotating video of a video game asset spinning in a circle to reveal different angles of the 3d model. A dated looking GPS with chunky white numerical buttons, and a "submit" and "clear" button. There's a short but thick black antenna, a glowing green screen with geometric mapping, the word "OSCAR" is legible on the screen.
A photograph of water from the Mississippi River. Brown, deep, moving water that starts to glow blue on the top reflection.
A photo of the cover of the official Elden Ring Art Book Volume 1. The cover features a character from the game, Godfrey, First Elden Lord looking off into the distance. His lion companion is perched on his shoulder. The cover uses primarily hues of blue, grey, and gold. The book is sitting squarely on an oak dining table.
A 3d model of an imagined, retrofuturistic GPS device. It is handheld, features a green screen depicting a map of a river, a small speaker, buttons, a blue led light, an antenna, and a carabiner-style clasp.
Text over a dark graphic of a calendar. Reads: "Puzzler/Parser Mechanics. 1. Read, evaluate software's request. 2. Inspect, rotate, zoom as you shift through incident files. 3. Run task and input data. 4. Listen, communicate with the supervisor. 5. Unearth, reconcile, try not to lose your job! Tips: work one file at a time and pore over the contents to glean clues. Rotate and zoom in on documents, photos, and other artifacts. Got the answer, run it as a task in your computer terminal to piece together a tense, thrilling story.
A notebook doodle: A scribbly line drawing in red ink depicting a spooky Italianate house. There is a red pen laying on the drawing.
Screen shot from the Steam Store page for Things Too Ugly. On the left, it shows a mysterious black and white picture, unrecognizable and zoomed in, creepy and stringy congested lines. On the right, the Things Too Ugly title card. Text reads, Clock in at Terebro Inc. for the night shift in 1986. Protect the companies legacy as Risk Assessment Data Processor. Equipped with era specific tech, navigate through archived narratives to shape the company's future. Date TBA.
A GIF style video looping retro ascii text in black and white. Various styles of typography flash and slide across the screen. Text reads, "Professor Space Games, Baltoro Games. Clock in for the night shift. Things Too Ugly. PC/Consoles. Wishlist on Steam."
A dark and moody digital painting of a bend in the muddy Mississippi River. The night sky has a shining moon reflecting on the water. The trees line the edge of the water to the horizon, and a factory with glowing red lights is visible in the middle.
A page of a book that says, "The political function of science fiction is not merely to forecast the day after tomorrow, but to make us aware about the problems we have imagining it." -Peio Aguirre, "Semiotic Ghosts, Scientist Fiction and Historicism" 2011.
Dark water fills the image. A computer and office supplies are scattered around the left side. Files, photos, coffee mug, radio, pencils float around the image. Text reads, "Things Too Ugly" with logos for Professor Space Games and Baltoror Games.
A white person's hand resting up on a tiny sketchbook with ambiguous red writing in it. A postcard with illegible text and red pens clutter the left side of the image.
Pencil sketch of a suspension bridge. It's cropped and zoomed in on the structure in a textured hatching style. The moon looms over the bridge and water.
Pencil doodles of various small items scattered around a page of paper. Paper clips, floppy disk, stapler, fish hooks, a cylinder, the famous 90s shaped "s", and the phrase, "file hoggin!"
Blurry, grainy, black and white photo of a landscape. A pond with scraggly trees reflecting in the still water. Text overlay says, "Things Too Ugly" and becomes distorted and crooked. Logos at the bottom for Professor Space Games, Baltoror Games, San Francisco Frozen Film Festival, and Southern Fried Gaming Expo.
A window looks over the river, bridge, and moon at night. Text reads, "Mississippi River, 1986, Things Too Ugly twists and experimental narrative within a challenging puzzle game. Wielding retro tech, vintage aesthetics, nostalgia, and environmental horror, this game delivers a tense, interactive story.
Orange butterfly on pink sedum flower
Horizontal stack of books top to bottom: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, The King in Yellow, Ten Planets, Science Fiction, Starry Messenger, Vibrant Matter, Queer Games Avant Garde, The Skin of the Film, Swink, Principles of Game Audio and Sound Design, Birds. Partial drawing of a tree on paper on the right.
Dark green background with a putrid moon on the right. Text reads, "clock in for the night shift at Terebro Laboratories, a division of Terebro Incorporated, 1959-1986.
Dark muddy water. A yellow handheld radio float on the right glowing through the water. On the left, the words Things Too Ugly hover, and then Baltoro Games and Professor Space Games logos are underneath.
Video trailer for Things Too Ugly. Flashes of game content, glitchy, dark and dated tone. Images show inside a wood-paneled office looking at the desk, a calendar blotter, and files of paperwork. The camera zooms in on the terminal to show typed puzzle questions in pixel fonts, a handheld radio, a GPS, and black and white photos. The photographs are cropped closely; parts and fragments of unidentifiable textures.