The Ugly Ducling

The Ugly Ducling is a block-based psychological horror and exploration game inspired by the children’s story “The Ugly Duckling.” You search different biomes for lost pages from the protagonist’s story while trying to survive in a procedurally generated open world with voxel terrain. The game uses a third-person controller.

Story

A baby swan hatches in a duck’s nest. Because he looks different from the other chicks, the ducks and other birds chase, offend and mistreat him. Tired of being humiliated, he flees and travels through several places, where others also treat him badly.

A peasant family eventually finds him and takes him in for the winter. After a few weeks, he goes to the lake and, seeking revenge for the humiliations caused by the duck mother’s children, kidnaps and psychologically tortures her.