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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 04/02/2025

It's true! Things Too Ugly is out now! Short, puzzley, and full of corporate secrets. 😬 📑⌨️ Thanks for sharing!!! #steamgame #xboxgame #switchgame

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 02/02/2025

Live right now! WadeBox is working the night shift for Terebro Inc, and you can, too. Hop in to help solve puzzles and protect the company's legacy on Twitch! 📂🔎📸 #teamwork #puzzlegame #steamgame

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Tachiyomi @tachiyomi01.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

... you can follow some of the dev we talked about if you want ! Things Too Ugly @professorspacegames.com Cryptical Path @oldskullgames.bsky.social Mindwave @holohammer.com (autosubtitles on youtube are fine if you want to understand some french horror games amateurs talking about your game)

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TJ Denzer @johnnychugs.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Thank you to everyone that tuned into Things Too Ugly on Indie-licious! This was a very interesting headscratcher. Lots of details to read very carefully as you solve the puzzles. Try it out for yourself! It's out now! #indiegame #indiedev @baltorogames.bsky.social

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TJ Denzer @johnnychugs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

On this week's Indie-licious, we're clocking into TEREBRO INC. in Things Too Ugly to do some risk assessment! Tune in as we go live with this very normal business sim and do our best to keep the company afloat (or help it sink). #indiegame #indiedev @baltorogames.bsky.social

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 25/01/2025

Oh, wow! Thanks so much for playing and for writing a review of Things Too Ugly! 🗂️📸📋❤️

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 25/01/2025

Thanks for sharing Things Too Ugly!!! @indiegameaday.bsky.social 🖤💾 The company archive is waiting.

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 17/01/2025

Thank you for playing, and for such a thoughtful and thorough review! 🤗 Check out @gamespew.com if you're curious about Things Too Ugly! #puzzlegame #steamgame #indiedevs #shortgames

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Nerd♥️Geek - Show Us Your #IndieGame!! ➡️ PAX East @nerdlovesgeek.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

#LIVE ❤️ with #ThingsTooUgly from @professorspacegames.com and @baltorogames.bsky.social Welcome to TEREBRO INC, here you're family... 📺 STREAM: Twitch.tv/NerdLovesGeek #IndieGames #IndieDevs #SupportSmallStreamers

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 16/01/2025

Thank you @illyriastreams.bsky.social for playing and sharing Things Too Ugly! This will surely be a great guide for anyone stuck on a puzzle! 🦇 #illyriastreams #illyriaisgreater #twitchstreamer #walkthrough

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 08/01/2025

A countdown appears when I google my game Things Too Ugly. How exciting, and I'm so nervous! 8 days!!!! 😱 Coming to you: store.steampowered.com/app/2848750/... #puzzlegame #shortgame #nightshift #corporatelabor #psychologicalhorror #pointandclick #mystery #indiedevs

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.

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 05/01/2025

Things Too Ugly is on Steam and consoles January 16th, 2025. You're stuck working the night shift for a natural resources company. Your job is to examine records from past decades- you read, test new software, and move on. Right? #mystery #puzzle #psychologicalhorror #storyrich #indiedevs

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Illyria 🦇 @illyriastreams.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Kevin was gracious enough to select me to be one of the content creators to receive an early copy of the game, AND LET ME TELL YOU... YOU'RE GONNA LOVE IT! It's short (took me 3.5 hours to complete), but it was very good! I didn't expect the story to go that way 😳 BUY IT & SEE!!

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 04/01/2025

I started making this on a holiday in late 2022. I didn't know if I would finish, or if anyone would play it, or if it was just an exercise. For #indiedevs, it's special to recognize when a project sparks and gains momentum. I hope players experience the care and spirit in which this was crafted.

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 screenshot from the game, Things Too Ugly. It's an old, vintage, retro office space with wood paneling, and it's poorly lit. A chunky computer monitor with a bulky keyboard and intercom are centered in the frame. The monitor is black with white text that reads, "Terebro Laboratories." On the right, a UI element hovers in space next to the monitor so players can "log in" to the computer. It says, Veri-Fi Risk Assessment and Management Software. Please await your supervisors instructions. User Id, Passcode, and Shift Code are empty and waiting for the player to enter correct answers.

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 02/01/2025

Thank you, GameSpew! If you're looking for a short game this month, the Things Too Ugly launch day is just around the corner! 💾 ⏰✨ #indiedev #pointandclick

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2025

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome…

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Our Town | 📰 Discover, Write, Deliver. @ourtownofficial.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! Entering into 2025 with new beginnings and determination to make this one count. 🎉🎊 Trying to cheer up Our Town's Donovan the construction worker with a more...cheerful approach to the year. 😅 #newyear #indiedev #gamedev

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 01/01/2025

Wishlist Things Too Ugly for January 16th launch! It's a short game with a timely narrative. It's wild to see it fully come to life after all this time, and I hope people enjoy it. 🤗 #newyearnewgames #pointandclick #gamedev #indiegame Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2848750/...

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.

Text reads: Thing Too Ugly. As a Terebro Inc. risk assessment and management data processor, you protect the company's legacy. Set against the Mississippi River in 1986, Things Too Ugly twists experimental narratives within a challenging puzzle game. Wielding retro technologies, nostalgic aesthetics, and environmental horror, Things Too Ugly deliveries a tense, interactive story. In your antiquated workspace, you navigate instruments and sift through documents illuminated by the incandescent bulb of a desk lamp and the moonlight. Static crackles through the tunes playing on a portable radio as you parse data. Unusual diagrams and photos draw you in as you cull eerie details and archived files.

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 01/01/2025

Things Too Ugly, set in 1986, features this chunky wood veneer keyboard with a hefty monitor and high-tech intercom. Unfortunately, corporate has set the intercom to work only one way- and your boss is calling. #beepbeepbeep #interfacehorror #corportatelabor #puzzlegame #gamedev #steamgame

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.

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 27/12/2024

Wishlist Things Too Ugly to experience the story day 1!!!! It's a short, #storyrich #puzzlegame exploring #corporatelabor, rurality, analog ephemera, and psychological horror. Image: @gamespew.com list of games coming 2025! store.steampowered.com/app/2848750/... www.gamespew.com/2024/12/most...

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.

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 27/12/2024

This is amazing!! 🥺🤗 Thank you @gamespew.com for including Things Too Ugly on this stellar list. With release in a few short weeks, I'm absolutely on the edge of my seat! Excited to share this game and the story with everyone. 💾 ⏰ #narrativegame #pointandclick #puzzlegame

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Illyria 🦇 @illyriastreams.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I am so excited for TTU to release next month! I'm going to have so much fun digging through stuff! 🔍

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 16/12/2024

Company policy prohibits disclosure of confidential information- internal documents, proprietary technology, and personal identification details. #ThingsTooUgly #encrypted #decode #corporatelabor #tablethis #wishlistonsteam #puzzlegame store.steampowered.com/app/2848750/...

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 15/12/2024

Things Too Ugly is in a 1986 corporate office. You're stuck at your desk for the night shift- digging through files, listening to your boss, and passing the time. You must stay put, but the environment is loaded with history, stories, and meaning. #puzzlegame #indiedev #corporations #labor #rurality

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."

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 15/12/2024

“At the risk of sounding pretentious, the medium is the message,” she [Kasurinen] said. This article is a fascinating and timely read about a curious game directly responding to human dynamics. Off I go to play this today.

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The excellent Middle Ages in the Modern World conference is back next year, and we're taking a strand on Medievalist Games! We've got a particular focus on 'Temporalities'. Call for Papers deadline 10 January for event 24-26 June at Kings College London. middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...

Call for Papers for strand on 'Temporalities' in the Middle Ages in Computer Games headed with image of green clothed swordsman falling through white void inhabited only by stylised clock faces. Text of call available here: https://middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcements/call-for-papers-mamg-mamo-2025/

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mike @schneider.coffee · 03/12/2024

the amount of detail in the @thinkygames.com games database is astounding. finding some cool stuff to check out in here. what an incredible resource

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Explore the Thinky Games database

Find amazing games that encourage careful thinking over precise execution — for fans of puzzles, problem solving, and logical reasoning.

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MatGost @matgost.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Earlier this year, I floated the idea of editing a "Quiet Horror" anthology. People seemed to love the idea. Well, it's happening... We open for submissions in the new year. I can't wait to read your stories. More details: matgost.substack.com/p/submission... Please share far and wide!!!

The Whispering Gallery
An Anthology of Quiet Horrors
Open call for submissions
We want your slow burners, your creeping dread, your atmospheric hauntings, your weird and your unsettling.
Mood over gore. Chills over spatter.
500-2,500 words

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Happy Black Friday! Here are some awesome indie video games that you should buy for your friends, family, and enemies www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Ten of This Year’s Best Indie Video Games

Big-budget games get most of the attention, but this year was full of smaller games that are worth your time

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 29/11/2024

Things Too Ugly is coming out on January 16th, 2025, but my work isn't done! I'm still busy in this universe- more to come soon! 😉 🤐

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.

White pixel font on black background says Things Too Ugly.

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Xboxed In @xboxedin.com · 28/11/2024

Things Too Ugly Arrives on Xbox January 16th, 2025 Puzzle-solving and corporate secrets collide.

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Things Too Ugly Arrives on Xbox January 16th, 2025

Puzzle-solving and corporate secrets collide.

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 28/11/2024

It's real!!! 😭🤗 7 weeks from now, Things Too Ugly is all yours. January 16th, 2025. Please wishlist if this is your kind of game! store.steampowered.com/app/2848750/... #indiegames #steamgame #gamedev #consolegame #storyrich #puzzlegame

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."

Screenshot from the Things Too Ugly Steam page. Text reads, Things Too Ugly, Professor Space Games and Baltoror Game, January 16th, 2025. Clock in at Terebro Inc. for the night shift in 1986. Protect the company's legacy as Risk Assessment Data Processor. Equipped with era specific tech, navigate obscured narratives to shape the company's future.

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 28/11/2024

💾 Things Too Ugly ⏰ PC & Consoles: January 16th, 2025 *Hey, are you awake in there?* Clock in for the night shift and solve puzzles as you dredge the company archives. Corporate power. Labor. Time. Environment. Rurality. Science fiction. Wishlist link below. #shortgames #indiegame #gamedev

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 25/11/2024

Everyone, please stop what you're doing and go follow @pantspants.bsky.social if you value happiness even a little bit. If Gary Larson and I Think You Should Leave had a baby, I'd give it Pants World as its first book. #cartoon #humor #artbook #comic #illustration

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.

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Shahin Aliyev @mechaniqe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Part 1 of Unity Devs/Studios pack is full. Created new pack to accommodate other magicians! Pack: go.bsky.app/4C1SjKf If you are developing on Unity, reply to be added. Only devs/studios, please, can't fit games. Repost would be appreciated for awareness. #unity #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev

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Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com · 24/11/2024

Received the book, "Money, Games, Economies" in the mail! Here's my conference presention: Socio-Spatial Currencies of Dark Souls & Death Stranding with @appliedgames.bsky.social! 💰🫂 #darksouls #deathstranding #media #gamestudies #research #academia #conference youtu.be/lqm_cn3DerU?...

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FROG 2023 | Kevin Mercer | The Socio-Spatial Currency of Dark Souls & Death Stranding

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