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A Story About My Uncle

92% positive of 12,183 Steam reviews

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Released
2014
Steam Deck
Verified
Platforms
Steam, GOG

Made by Gone North Games. Published by Coffee Stain Publishing.

About the game

A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and freedom. Soar through a game world with a unique art style and a mysterious story that unravels before you.

Tagged by players

  • Adventure
  • Parkour
  • First-Person
  • Platformer
  • 3D Platformer
  • Short
  • Atmospheric
  • Story Rich
  • Puzzle
  • Fantasy
  • Sci-fi
  • Difficult

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Very Positive

What players say

  • Recommended
    Decent puzzle platformer game where you're told a cute/wholesome story. I cried a bit but that's not a tall bar for me.

    2.6 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Pretty short, endearing story about an uncle. Pretty interesting settings as well. Don't expect some complicated, psychological, mind-boggling plot. It's a chill swinging game.

    3 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    A game from a time I was a teenager, I saw it on steam, decided to buy and replay it, get some achievements as well. I guess it was a mistake, it should have remained in the annals of my memory as something of the past, something nostalgic. The game did not age well visually, the story is a drag for children with unskippable cutscenes, level design is boring and simply having physics based grapple, in my opinion,…

    5.9 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.

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