Indie

A Story About My Uncle

92% positive of 12,183 Steam reviews

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2014
Steam Deck: Verified
Known on: 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.

What sets it apart

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

What players say

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Indie

A Story About My Uncle

92% positive of 12,183 Steam reviews

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Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2014
Steam Deck: Verified
Known on: Steam, GOG

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

About the game

What sets it apart

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

What players say

Recommended
Leafy is here. The entire reason I bought this game. I still play it every now and then. It's kinda funny. I bought it because of some Youtuber I watched when I was younger, I stayed for the story and the emotions it made me feel. This funny little game that deserved a sequel but never got one. Made me cry. A story where you never hear your character utter a single word, but are guided through your adventure by a…
4.3 h played when written. 13 found it helpful.
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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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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. 2 found it helpful.
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