A Story About My Uncle

AdventureIndiePlatformPuzzle
A Story About My Uncle
Gameplay Trailer (1/3)
IDs
IDSteam
7211278360
73
Critic rating
7.0
User rating
Summary

A Story About My Uncle is a non-violent First-Person platform adventure game built in the Unreal Engine. It is a story about a boy who searches for his lost uncle and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement through the world in A Story About My Uncle is a crucial part of its core gameplay, focusing on swinging yourself through caverns with a grappling hook mechanic 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 unraveling slowly before you.

Storyline

The game is told as a bedtime story that a father is telling his daughter. When the father was young, his biggest dream was to follow his uncle Fred on his many adventures around the world. When the uncle one day disappears, the boy decides to go after him and ends up in another world. With help from his uncle’s inventions, he traverses beautiful underground caves, uncovers clues to his uncle’s whereabouts and meets fantastical creatures that help him on his journey. The further the boy goes into the caves, the deeper the mystery gets. Where had uncle Fred gone, and why had he left so suddenly?

Developers
Gone North Games
Publishers
Coffee Stain Studios
Genres
AdventureIndiePlatformPuzzle
Platforms
LinuxMacPC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes
Single player
Perspectives
First person
Keywords
another worldatmosphericbow and arrowbreaking the fourth wallcheckpointscollectiblescompact discdarknessdescendants of other charactersdigital distributioneaster eggfalling objectfalling sequencefirst-person platformingfloating islandgame referencegrappleice stageinvented languagelevel selectionmale protagonistmotion blurmoving platformsnon-player characteroptional objectivepolygonal 3dpop culture referencesecret areaself-referential humorsnowsprinting mechanicssteamsteam achievementssteam cloudsteam trading cardstime trialsunlockablesvideo game characters that play video gamesvoice actingwasd movementwhite noise

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