A grappling hook turns the search for a missing uncle into a sequence of sweeping swings and platforming routes. A Story About My Uncle suits players after a story-led single-player adventure without violence-focused gameplay; the Steam PC version also supports full controller use and Steam Cloud. At ≈ $0.84 from Kinguin, consider whether this compact journey fits your plans now. The rating, 92% from 12,187 reviews, adds useful context.At $14.99 on Steam, the offer from Kinguin is ≈ $14.15 cheaper for the same edition.
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01About A Story About My Uncle
Search for a missing uncle as a boy cast into an unfamiliar world. Use his mysterious inventions to swing with a grappling hook, cross platforming routes, explore strange scenery and find clues. Fantastical creatures and their stories shape the journey.Steam player rating: 92% positive from 12,187 reviews.Released May 28, 2014.
Credits
Developer
Gone North Games
Publisher
Coffee Stain Publishing
Steam player reviews
92%positiveVery Positive12,187 Steam reviews
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Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19
02Before you buy
Mode and controls
The Steam PC version supports single-player, full controller support and Steam Cloud.
Language
English audio is available. English, French, Italian, German and Spanish have subtitles.
03Frequently asked questions
What is the story about?
You play a boy searching for his missing uncle in an unfamiliar world.
How does traversal work?
A grappling hook enables long swings and jumps; movement and platforming are central.
Does it focus on combat?
No. The game emphasizes non-violent play and story atmosphere.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviews
Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
Great Game 8/10, kind of buggy with the grappler at times but great atmosphere.
Spoiler Alert Ending Theory
Just wanted to post my take on the ending. Fred was known to be able to climb mountains at the age of 52. Theres a newspaper on the wall in the epilogue that says that.
Fred probably died during a climbing accident by falling into a crevice or similar. His body has never been found (hence the memorial).
The story is the story the kid made up in his head to imagine how his uncle could have survived, he viewed him as a genius (he was expert in quantum physics as a wall says), and imagined that in his ice tomb he survived with a mystical travel device, that he was living with happy and nice creatures in a small paradise inside the mountains... He imagined himself traveling in that world. just like his uncle did, to find him again, but, in the end, lose him forever (admit his death).
That's why you don't get to open the locker in the end, and there is no launch pad. That story never happened.
That's also why the glowing message in the final ice room before you quit your uncle is translated "Acceptance".
Other secret words, once translated say "Denial" (portal) and in caverns "Anger". These are the common steps when you are in mourning (in psychology: shock -> denial -> culpability -> anger -> sadness -> acceptanceShow moreShow less
2.9 hours at review1,204 people found this helpful
Received for free
Not recommendedSteam player
I don't know the exact words to describe my feelings with this game, but I'll try my best.
First question: do I recommend this game? Eh, maybe. It really depends on what you want out of it.
Do you expect a great story and world to get lost in? Don't buy this.
Do you expect a fun mechanic, albeit one that isn't explored to its full potential? Buy this.
Do you expect a well-designed physics puzzle game akin to Portal and Quantum Conundrum? Don't buy this.
Did you like the grappling in Batman: Arkham Asylum and wish somebody would make a full game out of it? Buy this.
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PROS:
- Really good graphics.
- Fun easter eggs, a lot of neat nods to Goat Simulator (another game by these devs).
- Fun mechanics when the devs actually decide to use them.
- Being short, it's a great timewaster for the afternoon.
- Collectibles, albeit 25 of them total.
- There is SOME story, although I found most of the characters unlikeable and the sense of "purpose" to be all ove rthe place. In this game, your goal is to find your uncle, who got lost in some alternate dimension(?). You find him, you talk for about a minute, and then he sends you home and you never see him again.
- The sound design is top-notch, except for the voice acting. It can really do without all that.
CONS:
- Puzzles are too obvious, you're in for one of those "follow the shiny markers" Q.U.B.E. type adventures.
- Mechanics sometimes just don't work. God forbid you click too fast.
- Items come and go. You'll see game reviews say things overstay their welcome, but this game does the exact opposite. Hell, one part rewards you by giving back an item they took away for no reason.
- I seriously hate the characters in this game, all of them are either annoying or not very smart.
- Just when you think you might like this game, it ends. It's only about 2 and half hours of gameplay if you don't plan to 100% it, not worth the price.
- Unlockables just step on top of eachother. You get to change your laser color, and then it doesn't matter because it's replaced with a goat tongue.
- This game explains nothing. I don't know where I am, I don't know what anything is, I don't understand the logic of this world. There's no lore, and no expansions that might explain the lore.
- I still don't know what the hell that skeleton wants.
- While all-around a pretty decent game, minor negatives add up and ruin the experience for me. Is it bad? No. Would I recommend it? Only if you REALLY wanna play it.
This game has been haunting me for weeks now. I don't think I like it, but it was good enough for me to go ahead and finish it. If it's on sale or free again, go ahead and try it, I guess. This isn't Might No. 9 "dear god WHY" bad, this is just "clearly an indie game that bit off a bit more than it could chew" mediocre. I'm voting "no" becuase I wouldn't play it again, but clearly a lot of people enjoy this game for the pros I listed. Up to you, man.Show moreShow less
3 hours at review191 people found this helpful
Received for free
RecommendedSteam player
free on humble bundle rnShow moreShow less
0.8 hours at review553 people found this helpful
Received for free
Not recommendedSteam player
Hmm, I have mixed feelings about this game.
The visuals are stunning (I play on max settings so don't know what the graphics are like on low/medium). The world is just beautiful (the foliage in particular) and as far as platform games go, the idea of this game is quite fun.
However, there are two main downfalls of this game:
1) It is extremely short! With only six levels taking approximately 15-20 minutes (if that) to complete the first time round. The majority of people writing reviews have completed the game in just 2 or 3 hours.
2) The game gets VERY repetitive very quickly; the gameplay is almost (if not) identical in each level and there isn't a large enough variety of modes to support more types of gameplay, multiplayer for example.
So if you love games made to look beautiful, by all means try this game out, but don't expect to ever play it again after your first completion of the game (I who have OCD about getting every achievement for every game am even struggling to find the motivation to play this game again for as long as it takes).
But if you want a game you won't get bored of easily, has masses of content and you'll want to play for more than a few days (which is the majority of gamers), I wouldn't recommend this game.Show moreShow less
7 hours at review159 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Leafy sent me here
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3 hours at review517 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
After all the very positive reviews (currently 92% positive) I really expected something good, but I was really disappointed at the end. Let me tell you why:
I expected a (very) good story at least, because this was mentioned by many players in their reviews.
To be honest the story is rather basic and too short to be very touching or thrilling. If you would cut out all story parts of the game and make a video about all the narration and conversation parts it would barely exceed 10-15 minutes. It's sadly not a (story) gem like e.g. "To the Moon" or "Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons".
The gameplay itself was ok, but very frustrating at some parts, mostly the final level.
Pros:
+ nice environment & design
+ gameplay is ok, but repetitive
Cons:
- Disappointing story
- Very short about 2-3 hours walkthrough (isn't that important for me)
- Achievements are very hard (most players will finish the game with 0 achievements)
I would only recommend it, buying during a sale if you are looking for a short filler.Show moreShow less
3.1 hours at review100 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
I remember myself writing an E-Mail to the developers after finishing the game where I asked if there will be more. I was emotionally taken by this game. The world is wonderful, the story is really good and the characters are just likeable (of course it's not a big complex game, but it doesn't have to, to be impactful). Do yourself a favor, take 3 hours of your life, grab something to eat and play this game. It's totally worth it.Show moreShow less
6.1 hours at review333 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
I wanted to try this game for years, and now that Humble gave it away for free, I finally got to play it - and I was underwhelmed to say the least. I'll try to detail why.
It's not a terrible game, by any means, but it's just so...mediocre? I feel bad downvoting a game I received for free, but I try to review honestly and the game just was mediocre. I wish I could give a neutral review, but Steam still doesn't allow that.
First of all, it is a terribly short game with an uninteresting story. It tries to be deep and emotional, and I am sure there's a hidden meaning, but the game does a rather bad job at conveying it. The entirety of the game will take you about 3 hours, give or take. It would be way faster if not for the annoying controls.
The story goes like this: you tell your daughter a bedtime story about how your uncle went missing when you were a kid, so you went to look for him in his house and got teleported/launched(?) to...somewhere? Another world? The game never clarifies where this "world" is, it could be another planet, underground, in the sky. Maybe it's just a dream? The game never touches on that - you're just there and that's that, deal with it. In your uncle's house, you find a cool suit that you put on before you get launched away. With it you can jump and also grapple.
That is what you'll be doing all throughout the game - jump and grapple throughout 5 different levels, all about 30 minutes long. I'd be fine with this as a general game mechanic, but the problem is that it is terribly inconsistent. While not the worst controls ever, there is much to be annoyed with, a small pile of grievances.
First of all, you have two main "jump moves": High jump and long jump. High Jump is fine, doesn't cover much distance, but you can adjust your distance while you jump, which feels intuitive. However, you can not do that for the long jump; once you jump, you're locked in, which makes some jumps way too precise and many will end with you falling off the platforms.
The grapple is a whole other problem. There is sadly no real sense of speed in this game, despite the description claiming otherwise. Many times you won't grapple as fast as you think you will, and then fall. Or you think you're in range to grapple a platform, but then you can't and fall. The main problem with the grapple, however, is that it isn't really a grapple, like you'd know it from other games, but more of a mixture between a rope used to cover a gap (other games would use vines or similar for that; you've seen it plenty of times, I'm sure) and a grappling hook used to close up to objects.
What that means is that, whenever you try to grapple to a floating rock to get to the platform on the other side, you will try to swing under it; but at the same time you will rapidly close into the rock and smash into it, leading to you awkwardly trying to let go mid flight to barely scrape past it. It's clunky, unintuitive and it happens SO often since you have to do that exact thing dozens of times each level. The game isn't hard by any means; just frustrating, thanks to the level design and controls. And then sometimes it just works, for no real reason.
What you're left with is just a mediocre experience. Controls that sometimes work, level sections that are sometimes fun, sometimes frustrating (partly due to controls, partly due to level design) and a mediocre story with a rather bad, unfulfilling ending. I get that this game doesn't try to be anything big, but even in it's small scope, I feel like it could've done so much better.
However, I played way worse and, aside from a few frustrations, you can get to the end just fine. Some sections are fun. For free or on sale it's an okay way to spend a few hours, but I still find it hard to recommend it.
I give it a personal rating of 4.5/10.
Edit: due to some stupid comments I turned them off entirely. You are free to discuss my opinion (yes, it is just an opinion and not fact) about the game with me, but if the entirety of the comment section consists of "git gud lol", I don't see much room for discussion. Maybe I suck, but this is just my opinion of a game that is not all bad and has plenty of good reviews as well. If you want to discuss it with me, you are free to message me; I would welcome it! Thank you very much :w:Show moreShow less
3.1 hours at review94 people found this helpful
Received for free
RecommendedSteam player
A Story About My Uncle is a first person physics based platformer. The main character reads a bedtime story to his daughter, about his (You guessed it) Uncle Fred as you play through the game. You explore the deep caves and strange world as you try to find him. You are there to answer the many questions you have about your uncle and what he has done.
Good:
- Pretty and unique Environment
- New ideas
- Interesting story delivery
- Sense of freedom
- Very fun to parkour around
- Nice soundtrack
Bad:
- Tedious at times
- Quite short (<4 Hours)
- Little replayability
- Can be frustrating
- Dialogue is meh
Gameplay: (Terrible) (Very Bad) (Bad) (Okay) (Good) (Very Good) (Amazing)
Graphics - Okay
Soundtrack - Good
Atmosphere - Okay
Controls - Good
Overall Gameplay: Good
Difficulty - Not too hard
Replay Value - Very low
Worth - £5
Overall Rating: It's a very fun and interesting game with fluid movement. It has a pretty environment and a good storyline, even if its kind of strange. If you enjoyed games like mirror's edge, I recommended playing this one through, just for the fun of swinging around like a crazy man. Buy on sale!Show moreShow less
2.6 hours at review276 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
First, the pros of this game: the graphics are honestly beautiful (there were moments when I paused simply to enjoy the scenery), the story is sweet and enjoyable (you get pieces of the story as you advance, and you are just as interested as the in-game audience), and the general atmosphere of the game is pleasant (no violence, and any strange-looking characters don't stay around long).
The cons of this game: the mechanics can be wonky; if you overshoot your jump or mistime a grapple, you may be repeating a section over and over and over; the death/fall scenes are pretty lengthy and cannot be skipped; the checkpoints are not always close together, so you may have to start rather far back (multiple times).
If you are not good at these types of parkour and/or physics-based games that involve timing your jumps/grapples very well, or if you get frustrated having to repeat decently long sections multiple times if you fail, then you will not like this game. All the positive reviews led me to believe it would be a simple, enjoyable game, but it was so frustrating at times that I did not actually enjoy it.Show moreShow less
4.9 hours at review77 people found this helpful
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