A Story About My Uncle
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…
A Story About My Uncle is an adventure developed by Gone North Games, released 28 May 2014 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $3.00 at GamersGate. The main story takes about 4 hrs to finish.
What A Story About My Uncle is
A Story About My Uncle is an adventure game developed by Gone North Games and released in 2014. It was published by Coffee Stain Studios. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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?
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 15 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
A Story About My Uncle holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 68, across 161 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $3.00, that works out to about $0.75 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon X2, or equal at 1.6GHz or better, 2 GB RAM and DirectX 9.0c-compatible, SM 3.0-compatible. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.00 at GamersGate, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
A Story About My Uncle launched on 28 May 2014, within three weeks of Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order and Transistor. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for A Story About My Uncle yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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