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A Story About My Uncle

2014 69 / 100 Adventure Indie Platform

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 wonder Show full summary

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel

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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?

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Studio & publishing

Developer: Gone North Games
Publisher: Coffee Stain Studios
Franchise: Standalone

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Modi: Single player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action, Fantasy, Science fiction

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Platform releases

Mac May 12, 2017
PC (Microsoft Windows) May 28, 2014
Linux May 12, 2017

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