A Story About My Uncle
Fair · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $3.92, only fair at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $4.84/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c-compatible, SM 3.0-compatible, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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...
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.94. That was February 2016. 96 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 7 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $3.92, a level the record has reached 85 times.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 ($3.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Munin ($4.99, scores 61).
Critics scored it 73. Players sit 19 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 524 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 1,627 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
3.1 hours to finish it, 9 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
15% start to 7% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A fun platformer. A friend of mine had recommended this to me over 10 years ago lmao. I was so bad at the game, I never got to finishing it and just rage quit several times. Finally got around to playing it and I don't know if it's the age or just me, but I finally had enough patience to finish it. Did help me realize one thing though, I suck at platformers and should not play them for my own sanity. Would I...
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A Story About My Uncle scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/278360/a-story-about-my-uncleThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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