A Story About My Uncle
BANGER · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.96/hr
- ReviewsS
- 91% of 29,258
- Critics
- 73 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Narrative
Score at full price
Score today
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.1h
- To 100%
- 9.4h 3.0x the story
- Achievements
- 15
Price and sales
- Sales
- 98 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.94 February 2016
- Sale every
- 39d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 10 now
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
15% start to 7% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.94. That was February 2016. 98 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Yume Nikki (free, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats What Never Was (free, scores 84).
More about A Story About My Uncle
Critics scored it 73. Players sit 18 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 529 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 1,626 reviews written there were positive, against 91 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
A game from a time I was a teenager, I saw it on steam, decided to buy and replay it, get some achievements as well. I guess it was a mistake, it should have remained in the annals of my memory as something of the past, something nostalgic. The game did not age well visually, the story is a drag for children with unskippable cutscenes, level design is boring and simply having physics based grapple, in my opinion...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The physics is not great and it is way too difficult to be counted as "Casual". I did not have fun but that might just be because I am not great at 3D platformers. The art is fine, but there's no motivation in the story to keep me going with a not-fun platforming
Decent puzzle platformer game where you're told a cute/wholesome story. I cried a bit but that's not a tall bar for me.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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...
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
A Story About My Uncle scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/278360/a-story-about-my-uncleReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.