![]() ![]() Developed by Gone North Games and published by Coffee Stain Studios. A Story About My Uncle is out now for PC.But while it suffers a bit from repetition, the detailed and imaginative world it creates, the mellow ambience and the gently told story all serve to create a meditative mood that compliments the gameplay well. A beautiful encounter in a dark cave with a worm with a giant eye is brilliantly done – you can only safely move when the worm shuts its eye for a few seconds.Ī Story About My Uncle doesn't feature the production values of the high-gloss Portal 2, nor the complexity, originality and variety of puzzles found there or in Antichamber. But it's not without "enemies" – that are handled brilliantly. Throughout, the game remains avowedly non-violent. But regular checkpoints and the fairytale sense of story, plus a fairly gentle intro section mean the game never feels tense or difficult – just occasionally head-scratchingly complex. ![]() The result is a puzzle platformer – you're constantly working out what combination of jumps and grapples will get you to the next floating distant bit of rock. At first you get callipers to wear on your legs that give you a huge jump, soon you get a grappling glove that draws you to anything within range (your uncle has helpfully carved glowing runes across the landscape to help you work out where to go next), and eventually you get rocket-boosting boots too. To traverse this fantastical world, the nephew initially borrows a power suit of the uncle, further augmenting it with contraptions the relative has left behind as you work through the game. Told as a bedtime story (like Princess Bride) to a sleepy child, this story sees the nephew following literally in the footsteps of an adventuring uncle, to visit a fantastical and distant land, populated by frog-people – living first in gloomy caverns with floating rocks, later in cloudy cities and icy fortresses. OS: OS X 10.7 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon X2, or equal at 1.6GHz or better Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 Storage: 2 GB available space Additional Notes: MacBook Pro 2011, iMac 2011, MacBook Air 2012 SteamOS + Linux OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Processor: 2. The story-line of the game is roughly four to six hours.Alongside such titles as Portal and Antichamber, A Story About My Uncle is led by puzzles, by grasping the world with a hand, or traversing through it, rather than shooting at it. Later on in the game, the player will find "jet-propelling boots" which "boost across greater distances". The player follows the "uncle" through the environment by using suits that feature "magical grappling hook and shock absorbers" which stop you from taking damage when landing. Then the story begins as narrator as a child version enters the "waste disposal dimension" to search for his uncle. A blackboard in the narrator's abandoned house tells he built a "waste disposal system" possibly powered by starlight. The uncle Fred is described as "a brilliant scientist – a whimsical and even-tempered version of Uncle Quentin from the Famous Five books". The game focuses on the narrator's uncle Fred, as the narrator tells a bedtime story to a small child. Played from a first-person perspective, the game is set around platformer set in a world of floating rocks. A Story About My Uncle was nominated for the Game of the Year award at the 2012 Swedish Game Awards.Ī Story About My Uncle is an adventure indie video game. According to review aggregator Metacritic, the game received "Mixed or average reviews". ![]() You will go on a long and very mysterious adventure through the mystical world. The game was "re-developed professionally" after the collaboration with Coffee Stain Studios.Ī Story About My Uncle is played in a first-person perspective and the player travels by using floating rocks. System requirements: OS: Windows XP Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Memory: 2 GB Video card: DirectX 9.0 Disk space: 2 GB A Story About My Uncle is an adventure platformer and first-person action game. ![]() It was initially developed by students of Södertörn University in 2012, with a full release in May 2014 for Microsoft Windows, and three years later for macOS and Linux. A Story About My Uncle is a 2014 indie adventure game by Gone North Games, and published by Coffee Stain Studios. ![]()
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