This is a long review, so if you want a brief summary of why I recommend A Story About My Uncle skip to Results and read from there.

Gone North Games creates a thrilling first person platformer that offers a fantastic story with challenging gameplay. A Story About My Uncle is a fine example of a casual, yet challenging platformer experience filled with beautiful environments.

Story:
A Story About My Uncle involves the story of a boy, most likely a teenager, who is alone in his uncles cabin surrounded by tundra. The game starts as the boy recalls a story about his uncle and the interesting life he led. As you play through the experience you slowly end up living a wonderful adventure of your own while learning about the amazing world your uncle has created. As you explore through caverns and floating islands you meet interesting characters who help piece together the gaps within your uncle’s life while forming your own story.

Campaign:
Overall the campaign is a decent length, you’ll probably get anywhere from four (4) to eight (8) hours of gameplay out of this. If you want to find every secret you probably could spent a significant amount of additional time playing the game. The campaign offers a variety of different environments, but ultimately it is relatively repetitive. You’ll go through caves, some floating islands, then caves with floating islands.
The achievements act as challenges for this game rather than progression points, so despite the game essentially just being the campaign you could go back and play the levels as challenges to get the achievements, but realistically this has no impact on the actual game itself.
The campaign is relatively easy, which perfectly suits the design and style of this game. You may die a couple times as you go through, but the smooth checkpoint placement and relatively simple puzzles make this game fun rather than annoying.

Gameplay:
As platformer FPS style games go this one is pretty good with the controls and hit boxes. You’ll find yourself rarely thinking that you should have landed somewhere you didn’t or hit something you would have missed. As the game is an FPS you don’t have to deal with poor camera elements as you could see in an third person platformer, but with this same light you’ll also find you may need to have your sensitivity up high if you need to make a quick turn-around.
The game plays off you having a power suit that adds functions throughout the game, but honestly you’ll find that you essentially only unlock three abilities and they are all pretty basic. You’ll get the ability to jump higher, the ability to propel forward, and a grappling hook. You’ll essentially be using the same abilities throughout the game to solve relatively similar puzzles.

Results:
I’d recommend A Story About My Uncle for anyone looking for a relatively casual, yet immersive experience. The gameplay is somewhat similar to mirrors edge in that you will be running and jumping, but focuses more on utilizing your power suits special abilities to propel yourself through puzzles and into unique places. I personally grabbed this game when it was 75% off, and would recommend doing the same; but, if you absolutely love platformer fps then this is the game for you and you might as well pay full price.

Pros:
+Decent graphics and visuals
+Relaxing soundtrack
+Good story
+Platformer FPS with some puzzle elements
+Good check point distance (making dying less annoying)
+Decent length

Cons:
-Relatively repetitive gameplay style
-Repeating environments