A Story About My Uncle is a game that sets up some particularly interesting gameplay and a premise for a simple albeit engaging story, and then fails to deliver on those marks due to its short playtime. You're presented with an interesting, imaginative world hidden within massive, sprawling caverns, and some sort of sci-fi electric grappling hook to explore it. Levels take the form of a (relatively linear) set of floating platforms and checkpoints, and you can use the grappling hook to traverse across them. It ends up allotting you with this very enjoyable set of tools to traverse the level, and the gameplay is particularly solid for a first-person platformer. The disappointing outcome is that the gameplay never gets the opportunity to evolve much. You see minor changes between each level which gives a feeling of progress and growth, but you get shunted as the game concludes only two hours in. It's incredibly disappointing as the gameplay never approaches a level of challenge or gives you the opportunity to string together creative forms of platforming. There are a few small sequences that require you to get more creative and skillful with the grappling, but they're few and far between. The story is an additional fatal flaw, as the curious and fantastic subterranean world of the game falls apart and fails to deliver on any worldbuilding that could make the levels more unique. It's certainly an enjoyable game but there's just...not enough of it. It's disappointing how little I have to say about this from a critical perspective.