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Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Telling Lies is a mystery, fmv and thriller game
developed by Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid and Furious Bee Limited
and published by Annapurna Interactive.
Released on August 23rd 2019 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 1,251 reviews of which 776 were positive and 475 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.1 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 18.49€ on Steam, but you can find it for 4.59€ on Instant Gaming.
The Steam community has classified Telling Lies into these genres:
Mystery
FMV
Thriller
Detective
Story Rich
Adventure
Indie
Realistic
Investigation
Crime
Interactive Fiction
Simulation
Exploration
Point & Click
Puzzle
Open World
Nonlinear
Singleplayer
Atmospheric
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 2.0 GHz Dual Core Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce 8800 or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: OS X Yosemite
- Processor: 2.00 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 4 GB available space
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This is a really intriguing and interesting game. The combination of the minimal gameplay style plus the (many many) FMV sequences is somehow very compelling. There aren't many games I'm willing to start a spreadsheet for but this is one! I'm about halfway through my first playthrough, and I can't stop myself from playing! Also it's fun to see actors I recognise from films and TV :) I still don't really know how I end up submitting the 'answers' but I have faith that at some point, the game will let me know. I got this on deep discount, which made it excellent VFM, though I totally understand the list price, seems fair.
After the brilliant Her Story, Sam Barlow went and made an even stronger follow-up game, solidly confirming himself as the GOAT of the FMV genre and continuing to prove that creativity and FMV are compatible. Strongly recommended, even if his masterpiece of a third game, Immortality, is the true must play out of them - honestly, just play all three in any order.
This game suffers from a few design issues that really drag the experience down. The absence of a progress bar to more effectively scrub through videos was a massive mistake, sometimes achievements had a hard time firing, and overall the format made the gameplay drag. I can't give this game a bad review though. The acting was great across the board, the characters were compelling, and the story was interesting and engaging. It was worth suffering through the poorly designed UI and long, awkward silences to experience it.
I loved this. It's making some small mechanic changes from Her Story to build on those mechanics and hit on what this game is doing differently: where that game was focused on diving into one person's story, this one is interested in how one person's story entangles with the stories of others. Thoughts on mechanics for this and Her Story that aren't exactly spoilers since you find them out early, but I think the discovery of those mechanics is worth experiencing fresh: With Her Story, if a text string was found in a video and it was one of the first 5 videos with that text match, that unlocked the video and put you in at the start of it. The videos themselves were mostly very short (usually under 45s) and in series, based on a premise that someone had already sliced up the larger videos into meaningful small segments, so the challenge was in figuring out terms that would be repeated or emergent later in the story, and finding your way into less common text strings to dig later. The mechanics push you to find out what happens next, and to find the details in between what you know. With Telling Lies the text string search and first 5 video cutoff is still present, but the videos are whole segments in the form of one side of two-sided calls, and intentional recordings (usually 3-5 minutes, some nearing 10 minutes); searching for a particular piece of text jumps you to that part of the video where it is present, allowing you to backtrack and fast forward within that video for context (something I missed at first, oops). What's new is that you're usually looking at one side of a call, getting the hints on how to find the other side. The mechanics best equip you to find out other people's perspectives; finding out what happens next and in between is also there, happening along the way. The way you think about likely useful search terms has to be changed a bit. A non-spoilered mechanics note for this game, because I started this assuming the mechanics were identical to Her Story: in this game you can rewind a video to before your start point, and fast-forward through the points where no one is talking. Yes, it would be nice to one-click jump to the start of the video, but I think the absence of such a feature highlights that the point here isn't to unlock a series of videos like in Her Story; it's to sift through those videos for the important parts, and not all of what you'll see is important . As with many sequels, if you're looking for exactly the same game but more, this isn't it. It's definitely doing different things. If you liked the mechanics of the first and are flexible to those different things then I think this is rewarding, and the rest comes down to how much the story and characters compel you to learn more.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Telling Lies is currently priced at 18.49€ on Steam.
No, Telling Lies is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 18.49€ on Steam.
Yes, Telling Lies received 776 positive votes out of a total of 1,251 achieving a rating of 6.06.
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Telling Lies was developed by Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid and Furious Bee Limited and published by Annapurna Interactive.
Yes, Telling Lies is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Telling Lies is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
No, Telling Lies is not playable on Linux.
No, Telling Lies is not playable on Steam Deck.
No, Telling Lies is not playable on Steam Machine.
No, Telling Lies does not support VR.
Telling Lies is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Telling Lies. Explore additional content available for Telling Lies on Steam.
No, Telling Lies does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Telling Lies does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Telling Lies is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Telling Lies.
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Developer
Sam Barlow,
Half Mermaid,
Furious Bee Limited
Publisher
Annapurna Interactive
Release
23 Aug 2019
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