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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 1,231 reviews of which 786 were positive and 445 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.2 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 4.62€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 2.73€ on Gamivo.

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 Singleplayer Nonlinear Drama Atmospheric

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System requirements

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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

User reviews & Ratings

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4 hours played
April 2026
After playing "Her Story", I decided to give this one a try and I'm glad I did. The production is miles better - I liked "Her Story", don't get me wrong, but the video and the general feel are much more professional in this one. The actors are good and the story is interesting. It's a more complex and longer game, which does make it a bit more difficult to finish in one go, and I think this detracts from the experience, because I see this as kind of an interactive film. I think there should be a way to rewind videos to the beginning with a button - having to do it manually feels clunky. And I think that the game, in general, could have been more streamlined and the fragments should have been shorter. I get what the author is trying to do - having to search for the truth hidden in the middle of sometimes irrelevant material feels like being an actual detective. But still, a bit too much. Despite these small shortcomings, I absolutely recommend this - especially to play with a friend or your significant other. It's fun to look for the pieces of the puzzle.
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8 hours played
Jan. 2026
after starting it and having no clue shortly followed by finishing the game i would say i enjoyed it. it sucks you in and the progress is subtle but enough to make you want to keep digging.
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7 hours played
Jan. 2026
Well, this game is exceptionally well-designed in terms of the acting, realism, and the very precise writing that's necessary to ensure the player uncovers the story gradually but reliably, but it's quite poorly designed in regard to the actual user experience. The worst part is that each clip is only one side of a conversation, so you have long stretches of time where the character is just staring silently at the camera. Some of the clips are pretty meaningless, as well. You can fast-forward through the videos, but if you try to grab your note app to write down a keyword, you lose your spot in the video, which is really annoying. Also, a keyword will take you to the precise part of the clip where that word is used, which necessitates rewinding through sometimes several minutes of footage to see the entire thing. So, I think LESS realism would have actually been optimal here. But, well, it's an interesting experience, and the story is interesting.
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1 hours played
Oct. 2025
Nice & interesting, with a running time of your average feature film and way better than many A-movies. HOWEVER, the idea of having to watch one side of a dialogue (with the actor reacting for 30s to the other side's responses you can't actually hear) is absurd. It should have been an obvious feature to enable "coupling" of two videos of identical length (once you track them down) and playing them simultaneously, to get the full back-and-forth between the actors. I kind of 'finished' it, with a few gaps in the plot left, but I don't care enough to replay or dig deeper, mostly due to the problem I mention above.
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17 hours played
July 2025
I recently complained to a friend about investigative games. Open-world private investigative work from the safety of my couch sounds wonderful, but game designers couldn't possibly implement that. The structural limitations of a constrained action set undermine any real sense of freedom. Instead of being the PI, I'm just watching one. Creator Sam Barlow has figured out if he not only limits the action set, but cripples it -- reduces it to a bare minimum -- somehow, ironically, the freedom is resurrected. That entire action set: (1)Search a video database using keywords. (2)Watch video. That's it. Like a proof of concept, I'd already enjoyed the smaller-scoped Her Story before I started this. Nonetheless the first hour was excruciating. Boring (albeit beautiful) people talking about boring things. With no "start at beginning of clip" function when searches dumped me into the middle of clips, forcing minutes wasted holding rewind buttons. And no way to combine the two videos containing opposite sides of a conversation, so I had to sit through each conversation twice. Then *poof* it's three hours later, and I'm a full-fledged PI. Or a despicable voyeur. Take your pick. I've mastered predicting the unheard party's responses to unlock both sides of every story. I've carefully curated a list of keywords for tactical digging. I'm hooked. None of this would work without great acting and writing. Both are top-notch. No big stars, but you might recognize the leads from underrated works like Halt and Catch Fire, Westworld, or tick, tick...Boom!. Aside from a mid-credits epilogue, the writing never strays into theatricality. The characters' reactions feel as candid (or appropriately coy) as you'd expect from found self-recorded video. It's the closest I've ever come to the thrill of investigation. Well, outside of creepy and regrettable social media stalking, but that's a story for another day.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Telling Lies is currently priced at 4.62€ on Steam.

Yes, Telling Lies is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 4.62€ on Steam.

Yes, Telling Lies received 786 positive votes out of a total of 1,231 achieving a rating of 6.22.
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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.

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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Telling Lies PEGI 16
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786
445
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Developer
Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid, Furious Bee Limited
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Release 23 Aug 2019
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