Telling Lies on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 1,214 reviews of which 777 were positive and 437 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 3.73€ 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 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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Jan. 2025

This spiritual sequel to Her Story works well to build an immersive story that is well worth the klunky interface. It is an FMV game, so there aren't really any video game graphics to talk about. Apart from the interface, it can only be judged in terms of purely cinematic criteria. Yet, everything works to create a voyeur modern spy movie atmosphere. You would not think those videocalls were shot using traditional cameras and not just screen capture software. The music seems non-existent at first. There's a lot of tasty ambient silence with nothing but computer noises and muffled sounds from surrounding flats. Yet, the OST becomes more pronounced the further you go into the story. The main characters have their own motifs that greatly add to the emotional impact, from somewhat ironic and playfully tragic at the camgirl scenes to downright creepy. The story and script are superb. There isn't much going on per se, the magic is in the details. The characters are extremely well-detailed and every storyline well-developed. This is mostly mature content, but not because of sex of violence - those are far and in-between - but because the story is built on adult fears. The fear of estrangement from your child and wife, the pain of having to betray the trust of your beloved, the anxiety of losing your way and identity and succumbing to madness. Not the stuff kids or even young adults could fully appreciate, not with so few action events going on. The gameplay is the weakest point of this game that WILL scare some people away. It is hard to believe how klunky such an ingenious project can be on the mechanical level. I feel inclined to add a short guide for best experience: bookmark every new video near the beginning, they will automatically be sorted by date. Open every new available video, but watch them in order if possible. Use the in-game note pad for names, events and unused keywords. Most videos come in pairs best watched together. The main gameplay consists in trying to come up with keywords for the paired video. You will probably not find all 170 clips without a guide, but at least 160 are very doable, Do not hesitate to view the ending once before completing the search. One last thing: do not hurry. This game is roughly designed to be completed over a week, like season of a TV show. Rushing it may spoil the experience. I was very hesitant about this game at first because of the interface, but in the end it sucked me in like few other media ever did. I felt like I was the one talking to all these characters and experiencing their fates. The climactic scenes for all the main characters (especially the camgirl and David) hit me like it was all real, leaving me staring at the screen blankly. True integration of Cinema Magic and video games. Unpopularily, I personally liked Telling Lies better than Her Story, though I have to lower the score for the poor interface. I highly recommend you give it a shot to see if it works for you as well. Final score: 7,7

Jan. 2025

Definitely longer and more tedious than Her Story, but it is pretty interesting. It has some nice new quality of life features, which Her Story would have benefited from.

Dec. 2024

Great amount of movies, ending little disappointing. Missing the twist ending that her story had. Anyway worth playing thumbs up!

Dec. 2024

Okay so, the game did leave me a bit confused on what exactly was happening fully, but I got the gist of it. I think it's worth playing when you're bored with time and patience to watch videos. You can eat or snack while playing lol. It's definitely left me not wanting to play it again because I don't think there is any replay value. Getting it for cheap, like a few bucks isn't bad.

May 2024

To start. If you played Her Story. This one is not as good as that one. With that said. There are 3 different endings as well as multiple story going on. I would say the reason this game gets bad reviews is 3 main reasons. 1. This one is more straight forward. 2. One sided conversations take some time to get use to. And trying to find the matching video. To the games credit when you catch on to the time and date stamps this is a little easier. And if you book mark every video and sort them by date. 3. And this is my biggest issue. Why the hell do I have to rewind a video to watch it? First off the game is all done on a PC so wtf? This is really annoying when my word finds a 7 minute video and my word is at the end of this video. Over all tho I did enjoy this game and its multiple story's. My take away is this. If you liked Her Story's game play style and would like a game where its not trying to figure out the truth of something, but rather how someone went from A to Z then try this game. There is ALOT going on in this game. One word of advice tho. There are 170 different videos with the final clip of the game.. And you need to watch about 145 of them to see everything that happened. It was worth dealing with it. If you want the story but none of the fun. Youtube has a 6 hour video for you guys

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