Telling Lies

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 1,200 reviews of which 774 were positive and 426 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.3 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 4.62€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.

The Steam community has classified Telling Lies into these genres:

Mystery FMV Thriller Detective Story Rich Adventure Indie Realistic Investigation Crime Simulation Interactive Fiction Exploration Point & Click Puzzle Open World Singleplayer Nonlinear Drama Atmospheric

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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

Reviews

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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.

Aug. 2024

9/10 Telling Lies is not a detective game about a special event. It is a story that focus on life of four persons that somehow connected to each other. Even though the only way that we know about these persons are through some recorded video calls, but eventually all of these four characters are become important to us, because of their brilliant casting. So these acting beside the great direction, are the reasons that made Telling Lies a great interactive game. +: Brilliant acting of every character Great direction Interesting story All the endings are very good Good gameplay and user interface -: The user interface has many flaws that make the gameplay tedious

Aug. 2024

Another interesting story with some twists, but I personally enjoyed Her Story more. Something many others have mentioned that I agree with is that the rewind is very slow. There is a mod someone made to quicken the rewind speed, but it would be nice if the rewind speed was quicker by default. If you don't mind the rewind speed and think the story sounds intriguing, I'd say pick it up. As of my writing of this review, the game is currently on sale for 5 USD (75% off), which I think is justified.

May 2024

Really captures the feelings from the game that started it all: "Her Story". I took lots of notes to try and unravel the mystery of what had happened and had a lot of fun doing that. However, the controls aren't perfect and can be very tedious especially when you can't seek to exactly where you want quickly nor jump to the start of the video (which is very sorely needed and reasonable in my opinion). Overall still quite enjoyable.

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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Developer

Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid, Furious Bee Limited

Publisher

Annapurna Interactive

Release 23 Aug 2019

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