Telling Lies
Telling Lies is the new video game from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. An investigative thriller game with non-linear storytelling, Telling Lies revolves around a cache of secretly recorded video conversations. It stars Logan Marshall-Green, Alexandra Shipp, Kerry Bishé and Angela Sarafyan. Telling Lies sits you in front of an anonymous laptop loaded with a stolen NSA database full of footage. The footage covers two years in the intimate lives of four people whose stories are linked by a shocking incident. Explore the database by typing search terms, watch the clips where those words are spoken and piece together your story. Unlike anything you've played before, Telling Lies is an intimate and intense experience. A game where you decide the truth.
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
Telling lies was a great time!
I understand the faults with the games mechanics. Especially with the
notepad feature. The acting is yoga tits, so really good.
You could find the ending pretty easily at one point, but for me, it came gradually and I enjoyed
it immensely for it! I think it's totally to worth the current special promotion price of $4.99. Definitely play it!
P.S: No PEEN
Steam User 2
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.
Steam User 2
Overall I enjoyed playing the game and finding the pieces of the story. There were a few things that were minor annoyances while playing the game: Some of the bookmark mechanics don't work properly, and the other thing is that it's kind of weird staring at someone in silence while they are being responded to via voice chat (I didn't find out you could fast-forward at first), like I get it and why it needs to be there, but it was weird. Once I found out about the fast-forward button it definitely helped so that's on me I suppose. There's a character in the game that's in a band and you can come across them playing a song and it is actually a pretty cool song.
Steam User 1
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
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The user interface has many flaws that make the gameplay tedious
Steam User 1
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.
Steam User 0
Its quite nice detective game, not as good as Her Story, this one is much more straightforward one, but still as more as you getting into the story the more you invested
Steam User 0
The mechanics are not as perfect as those in Immortality, but I started getting into the story and will continue playing to find further story points.