Telling Lies

Telling Lies is a video-game detective story built from filmed conversations, and it asks the player to work like an editor as much as a sleuth. By our assessment, its standout strength is the search interface: you jump through clips by keyword, piece together context, and learn the story by finding where one line leaks into the next. That makes it unusually good at making ordinary conversation feel like evidence. The trade-off is that the whole game lives on patience and attention, so if you want action or neat chapter breaks, it can feel spare. In practice it is about listening, searching, and rebuilding a timeline from fragments rather than following a normal plot path. It sits close to Her Story in both idea and method, and that comparison is fair because it aims at the same kind of slow deduction. Telling Lies is for players who enjoy piecing together human mess from fragments, and it never pretends to be anything else.