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 an indie developed by Furious Bee Limited, released 23 August 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS. The main story takes about 3 hrs to finish.
What Telling Lies is
Telling Lies is an indie game developed by Furious Bee Limited and released in 2019. It was published by Annapurna Interactive. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Telling Lies is a narrative video game developed by Sam Barlow and Furious Bee and published by Annapurna Interactive in August 2019 for iOS, macOS, and Windows. Ports for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One were released in April 2020. As with Barlow's previous title, Her Story, the game uses live action full-motion video of four people as part of video calls made between them, and the player will need to use tools provided from the game to piece together events and what statements may be lies to determine the overall mystery.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 11 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Telling Lies holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 85% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Players rate it 75, 10 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 12 hrs, roughly 4 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz Dual Core Processor, 4 GB RAM and GeForce 8800 or equivalent. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB.
What it launched against
Telling Lies launched on 23 August 2019, within three weeks of Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and Gears 5. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, Gears 5.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Telling Lies yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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