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Telling Lies (iOS) Review

On Your Own Time

  • Kenneth Shepard Kenneth Shepard
  • August 21, 2019
  • 4 Minute Read
Telling Lies (iOS) Review
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Score: 9 / 10

I know based on a report the game gave me at the very end, I only saw about half of what Telling Lies had to show me. I think I’m okay with that.

In the roughly four hours I was given to rummaging through hours of footage of the interwoven lives of its characters, I managed to find the one video I truly wanted to see just as I was about to run out of time. It was the one that answered the question that was on my mind the entire time I was searching through FaceTime and laptop camera videos: what happened?

Telling Lies gives you no exposition whatsoever as it sets you down in front of a computer filled with videos surrounding the life of a man named David, played by Upgrade star Logan Marshall-Green. These videos can be as mundane as him telling a story to his daughter to as intense as the ones that depict key moments in Telling Lies’ overarching story. All you have to do is search through them using words spoken in these conversations, with each video being one side of a two-sided exchange. At several points, I had to use the context clues of what one person was saying in order to search for and find the other side of a conversation.

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Final Thoughts:

Telling Lies is a game defined by the individual’s own terms and parameters, rewarding the wide spectrum of curiosity of anyone willing to put the time and thought into its mysteries.
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Kenneth Shepard

Kenneth Shepard

Player of games, writer of words, drinker of Coke. Cries about video games in public places and on Twitter.
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Telling Lies

Publisher: Annapurna Interactive
Developer: Furious Bee
Played On: iOS
ESRB Rating: NA
Release Date: August 23, 2019
Platform(s): PC, iOS

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