Telling Lies (2019 Video Game)
8/10
4 Stars out of 5 Stars
31 January 2023
Never played a game or experienced a story unfold quite like this. Annapurna constantly impresses me with their really unique indie game releases, this one no different.

You play as a NSA agent who uses a computer to sift through video files to get to the bottom of what exactly happened with a character named David. Using these videos (which mostly consisted of one sided conversations) you must organize the videos to eventually start forming the unraveling story. Lots of pairing the one sided conversations with each other to form a cohesive conversation, which was also the biggest pain of the game ,but ngl was sometimes kinda fun.

Figuring out this story with this method was a truly memorable and unique experience, and I even really got invested in these characters. Awesome acting between all 4 of the main cast; truly amazing stuff here. After 27 hours of digging through videos and playing the unbeatable Solitaire game, I finally completed it, finding all the videos to form a comprehensive story of a man who made one too many bad decisions. In the end, I got the Ava ending, and while it tries to be hopeful, knowing what happens to David is just depressing, and made me leave the game a bit depressed (but in a good way).

Solid game that's designed for people who enjoy storytelling and mystery solving. Recommended.
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