Telling Lies
Skip · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 9, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.2h
- Value
- $4.76/hr
- Reviews
- 63% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 8800 or equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was December 2022. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 63 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 90 percent. On the same math Contradiction: Spot The Liar ($12.99, scores 68) and Supernormal ($7.99, scores 30) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 84 against 63 percent.
Of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 207 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.2 hours; clearing it takes 9, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
52% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
This game suffers from a few design issues that really drag the experience down. The absence of a progress bar to more effectively scrub through videos was a massive mistake, sometimes achievements had a hard time firing, and overall the format made the gameplay drag. I can't give this game a bad review though. The acting was great across the board, the characters were compelling, and the story was interesting and...
Fun game, interesting story. Would be more fun if there was a "skip to start" button for the longer videos clips. And it would also be great to be able to play two videos of the same conversation side by side, maybe through another app on the computer. Worth it to play!
Hard to recommend. I really liked Her Story. If you liked that, you will probably like this as well. I think the overall story was more immersive, more engrossing. There is something really interesting about learning to know characters through their most mundane activities. It makes the twists hit harder, hurt more. I really enjoyed the way I got to experience the story, and I think the overall story was just...
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Cite this score
Telling Lies scores 9/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/762830/telling-liesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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