Telling Lies Download PC

Developer: Sam Barlow

Release date: 2019

Platform: Windows (PC)

Genre: Adventure

Version: 1.0

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Telling Lies is a narrative video game developed by Sam Barlow and Furious Bee and published by Annapurna Interactive in August 2019. As with Barlow's previous title, Her Story, the game uses live action full-motion video of four people (played by Logan Marshall-Green, Alexandra Shipp, Kerry Bishé, and Angela Sarafyan) 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.

Gameplay

Barlow describes Telling Lies as a "desktop thriller" like Her Story, where the player becomes involved in a drama that is played out through stored video clips and other information presented on a virtual computer desktop. Telling Lies provides the player with numerous video segments that in the game's narrative, cover a two-year period and which have been stored on a stolen hard-drive taken from the National Security Agency. The player has the ability to search the hundreds of video segments on keywords as to piece together timelines, events, and interactions, all to try to understand why the four central people have been the subject of electronic surveillance, as well as the nature of the player-character's role in these events; this character appears female and can be seen in a virtual reflection of the in-game computer screen to the actual player. However, these clips only provide the video and audio from one side of the conversation, requiring the player to determine which clips may match the other participants, as well as potential interactions with around 30 other people. Players can scroll forwards and backwards within segments, highlight certain words in the video subtitles to use as search, and keep notes within an in-game memo pad. The player only has a limited amount of time within a single playthrough to scan material from the hard-drive, and would have to restart from scratch (losing all notes and bookmarks) if they want to see more. Barlow estimated that the content within Telling Lies is about four to five times longer than Her Story. There are three different endings that the player may reach through the game, depending on which character's videos they explored most frequently.

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Plot

In 2019, Karen Douglas, a former FBI agent, goes back to her apartment at midnight to turn on her computer and access the content of an external USB drive. She then watches the videos by searching them using keywords.

David Smith, the main character, was an FBI agent. He and his wife, Emma, have a daughter Alba. After David went undercover, Emma’s mother, Laura, moved in. During David's mission, Laura developed dementia and eventually passed away, despite medical care by an anaesthesiologist named Steven who was hired by the couple.

It is revealed that when David was Emma's then-boyfriend, he killed Paul, who was Emma’s abusive ex-boyfriend. David waited outside for Paul to enter Emma’s house. Then David went inside and used his pistol to shoot Paul, who was unarmed, in the lungs, and then watched him bleed to death, with Emma as an unwilling accomplice.

During the years of 2017 and 2018, David was an undercover special agent supervised by an agent named Mike, working on a case code-named as Green Dagger. The aim of the operation was to demonstrate the intention of environmental groups to break the law and commit acts of terrorism. The main target of the operation was a group called "Green Storm" lead by an activity named Riordan. To infiltrate this group, David was to begin by infiltrate a smaller team called the "Organizing Group" led by Eric and Peter.

The Organizing group's main target was a corporation in Detroit, Michigan called Prosperen, who wished to build natural gas plants in the area. In particular the organisation was building a pipeline which the activist groups believed would pollute the water source. Mike instructed David to use the alias David Jones and infiltrate the group. They targeted Ava, who was referred to as “Snow White”. David approached Ava and developed a romantic relationship with her, based on their mutual love for music. David gained Ava’s trust and used this to get invited to the Organizing group.

The Organizing Group was initially made up of Eric, Chris, Peter, and Simon. Simon was secretly a black flag agent providing information to the FBI, an arrangement David was unhappy with as he felt Simon was unprofessional. As David begun to ingratiate himself with the group, he discovered that Peter, one of the leaders, had previously slept with Ava while she was underage, drugged her and filmed some of what they had done. David brutally attacks Peter, receiving an official reprimand from the FBI, and incurring Ava's anger. Unashamed, he then proceeds to use a contact from his past, Harry, to acquire drugs which he plants on Peter to frame him.

As David gets increasingly edgy, he decides to out Simon as a Black Flag Spy. While these actions, and his growing closeness to Ava, alarms Mike, it also impresses Eric, and David moves forwards with the plan. He invites Riordan and the Organizing Group to discuss plans to disrupt movement on a key bridge which Prosperen needs access to proceed with the pipeline. While staying on the boat, Ava reveals that she is pregnant with David's child.

David discusses with a new Black Flag employee who has infiltrated Green Storm their plan to try to trap Riordan into getting involved in a direct attack, namely destroying a bridge. However during the meeting the Black Flag employee doesn't follow the script, and David's speech is not well received. A frustrated David calls Mike only to discover that Mike has agreed with Black Flag to hold off on Green Storm, and just arrest the Organizing Group, including Ava. David argues strongly that the operation should continue, and that Ava should not be arrested, but Mike tells him to kill David Jones (His cover name).