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Contradiction: Spot The Liar cover art

Contradiction: Spot The Liar

Baggy Cat Ltd. · 2015-07-10

Steam

AdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 10, 2015 (Mac), Jul 10, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 14, 2015 (iOS)

Spot the lie and beat the liars in 'Contradiction' - the all-video murder mystery adventure!

2
playing now
95%
positive of 3.3k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (19 ratings)
6h
to beat · rushed 5h · completionist 10h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$12.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Contradiction: Spot the Liar!, also known as Contradiction: The All-Video Murder Mystery Adventure, is an FMV game created by video game music composer Tim Follin and published by his company Baggy Cat. The game follows the investigation of Detective Inspector Frederick Jenks into the apparent suicide of Kate Vine in the small British village of Edenton. Its gameplay involves interviewing people and finding contradictions in their answers. Crowdfunded through Kickstarter with a total budget of just £6,000, the game was released for the iPad on 14 January 2015 and for Windows and Mac OS X on Steam on 10 July 2015. It was later released for Amazon Fire TV on 19 February 2017.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 55 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 24% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 16% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 81k–195k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,253 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2019-07-04) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
474720182026Week of 2018-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-08-06 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$7.492015-07-112026-07-092015-07-11 — best price $9.992019-07-04 — best price $7.492019-07-29 — best price $9.992019-10-28 — best price $7.492020-01-02 — best price $9.992020-03-09 — best price $9.992020-04-07 — best price $8.992020-05-11 — best price $9.992020-06-27 — best price $7.492020-09-14 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $7.992021-02-04 — best price $14.992021-03-02 — best price $12.992021-04-05 — best price $12.992021-06-24 — best price $9.742021-08-09 — best price $12.992021-12-22 — best price $10.392022-04-30 — best price $9.742022-07-07 — best price $12.992022-10-31 — best price $10.392023-01-05 — best price $12.992023-03-16 — best price $9.742023-05-15 — best price $12.992023-12-21 — best price $9.742024-03-21 — best price $12.992024-11-27 — best price $9.092025-01-02 — best price $12.992025-06-26 — best price $9.742025-10-06 — best price $12.992026-03-19 — best price $9.742026-07-09 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
81.3%
earned "6pm unlocked"
56.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

Player tags

FMVRPGCrimeIndieRetroMysteryDetectiveImmersiveConspiracyStory Rich

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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