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Telling Lies

Sam Barlow · Annapurna Interactive · 2019-08-23

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AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 23, 2019 (Mac), Apr 28, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 23, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 28, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Apr 28, 2020 (Xbox One), Aug 23, 2019 (iOS)

Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.

3
playing now
63%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
65/100
IGDB user rating (55 ratings)
3h
to beat · rushed 1.9h · completionist 12h
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

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

Telling Lies is a narrative video game developed by Sam Barlow and Furious Bee and published by Annapurna Interactive in August 2019 for iOS, macOS, and Windows. Ports for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One were released in April 2020. As with Barlow's previous title, Her Story, the game uses live action full-motion video of four people 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.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 27% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 33k–79k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,324 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.79-76%
IndieGala$3.99-80%
Gamesplanet$4.69-77%
GOG$4.99-75%
Humble Store$4.99-75%
GOG$4.99-75%
GameBillet$5.00-75%
GamersGate$5.00-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.72 at GameBillet (2025-04-12)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 96 of 122 observed days · $0.27 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

802026-08-07 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.452019-08-232026-08-302019-08-23 — best price $19.992020-01-27 — best price $19.992020-06-25 — best price $10.992021-05-21 — best price $7.992021-11-01 — best price $19.992022-01-03 — best price $19.992022-02-09 — best price $15.492022-04-06 — best price $17.882022-05-11 — best price $4.792022-06-23 — best price $5.992022-08-23 — best price $4.452022-09-27 — best price $19.992022-11-17 — best price $13.382023-01-06 — best price $19.992023-02-19 — best price $19.992023-04-18 — best price $5.802023-06-19 — best price $4.992023-08-06 — best price $15.892023-09-29 — best price $4.802023-11-20 — best price $4.442024-01-18 — best price $4.992024-02-19 — best price $4.462024-03-25 — best price $19.992024-04-26 — best price $4.472024-06-03 — best price $19.992024-07-25 — best price $4.142024-08-15 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $4.992025-02-25 — best price $15.322025-04-27 — best price $14.392025-07-25 — best price $15.892025-10-06 — best price $4.902025-12-03 — best price $19.992026-01-30 — best price $15.892026-03-27 — best price $14.392026-05-08 — best price $17.402026-06-21 — best price $5.002026-08-01 — best price $17.612026-08-28 — best price $3.992026-08-30 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

274552026-05-31 — 138 pageviews2026-06-03 — 112 pageviews2026-06-06 — 113 pageviews2026-06-09 — 124 pageviews2026-06-12 — 88 pageviews2026-06-15 — 96 pageviews2026-06-18 — 83 pageviews2026-06-21 — 106 pageviews2026-06-24 — 64 pageviews2026-06-27 — 97 pageviews2026-06-30 — 91 pageviews2026-07-03 — 85 pageviews2026-07-06 — 88 pageviews2026-07-09 — 75 pageviews2026-07-12 — 110 pageviews2026-07-15 — 100 pageviews2026-07-18 — 126 pageviews2026-07-21 — 160 pageviews2026-07-24 — 117 pageviews2026-07-27 — 132 pageviews2026-07-30 — 144 pageviews2026-08-02 — 221 pageviews2026-08-05 — 154 pageviews2026-08-08 — 132 pageviews2026-08-11 — 152 pageviews2026-08-14 — 184 pageviews2026-08-17 — 155 pageviews2026-08-20 — 122 pageviews2026-08-23 — 122 pageviews2026-08-26 — 102 pageviews2026-08-28 — 90 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
51.7%
earned "Hey"
33.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Russian, Japanese, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)11,91548%15
PS4 (PlayStation)6,43875%16
PS4 (PlayStation)5,63071%16
Steam (Steam)1,47126%11
Switch (Nintendo)320%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FMVCrimeIndiePuzzleMysteryThrillerAdventureDetectiveRealisticSimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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