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The Lies We Tell Ourselves

Poopsy · 2025-01-15

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jan 15, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Lies We Tell Ourselves is an episodic first person psychological action-adventure game with introspective/horror elements and a focus on subtle storytelling and atmosphere. Explore, solve puzzles, survive and uncover truths buried deep within a castle of lies.

72%
positive of 127 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (47 reviews).
  • · Top 36% of 29,368 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.5k–5.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 127 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.79 at Steam (2025-10-27) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
343420252026Week of 2025-01-15: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-01-15: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-01-22: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-22: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-09: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

15
achievements tracked
44.1%
earned "Drunken Logic"
23.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Player tags

DarkIndieHorrorPuzzleSurrealAdventureEmotionalNarrativeStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.