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. 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 reflection of the player-character can be seen off the virtual monitor.īarlow 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 is played out on a virtual desktop computer screen with its own operating system.

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