Decided to play and finish Telling Lies before it leaves Gamepass. Frankly this can barely be called a game. It plays like an alternate reality game. You pretty much start as someone who comes in FMV style and opens this laptop. You have this database thing with videos you can search using terms used in the videos to get the full story. Pretty much every video stars David, who is the main character. You watch FMVs of different times over a period of his life to try to figure out things about him and who he interacts with. I highly recommend a paper and pen writing down important terms. The game controls really badly mainly with the mouse and keyboard. To speed up and down videos is not easy and you can click on subs to search against that term. This is pretty much a movie broken up into a messy searching game. The acting is alright albeit solid especially for the David character. A few of the others were pretty good, but some weren't amazing. It's a lot of videos with many being very uninteresting.
Overall it told a story and I beat it in about 3.5 hours. I didn't like this one much and am pretty sure Her Story and Immortality are officially off my backlog list now. I think they're all like this except about different subjects. Some people find these fun, but I could do without it. Still glad I got to try it, so I don't have to be tempted by it when it is cheap. 6/10 for originality, but not super fun or interesting.
