If You Only Play One New Game Pass Game, Make It Telling Lies
A bunch of new games have dropped on Game Pass today, including the sensational Telling Lies. In this unique FMV thriller you play as a woman who has been given access to an archive of illegally recorded video calls taken from the laptops and phones of four very different people. It's unclear what her—and by extension your—motives are. But as you snoop into these peoples' secret lives, a dark, twisting story begins to come into focus.
At first, the people you're covertly observing are total strangers. But by the end of the game you'll know an uncomfortable amount about them. Scrubbing through their video calls, you uncover secrets about their lives. Yet, adding a further wrinkle of intrigue, some of these people play fast and loose with the truth. Their version of events might not be entirely accurate, and you have to figure out who's telling lies. Now you know what the title means.
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The game takes place entirely on the desktop of a computer. You can drag windows around, open files, play solitaire, and jot things down in the notes app. As you play you hear the whirr of the computer's fans and the churn of the hard drive, and occasionally catch glimpses of the protagonist's face reflected in the fingerprint-smeared glass of her monitor. It's a neat gimmick, and makes interacting with this computer feel wonderfully tactile.
The game revolves around searching through a database of fragmented video clips to try and piece together a story. You search for keywords, which could be a name, a place, or something seemingly innocuous mentioned briefly by someone in a video call. If you get a hit, it can reveal yet more clips, sending you deeper down the rabbit hole.
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