

It’s there, it’s included in the subscription, why the hell not? See, one of the things the various developers I’ve spoken to love about Game Pass is that it lets players who’d never have bought a certain type of game step out of their comfort zone risk-free and give it a go. Game Pass, treasure trove of indie weirdness that it is, has all three of Barlow’s games, which is great for me, but not necessarily great for the games’ user scores. The latter just came out last month, and its bizarre story and flirtation with some pretty big ideas inspired me to check out what’s seemingly the least loved of Barlow’s games. It may even allow copy-paste.The game in question here, with a phenomenally low score of 1.9 stars on Game Pass, is Telling Lies, the ‘middle child’ of Sam Barlow’s FMV-based trio of games which also include Her Story and Immortality. I've heard playing on a different device via XCloud is much nicer since you need to do so much typing. I personally played on Xbox with a controller and was not a fan.

The game will take less than 2 hours easily using a guide, but could even be under an hour.

I would like to thank Vudix for originally compiling the list of necessary search terms! To unlock all achievements, you will need to watch every single video in the game and screw around on the desktop for some miscellaneous achievements. You need to keep watching videos that you have not seen to progress toward the end of the game (this is tracked via the clock/time moving forward as you watch new things). When you type in a word, it pops up videos where that word is said. To progress in the story, you use this database to look up search terms and watch videos of other live-action actors talking to the camera (like video calling). This strange game involves your live action character sitting at a desktop.
