History VideoGame / TellingLies

* CamWhore: One of the four characters works as a camgirl.

* NamesTheSame: Lampshaded InUniverse; David's alias, David Jones, is the same as Creator/DavidBowie's real name.

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Rare male example. David killed Emma's abusive, stalkerish ex Paul, despite the latter being unarmed and not actually harming her at the moment. Emma married David afterwards purely out of fear, which she admits in a video where she uses one of her daughter's doll houses and dolls to confess to everything while building up the courage to leave David.]]

''Telling Lies'' (stylized as ''telling l!es'') is a FullMotionVideo InteractiveFiction game, developed by Sam Barlow and Furious Bee, and published by Annapurna Interactive.

* FlockOfWolves: [[spoiler: While they are clearly a larger group, we as players see roughly a dozen of members of Green Storm. At least three of them are undercover spies.]]

* RealStitchesForFakeSnitches: [[spoilers: Mike thinks that the activists will stay away from Eric once the FBI lets him out of the prison because they will believe he got out by betraying them.]]

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Rare male example. David killed Emma's abusive, stalkerish ex Paul, despite the latter being unarmed and not actually harming her at the moment. Emma married David afterwards purely out of fear, which she admits in a video where she uses one of her daughter's doll houses and dolls to confess to everything while building up the courage to leave David.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: David cheats on his wife Emma while undercover with Ava, and also (emotionally) cheats on them both with a camgirl. As his and Emma's relationship grow increasingly strained, she cheats on him with an anesthesiologist at work.]]

** The game has a similar gameplay to ''VideoGame/HerStory'',
** The theme of dual identities, which was a part of both ''VideoGame/HerStory'' and ''VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories'', which Sam Barlow also worked on.

* RuleOfSymbolism: David tells the story of Rumpelstiltskin to his daughter, twice; the fairy tale, muchlike the game, is centered around the questions of identity and names.

** The theme of dual identities, which was a part of both ''''VideoGame/HerStory'' and ''VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories'', which Sam Barlow also worked on.
** Fairytales (Rapunzel in ''Her Story'', Snow White and Rumpelstiltskin in ''Telling Lies'').

* AloneWithThePsycho: Emma believed she was in this type of relationship with David [[spoiler: after she saw him kill her abusive ex Paul out of jealousy. She then married out of fear and pretended to be the perfect wife out of fear, but by the time you spy on their personal videos, she is tired of living the lie and starts to openly defy him. The fact that he is also away on a deep cover mission for the FBI makes it easier for her.]]

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Rare male example. David killed Emma's abusive ex Paul, despite the latter being unarmed and not actually harming her at the moment. Emma married David afterwards purely out of fear, which she admits in a video where she uses one of her daughter's doll houses and dolls to confess to everything while building up the courage to leave David.]]

* ConsummateLiar: Both the federal agent and the camgirl, as befits their profession.

* ExcatlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The game involves quite a lot of lying, which is appropriate for such a title.

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Rare male example. David killed Emma's abusive ex Paul, despite the latter being unharmed and not actually harming her at the moment. Emma married David afterwards purely out of fear, which she admits in a video where she uses one of her daughter's doll houses and dolls to confess to everything while building up the courage to leave David.]]

* HappilyMarried: David and Emma's stable marriage is part of why he was chosen for this mission.