The Lies We Tell Ourselves Steam Charts & Stats

I loved the first chapter. Im super excited for the next release of Chapter 2 and will be sitting on the edge of my seat anticipating the next release. This game is more story rich in my opinion than it is puzzle and horror (dont get it twisted as there ARE puzzles and a bit of them and as well as horror elements). The puzzles stumped me momentarily once or twice, but i got through them. Dont get me wrong i loved getting stumped occasionally. The horror aspect was tame, maybe a jump scare here and there, but wasnt overly annoying. It has more of an atmospheric feel of horror than what a typical horror game has, like being chased or a monster lurking around the corner. I Loved Loved Loved this game.

Holy S%$& this developer is something else. But first, let's talk about the game. When the developer says that the game is slow paced and not for everyone, they are trying to shield themselves from any and all criticism that may come from someone who they deem "not the right game for". The issue is that many of the people who are taking the chance on this game and still reviewing it negatively are exactly the audience that this type of horror game was for, but the developer is just extremely upset. Here's the deal: This game is slow to a fault. They may list it as a slow-burn or use any other words to describe it, but it's painfully, unrealistically slow. You will often solve a puzzle and get control of your character for LITERALLY 2 seconds and then directly into another cut scene losing control of your character for an information dump that could have been done without removing control from the player. And THIS is a very targeted and long thought out criticism. There is just no reason to continually take away the agency of movement from the player to show them information that could have been done without the need of a forced cut scene. As I believe the dev is going to have issues with this statement, I will present the painting and the light as evidence of this. Once you complete the trophy puzzle the paintings all have a light coming through them and the game forces you to watch a cut scene of this happening for some reason. The player would very obviously notice that there were suddenly beams of light coming out of the paintings but instead the dev forces you to see it like you're a 3 year old. Truly the issue with this game is just the pacing. If they turned the cut scenes instead into just things that happened while the player could continue on with the puzzles then I really think it would solve most of my issues with one go. The puzzles were not bad. I enjoyed them for the most part. The puzzles where you had to discover the floor towards the end were fun even if you did get reset if you fell. The puzzles about the walking and compass directions were really neat other than having a few too many of them all in one go. I think there is definitely a good puzzle game under all of this, it's just covered by extremely too many cut scenes and bizarre choices. I want to really underline here that I believe there is a good game under the issues. It didn't crash, it looked great and honestly was fun in many stretches, it's just plagued by some issues that I can't quite deal with. Before the dev attacks me for this, I play and stream specifically games like this all day, every stream. So don't tell me this isn't the type of game for me, it's just not great. Yet. tl;dr - This game isn't lying when it says it's slow paced. It's slow to a fault. Also dev likes to pick fights with people in comments and Insym apparently has taken up residence in the developers head full time.