Contradiction: Spot the Liar!
"Contradiction is an interactive crime drama game that uses live-action video for the entirety of the game play. It’s a brand new take on the concept of an interactive movie and brings the genre to a whole new…
Contradiction: Spot the Liar! is an adventure developed by Baggy Cat Ltd, released 14 January 2015 on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Contradiction: Spot the Liar! is
Contradiction: Spot the Liar! is an adventure game developed by Baggy Cat Ltd and released in 2015. It is available on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Contradiction: Spot the Liar!, also known as Contradiction: The All-Video Murder Mystery Adventure, is an FMV game created by video game music composer Tim Follin and published by his company Baggy Cat. The game follows the investigation of Detective Inspector Frederick Jenks into the apparent suicide of Kate Vine in the small British village of Edenton. Its gameplay involves interviewing people and finding contradictions in their answers. Crowdfunded through Kickstarter with a total budget of just £6,000, the game was released for the iPad on 14 January 2015 and for Windows and Mac OS X on Steam on 10 July 2015. It was later released for Amazon Fire TV on 19 February 2017.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 17 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Contradiction: Spot the Liar! holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 10 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Quad Core and 4 GB RAM. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Contradiction: Spot the Liar! launched on 14 January 2015, within three weeks of Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light and Resident Evil HD Remaster. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light, Resident Evil HD Remaster.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Contradiction: Spot the Liar! yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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