Little Red Lie is an emotional gut punch about paralyzing fear and insecurity

I played Little Red Lie, and now I am no longer capable of feeling joy. It’s a story-driven game that unflinchingly shines a light on topics of mental illness and economic disparity. The main interaction is lying — to yourself and to everyone around you. It’s bleak and uncompromising, full of people who either make terrible choices or are bad folks making even worse choices. It’s out now for PC and Mac on Steam and on iOS and Android.

Little Red Lie isn’t developer Will O’Neill’s first exploration of heavy topics like dysfunctional families and existential terror. His first game, Actual Sunlight, is about depression, trading off between screens of text and scenes out of a traditional role-playing game in which you walk around and examine objects. Little Red Lie has similar gameplay, featuring long internal monologues from the characters interspersed with exploration and conversation.

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