Lies & Cigars

About

Lies & Cigars is a narrative-driven puzzle game set in the aftermath of a mysterious catastrophe in Astoria, Queens. You play as someone sifting through conflicting stories from a group of partygoers who witnessed the event. Each character offers a fragment of what happened but their accounts are contradictory, self-serving, or outright fabricated. The gameplay revolves on cross-referencing statements, identifying inconsistencies, and assembling a plausible timeline despite the lack of clear answers. The game’s strength lies in its layered dialogue and the tension between competing versions of reality. Players often describe the experience as a cerebral whodunit with no definitive solution, emphasizing the frustration and intrigue of chasing a truth that constantly slips away. At just two hours long, it’s a compact but memorable exercise in unreliable storytelling, praised by fans of experimental fiction for its bold ambiguity.