Here They Lie

 PlayStation 4
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6.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 113 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 56 out of 113
  2. Mixed: 36 out of 113
  3. Negative: 21 out of 113
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  1. Idiota150
    Nov 6, 2016
    0
    Induces VR sickness ... probably aggravated from left and right eye being badly synchronized with regards to lightening and possibly perspective. Run demo, do you have sensation view fields have dark smudges, then alternate between closing left and right eye and you'll see ... one eye sees bright the other sees dark when looking at same area. THIS IS REALLY BAD - Sony must step up andInduces VR sickness ... probably aggravated from left and right eye being badly synchronized with regards to lightening and possibly perspective. Run demo, do you have sensation view fields have dark smudges, then alternate between closing left and right eye and you'll see ... one eye sees bright the other sees dark when looking at same area. THIS IS REALLY BAD - Sony must step up and forbid this kind of ****

    0 from being unplayable.    … Expand
  2. DrFriendless
    Aug 10, 2018
    3
    I got this free on PSPlus. I played for maybe 10 minutes, during which there were a couple of decently scary things, but no hint at all as to what the game was about or what I was supposed to be doing. And it's very very slow. I don't demand a lot of action from games, but I do demand at least some action or some story. I decided the best move was to press the PS button.
  3. FRIST_008
    Nov 8, 2021
    1
    Обычно я не оцениваю игры на один бал. Но эта игра сделала то, что не смогла ни одна другая VR игра, а опыт у меня равен: пройдены все эксклюзивы на PSVR. Так вот это худший... хотя игру от крайтек про динозавров наверное надо добавить сюда же.

    Оптимизация от укачивания отсутствует. В итоге через 15 минут вам тошнит на три девять земель. Это та игра, с которой нельзя начинать знакомство    Обычно я не оцениваю игры на один бал. Но эта игра сделала то, что не смогла ни одна другая VR игра, а опыт у меня равен: пройдены все эксклюзивы на PSVR. Так вот это худший... хотя игру от крайтек про динозавров наверное надо добавить сюда же.

    Оптимизация от укачивания отсутствует. В итоге через 15 минут вам тошнит на три девять земель. Это та игра, с которой нельзя начинать знакомство с VR.

    Но если вы не будете играть в игру, как в VR, то неплохой, отдающий layers of fear страхом и наркоманией сюр, где даже есть ачивка, чтобы именно умирать. И от смерти враги исчезают и не мешают вам пройти. Такую игру на балов 7-8 я оценю=)    … Expand
  4. Ahmadovskii
    Jun 6, 2021
    0
    I don't usually get sick while playing VR games but this.. it's so blurry and I feel like throwing up every 3 minutes.
  5. MasajaMasta
    Jul 27, 2022
    4
    Artistic popcorn flick. Shallow and safe. Definition of an artistic corporate product. Beautifully dark atmosphere in the first 1/3 of the game. Rest? Hmm... With all of this
    "Wooooooo What does it allll meaaan????" near the end? Not seem at all just like some stock footage that they tried to use again. Very very deeeeep... . The ending?
    Next to some visually dark beautifully moments...    Artistic popcorn flick. Shallow and safe. Definition of an artistic corporate product. Beautifully dark atmosphere in the first 1/3 of the game. Rest? Hmm... With all of this
    "Wooooooo What does it allll meaaan????" near the end? Not seem at all just like some stock footage that they tried to use again. Very very deeeeep... . The ending?
    Next to some visually dark beautifully moments... The black lady starts to grow into colossus hights and stops in the position "I AM JESUS" 8| (Just masterful storytelling, brilliant and deeeep)

    So my advice is: you must definitely stop reading/listening to all those nihilistic ramblings on all those notes. I regret picking every wich one of them. When I stopped it elevated the game. Becasue
    all things consider this game is subtle as a hammer. All of it. Maybe all of this hedonistic symbolism (Haha.. "Symbolism"? In this game? This game has no symbolism, everything is so on the nose so much that its hard calling anything "symbolism" here)... Maybe it's not shallow for the kids but...
    Is this kind of game should be aimed at children or adults?

    Be better and have more respect for your time. Read some of the more sophisticated books. Like for real. I mean... Yeah... Their hedonism destroyed their city (I won't spoil the main guy relationship story but it is as blank as it gets). This story was told already billion times better.
    For Christ's sake... Read the original Babylon tower. Billion times smarter and more real and current and relateble than any of this **** This is like "dark art for dummies".
    It's sad that with the current ability to read so much high art stories for free on the internet they still come up with guano like this. When I was on the boat I just waited
    for it to be over.

    You see... I'm someone who generally likes walking simulators:) But it's games like this that make me tired of the conventions of the genre. The number is low because I feel like they aimed for high art. And they failed at it in a way that shouldn't be praised. If you praise this game you need to play more games in this genre/ with these themes. Too much nonsense. And too inconsistent. It desperately needed single-minded-vision. Not worth it just for the few beautiful dark images. Also vr give me hard motion sickness so played it without.    … Expand

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Metascore
62

Mixed or average reviews - based on 35 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 26 out of 35
  3. Negative: 3 out of 35
  1. Adventure Gamers
    Jan 15, 2019
    50
    Here They Lie seems like a game made for a very specific type of player who values experience over challenge or even clarity, and thus will leave many gamers cold and nonplussed at its exotic design decisions.
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  2. GameCritics
    Apr 7, 2017
    65
    As a PSVR launch title from a new development studio, Here They Lie impressed me. Tangentlemen have good ideas, atmosphere and sound design, but ultimately the meandering pacing and sporadic story beats of their work left me feeling more disappointed than scared. I’ll be keeping my eyes on these developers, though — if this is what they deliver for their debut game, I’m eager to see what they serve up next.
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  3. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    Jan 8, 2017
    60
    There are wonderfully horrifying moments and some lovely little details, but they’re too few and far between – and getting to them is an exercise in resilience rather than pleasure. [January 2016, p77]
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