A good personal hook helps any mystery, and upcoming first-person puzzler My Father Lied delivers a couple of strong ones by the end of its new trailer. Taking inspiration from the likes of Myst, The Witness, and Broken Sword, the game follows a young woman realizing her father wasn’t who she imagined, falling down a deep rabbit hole full of ancient intrigue.
The point-and-click puzzle game‘s title, My Father Lied, provides the narrative starting point. Huda, the protagonist, is on a quest tied to her estranged father, toward whom she holds come complex feelings. The journey involves solving puzzle-laden areas in order to progress and figure out more about what’s going on. Eventually, she finds herself underground, at what looks like an old temple – it’s always an old temple…
The various riddles and subversive challenges come in different forms. Some are environmental, requiring you to piece together clues from around the room to understand what’s needed, whereas others are smaller brain-twisters where you have to move little pieces around or complete a jigsaw of sorts. It all comes from Mesopotamian history, delving back through centuries of lore.
The trailer alone contains some good variety, showcasing several of the 3D environments you’ll be wandering through. Pacing can be tricky in this kind of adventure game, because a certain amount of aimlessness is needed to push players to try everything and see what happens. My Father Lied’s main puzzles are “logical and fair,” according to developer Lunar Games, with bonus riddles for those who want to be challenged a bit more.
Storyboarded narrative scenes involving Huda and her memories give your brain a break, shedding light on her background and contextualizing whatever’s happening. At the end of the trailer, there’s a shocking revelation that doubles down on the overall mystique. If that stone building that Huda uncovers doesn’t make you want to learn more, than maybe her family history will be what drives you.
Either way, there’s a demo available now, and the project is up on Kickstarter. The goal is a modest $10,000 CAD, which converts to roughly $7,000 USD or £5,6oo, and the cash will be used to refine the upcoming PC game and help localize it into more languages. You can learn more and see the stretch goals on the Kickstarter here.
My Father Lied has a demo out now on Steam, and the full game comes out on Friday, May 30, 2025. You can peruse the Steam page here.
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