RETINA record P7FSQC17126: Viewed 0, Bookmarks 0, one 01:42 match

About this game

Developer: Sam Barlow / Half Mermaid · Publisher: Annapurna Interactive · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Encyclopedia / Codex

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What to study

Opening a card does not open a page, the same RETINA window rearranges itself around the record. P7FSQC17126 gets a thumbnail, its custody data as plain lines (8/15/2017, 1:01:00 PM, 03:09) and two counters that quietly track the investigation itself: 'Viewed: 0', 'Bookmarks: 0'. The right pane is the detail that matters, '1 match: 01:42', because a record in Telling Lies is never just itself; it is a node that names the second in some other clip where the same word is spoken. Her Story made tagging the player's authorship; Telling Lies replaces tags with this: matches, bookmarks and a viewed count, a database that remembers what you have done to it. The search that produced the record stays visible throughout, you never leave the query, you only lean into it. Frame at about 1:13 in the Telling Lies Trailer (Steam; manual extraction, one second after the results grid in the same held shot).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

archive-card detail-panel master-detail

Components

Parts on screen.

Data table

Screen inventory

• the opened record is named like evidence, not content: 'P7FSQC17126', then '8/15/2017 1:01:00 PM' and '03:09' as plain text lines
• two counters under the thumbnail state the player's whole relationship with the clip: 'Viewed: 0' and 'Bookmarks: 0'
• left of the record, three transport buttons, back arrow, previous, next, are the only navigation the detail view adds
• right pane: '1 match:' with a thumbnail and '01:42', the record points at the moment another clip answers it, and the match is a seek target, not a transcript line
• the '5 of 34 records returned' count and the LOVE query stay on screen behind the detail, opening a record never leaves the search

Top 3 colors

#513e66 25%#151414 23%#352b3a 20%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Sam Barlow / Half Mermaid / Annapurna Interactive, Telling Lies screenshot: Telling Lies Trailer (Steam), Sam Barlow / Half Mermaid, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Annapurna Interactive.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: manual extraction manual-record-detail-73.png @ ~73s in the Telling Lies Trailer, MD5 3b45525f9bd6f11e83a841013d0e7f9f, from the pipeline download videos/steam-762830-Telling-Lies-Trailer.mp4 (86,216,359 B, MD5 927c60524dfad12531ed7c00656f0339; full decode to null wrote zero error lines, decode-trailer.err empty), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); 'P7FSQC17126', '8/15/2017 1:01:00 PM', '03:09', 'Viewed: 0', 'Bookmarks: 0', '1 match:' / '01:42' and '5 of 34 records returned' all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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