A short guide to describe how to get all achievements in this game.
Achievements
All of these below are built-in achievements, meaning the only way to miss them is by either not playing for long enough or a bug.
HeyMake it past 1am – make it through 1am in the game, achievement automatically unlocks itself.
All Work And No PlayMake it past 2am – make it through 2am in the game, achievement automatically unlocks itself.
Nocturnal AnimalsMake it past 3am – make it through 3am in the game, achievement automatically unlocks itself.
You're A VampireMake it past 4am – make it through 4am in the game, achievement automatically unlocks itself.
Time Is Running OutMake it past 5am – make it through 5am in the game, achievement automatically unlocks itself.
In any case of a bug not receiving one of these built-in achievements, you can always start it over once completing the story, and see if it resolves the issue.
Hidden Achievements
Animal LogicCats can't type – shortly after 3am, the agent's cat jumps up to the desk and runs through the keyboard which will leave some random characters in your search bar.
Not sure if I got this one by any user interaction such as pressing 'Search' button to see if any result popped up for those characters.
SunriseHeaded out onto the roof – achievement earned automatically upon uploading files.
LibrarianYou like bookmarking – bookmark 20 videos throughout your gameplay.
OrganizerYou like tagging things – keep tagging videos at least 10 times.
Pointless GameIt's the taking part that counts – as the description implies, keep playing the card game called Solitaire (upper-left corner) within the game. You will eventually notice that one king is missing but you'll just need to start over and play it a few times until the achievement pops.
Full UploadUploaded the entire data set – you'll need to go through all 170 videos in the database.
Here you'll find all clips that you need in order to unlock this achievement as well as watch all alternative endings if you're interested:
- steam/steamapps/common/Telling Lies/TellingLies_Data/StreamingAssets/Videos
It doesn't meant you have to watch through every second of every video, you can simply just open the video folder on your computer and go through all clips from 1-96 by looking for keywords and checking within the game whether each one has already been viewed by you before .
Source: https://gameplay.tips/guides/5112-telling-lies.html