Usotsuki Camera launches on Steam 5 November with 18 surveillance puzzles

Usotsuki Camera (ウソツキカメラ) is a deduction puzzle game built around a simple question: which surveillance camera is lying? Developer Katarienumono has announced that the game will launch on Steam on 5 November 2026 for ¥580, with 18 records spread across six locations including a factory and a floodgate.

Each case presents four recordings of the same event. Three cameras show a consistent version of what happened, while one contains a contradiction. Players must compare the feeds, spot the impossible detail and identify the false recording. The game is designed for careful observation rather than quick reflexes, with no time limit forcing players to rush their judgement.

The footage can be paused, rewound and advanced frame by frame. Those controls matter because the differences are not necessarily obvious at a glance: a character may move between views, an object may appear in the wrong place or the timing of an action may fail to line up. The central appeal is the process of checking a theory against all four viewpoints instead of trusting the first suspicious detail.

The announcement’s factory and industrial surveillance imagery gives the game a suitably clinical setting. Its interface presents the feeds as a monitoring station, turning the player into a trainee being assessed for surveillance work. That framing makes each puzzle feel like a small investigation rather than a conventional spot-the-difference exercise.

An official trailer shows the four-camera layout in action, including the playback controls and the industrial environment. It is a useful snapshot of the game’s core loop: select a recording, inspect the evidence, and decide which account does not fit. The trailer does not suggest a combat system or a conventional adventure structure; the hook is the satisfaction of proving that one version of events cannot be true.

Our opinion

Usotsuki Camera has a strong, immediately legible premise. Four feeds, one lie and unlimited time is an accessible foundation, but the frame-by-frame controls could give its cases enough texture to reward patient players. The key question will be variety: 18 records is a neat launch-sized package, though the puzzles will need to introduce new kinds of contradictions rather than simply hiding smaller objects in busier scenes. For players who enjoy forensic observation and compact mysteries, the format looks promising. The 5 November release date gives curious detectives a clear appointment.