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After a bit I stopped looking at the narrative and only focused on the colours. I categorised the cards by colour and tried to match the categories. I don't know if I got it exactly right, but I was able to finish the game on my second attempt without ever blaming Gary, who, for some odd reason, decided to be mad at me anyway at the end.

In essence, I ended up playing a slightly obscure version of Rock Paper Scissor. I think there is a very precise reason why your game fall down this trap so quickly. And that is the disconnect between the cards and the question. For instance, there are very few question where answering with "It's in your spam folder" makes any sense. So I deduced, this card is green, because only trivial stuff would be sent this way (bear in mind it doesn't matter whether I'm right or wrong in my interpretation. This is my thought process as a player). A better example would be the "Birthday" card. I identified that one as green as well, so every time there was a green question, like "Did you steal my yogurt?" I would answer "Birthday", and Jenna would say "that makes perfect sense". In short, your game shows very quickly how poorly contextualised the answers are, so minmaxing is what players would do fairly quickly. The solution to this issue is having cards that are directly tied to the question. There could be multiple cards for multiple categories, that's fine, but they should make sense in the context.

Art is nice in the character design, but the pixel art doesn't match the rest of the enivronment, which isn't optimal. Pretty good looking overall though. Note, don't use Arial as a font. :D

Audio is fine, quirky music. Not many sounds though.

I don't think the game fits the theme very well. The game is not a liar, it's a game ABOUT a liar. I see these as different.