{"rewrite":{"id":"r_d296f4625095483cd590a668","clusterId":"c_add417eda48ee137391d10a7","slug":"fat-rat-releases-steam-demo-for-fairy-tale-identity-verification-sim-tell-me-your-tale","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Fat Rat Releases Steam Demo For Fairy Tale Identity Verification Sim Tell Me Your Tale","summary":"Indie studio Fat Rat is distributing a demo on Steam for Tell me Your Tale, an identity-verification simulation game. Players act as inspectors for the Fairy Tale Inspection Department, interrogating visitors from stories such as Little Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio, cross-checking documents, appearance, and belongings against official records. Visitors are real, fakes, or anomalies, and the player decides which. The game is scheduled for release on November 3, 2026, with Japanese text support.","whyItMatters":"The demo puts the game's core loop in front of players months before the November 3 release, and its escalating rules and branching admissions mean the verification premise has to hold up on its own before launch.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe demo is available now on Steam, and it hands players the full inspector role rather than a tutorial slice. Interrogations run on documents, appearance, and belongings, and the answers get checked against official records. Small contradictions are the point.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFat Rat sorts every visitor into one of three categories: real, fake, or anomaly. Rules and procedures accumulate as the game goes on, so the player has to keep confirming identities under a growing rule set. Who gets admitted and who gets turned away changes how the story develops, and the outcomes branch toward different endings. The release is set for November 3, 2026, with Japanese text support.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Tell Me Your Tale splits its visitors into real, fake, and anomaly, so the demo's actual test is whether a wrong stamp costs you anything. Fat Rat has not said what a misjudged case does.","twitterPost":"Tell Me Your Tale asks players to judge real, fake, or anomaly. Fat Rat has not said what a wrong call costs.","threadsPost":"Tell Me Your Tale gives its visitors three labels: real, fake, or anomaly. The demo is where Fat Rat finds out if players read the documents or just guess, because the press materials never say what a wrong stamp does to the inspection.","newsletterBlurb":"Fat Rat has put a demo for Tell me Your Tale on Steam. The identity-verification sim casts the player as an inspector for the Fairy Tale Inspection Department, screening arrivals from stories like Little Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio and sorting them into real, fake, or anomaly categories. The full release is scheduled for November 3, 2026, with Japanese text support.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"4Gamer.net\",\"url\":\"https://www.4gamer.net/games/041/G104176/20260910040/\",\"title\":\"Become an inspector in the Fairy Tale Inspection Department and screen characters arriving from various fairy tales. Identity-verification sim \\\"Tell me Your Tale\\\" demo now available\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4193,"outputTokens":638,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789036165,"createdAt":"2026-09-10T10:25:03.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-10T10:28:21.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-10T10:28:21.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_add417eda48ee137391d10a7","canonicalTitle":"童話検査部門の検査官となり，さまざまな童話からやってくる登場人物を審査していく。身分照合系シム「Tell me Your Tale」，体験版配信中","representativeArticleId":"a_7ee05a3a1b18c8a07d082be1","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Tell me Your Tale\"],\"studios\":[\"Fat Rat\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-10T09:47:17.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-10T09:47:17.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-10T10:28:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"4Gamer.net","url":"https://www.4gamer.net/games/041/G104176/20260910040/","title":"童話検査部門の検査官となり，さまざまな童話からやってくる登場人物を審査していく。身分照合系シム「Tell me Your Tale」，体験版配信中"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Tell me Your Tale"],"studios":["Fat Rat"],"people":[],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}