Façade is a game that details a dramatic culmination of a failed married couple's frustrations with each other. Instead of sitting back and watching the scene, you are a third person party to the drama, having only introduced the two in college 10 years earlier but are at the couple's house for a get together just before the climax of their drama. The people in the couple, Trip and Grace, make random (literally randomly picked from a short group of topics) small-talk with you, attempting to pretend that they aren't mad at each other. Grace and Trip play out their roles like characters in a series of cinematic scenes, reacting to each other in ways that you can't effect such as getting mad at everything the other person in the couple says, or leaving the room claiming that their spouse is intolerable, all the while dragging you into their arguments. When the couple stops to allow for the player to input a word into the conversation, the player may say anything he/she wishes; should the player say something that corresponds to the question posed to him/her, the couple will react accordingly, usually with one offended and the other on your side.

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I just won at Facade, but I'm not really sure how. I mean, I guess I won. I got that ending where Grace and Trip kind of make up and then they kick you out so they can really talk things over. I honestly don't have a clue how though. They just kept fighting and every time something was addressed to me I said something like "I like alcohol" or "Paint is fun!" The response was always something like "It really helps me to hear you say that" for some reason too. Then Trip left and Grace was pouting in a corner so I got a little scared and I started calling for Trip. Trip, from somewhere in the back of the apartment, started having a bit of a tantrum because he thought Grace was talking about him. Then he came back and this argument broke out and they completely ignored everything I said. So I went into the corner and tried to ask what the weird cracked egg thing was but they didn't listen to me. I got bored with the egg thing after a while, so I turned back around to look at them. Grace was staring out the window and Trip was standing about three feet away from me and glaring at me as he argued with Grace. I tried to talk to him but he continued talking with Grace and glaring at me.

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