Tender Loving Care
Aftermath Media · 2017 · FMV, Adventure, Casual, Sexual Content, Nudity
PC
Very Positive84% · 199
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About Tender Loving Care
You are about to enter a fantasy quite unlike anything you've ever seen or felt before - a fantasy built from the stuff of your very own mind. Tender Loving Care is not just a finely crafted suspense story; it's an exploration into your innermost perceptions, opinions, and attitudes. The unfolding story is shaped and changed by your responses to it, so that no two people will experience Tender Loving Care in exactly the same way.
Starring the acclaimed British actor, and 2-time Oscar nominee, John Hurt (Contact, Love and Death on Long Island, Elephant Man) TLC is a feature-length film seamlessly combined with computer-game like navigation and interactivity.
The player is voyeur, detective, judge, and patient all in one. Between each variable scene, Dr. Turner enlists the viewer's help in assessing the behaviour of each of the films characters - Turner's beautiful, deluded patient, her dangerous husband, and the mysterious, seductive psychiatric nurse enlisted to provide what may, or may not be, TENDER LOVING CARE.
The viewer's answers to Dr. Turner questions the shape the course of the action and the final outcome of the story. The viewer, too, becomes one of Dr. Turner's patients, taking a series of Thematic Apperception Tests (TATs), the results of which create a progressively accumulating personal psychological profile, and a complete psychological analysis by the end of the movie.
Starring the acclaimed British actor, and 2-time Oscar nominee, John Hurt (Contact, Love and Death on Long Island, Elephant Man) TLC is a feature-length film seamlessly combined with computer-game like navigation and interactivity.
The player is voyeur, detective, judge, and patient all in one. Between each variable scene, Dr. Turner enlists the viewer's help in assessing the behaviour of each of the films characters - Turner's beautiful, deluded patient, her dangerous husband, and the mysterious, seductive psychiatric nurse enlisted to provide what may, or may not be, TENDER LOVING CARE.
The viewer's answers to Dr. Turner questions the shape the course of the action and the final outcome of the story. The viewer, too, becomes one of Dr. Turner's patients, taking a series of Thematic Apperception Tests (TATs), the results of which create a progressively accumulating personal psychological profile, and a complete psychological analysis by the end of the movie.
What Steam players say
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✦ AI summary
Players appreciate TLC as a unique 90s FMV experience with engaging interactive story choices and surprisingly thought-provoking narrative elements about psychology, though they note the gameplay is minimal and sexual content is frequent. The main criticisms center on technical issues like game-breaking freezes and unresponsive controls that can waste hours of progress, along with some frustration that player choices don't always meaningfully affect the story outcome. Despite these flaws, most find the quirky, campy nature of the experience entertaining for its historical value as an early int
This game changed me as a person. One minute im reading journal entries of people with the most f****d libidos and the next im questioning the status of my bowel movements. My main takeaway from this game is to always wear your seatbelt.1 found this helpful
one of the weirdest and most uncomfortable games i've ever played (watched). love it.1 found this helpful
It's more of a movie than a game. It's 50% psychological thriller in the style of Lifetime + Cinemax. The loop is simple: 1. Watch a chapter of a movie. These run 10-15 minutes. 2. The narrator discusses what just happened and asks you questions about what you believe is happening in the story. 3. Then you can snoop around the house, invading the character's privacy by reading their diaries, emails, listening to the voicemails, etc. This is optional. 4. You take a brief psychological examination that asks intrusive questions about sex. 5. Repeat There are 7 endings that depend on how you answered the questions. You can pause and rewatch the movie clips, which alone makes this game 10x better than most other FMV games from the 90s.1 found this helpful
just start playing but i felt like it's a gem, nostalgic environment and got hooked if you like reading, RIP Beth, but she's really sexy.1 found this helpful
This game is like free therapy... That actively scars you in the process. Thrillingly dark! If you are a fan of Jungian psychology you will love it. It is a little bit buggy, also be careful closing out of it without saving because you may abruptly lose your progress. I never played the original CD-ROM, some people say they remember it having a more conclusive analysis at the end but there was a lot of build-up to a moment that in this version doesn't appear to happen. Kind of a shame really. Maybe that's why this game is so cheap, but I honestly was more fascinated by this game than most games I've played in awhile that cost way more money than this, I don't regret purchasing it. I might even play it again sometime. Perhaps the best point-and-click I've ever played? Very insightful to the human condition. Underrated masterpiece.
There's a scene in this where the husband walks into his daughters room and then stepped back and just tumbled down the stairs in the most like non lethal way and I was like "man I wonder if he could've stopped that roll there" but he just kept falling, I think the shock of it all made him go limp or something but anyways I liked this a lot, I really appreciate the sprinkling of lore throughout the exploration segments, I liked the writing and stuff idk it's just super ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ weird but it had me enthralled compared to David Cage's goo that he shot downmy throat
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