Tender: Creature Comforts

Kenny Sun

About this game

Tender is a narrative game that explores connection and rejection in the era of swipe culture. It’s a story told by and through the modern interface for finding love.

- Swipe through hundreds of intergalactic profiles
- Chat with your matches and hope the sparks fly
- Schedule dates in your calendar and play them out in real time
- Unfold a vast array of branching storylines

Ratings and reviews

I am playing it and will continue to since I paid for it, but I can't say I like it all that much. I haven't really enjoyed many of the conversations and I don't really like the real time aspect. I want to be able to chill and play my game in the afternoon but instead I do it at the time of the characters' choosing, which isn't usually convenient for me. So far this is all the bad parts of dating (waiting on people and convos that go nowhere), and very few of the good. The art is the best part.

I think this app has a lot of potential, and right now it's in it's growing stage. It would be better if there were more people to choose from, an undo button, and maybe a mechanism where if you unmatch someone, you can get one match without waiting the five hour time limit. Also, make the characters more volitile, bit more unpredictable.

Overall I'm enjoying this game a lot! It's a fun take on a dating sim with cute little monsters. It does play in real time so be prepared to wait a while between interactions. The biggest downside I've found is bugs with the dialogue - selections I make are not the ones that get "typed out" and some matches are set up to fail because of the only dialogue choices given. Still, it's fun and I'm hopeful it'll only get better.