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

So it's a cute little dating sim just to pass the time. I read another review where it was kind of like a theme of rejection and I could to with that. I loved the dialogue, the profiles, the art, swiping left and right all that experience but the dates were downfalls and let downs. One thing I WISH WAS IN THE GAME is NOTIFICATIONS that a date is coming up in like 10 minutes or your date is waiting for you type deal. I think that would have made this a whole nother knotch otherwise glad

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.