Tender Loving Care
Released Mar 2017
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.
84% positive · 221 reviews
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $0.89 $5.99 −85%
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Evaluation
Tender Loving Care is a re-release of a classic 1990s interactive film, published by Nightdive Studios and released on Steam on March 30, 2017. The game is a self-contained, feature-length interactive movie starring John Hurt — a fixed narrative experience with no post-launch content structure, no DLC, and no ongoing development activity. The store description presents it as a complete, finished product with no mention of planned updates, additional content, or live elements. There are no developer news posts, no DLC listings, and no signals of any kind suggesting future content. This game launched as a complete package and has remained so.
Evidence
Store description presents the game as a complete, self-contained interactive film with a fixed cast and narrative structure. No mention of DLC, updates, or additional content.
Short description reinforces the game as a finished, standalone experience with no indication of post-launch content plans.
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Developer
Publisher
Nightdive Studios
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Platform
Windows
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Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player
About this game
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.
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