One of the best examples of "so bad, its good" 90's FMV games I’ve experienced, Tender Loving Care is a bonkers mix of 90's “erotic” thriller and Lifetime movie. Watch John Hurt get more and more confused and disgusted as you descend into a torrent of the most divorced cis straight guy thoughts on psychology and sex imaginable; where bisexual women are all nymphomaniacs, homosexuality is weird unless its two traditionally attractive women making out, and the only minor mention of transgender identity is essentially treated as mental illness. This game would make Sigmund Freud tell them to simmer it down with the sex obsession. The game actually seems rather reactive with the questions John Hurt gives you after each chapter as there are multiple different endings and scenes that can play out depending on them. As I said ultimately this game is bad, but man it’s the kind of deranged purestrain FMV shenanigans we could only get out of the 90’s and never again. Definitely entertaining.

Reviewed on Nov 16, 2023


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5 months ago

hard agree with the "so-bad-it's-good" which seems so hard to achieve in video games, with exception of 90s FMV schlock like this. TLC is a triumph in dogshit, and I absolutely love it for that