Tender: Creature Comforts

iOS & Android, free to download (Kenny Sun)

In Tender, which bills itself as an interstellar dating game, you create a profile on an alien dating website and swipe left to reject and right to connect with potential extraterrestrial partners.

Your main objective is to set up dates, which happen in real-time at the time and day you agree upon. You can flirt and chat using canned text responses at any moment. If you forget, your extraterrestrial companion will be understandably upset.

Even while it is still more of an oddity than a game, there are no in-app purchases, making this a really free endeavor. There's nothing stopping you if sim dating space monsters sounds like your cup of tea.

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

CW: Toxic relationships

Written by Gideon Lazarus

Art by Jie En Lee

Programmed by Kenny Sun

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