#loved 2010

[rinzay]

“I Loved you, always“

this game messed with me and I love it

[queer-here-and-in-fear]

every once in a while i replay loved and then i sit down like damnn. how is a game a blatant open handed applicable to all abuse metaphor and its about kink and its about your evil mom (even if your mom is great; for the duration of this game, you have an evil mom) and its about being trans and its about how kink is secretly about your evil mom. wild. and it takes like 10 minutes at most. everyone should play loved

[fantajoseph]

Just realized two things which in combination are obscenely telling: I have never considered that the narrator of Loved could be male (in particular, the player's mother was always my natural reading) and I think my playthrough just now was maybe the first time I did a fully obedient run after a decade of loving this game.

[acewithobsessions]

Loved is a game that fascinates me because the narrator clearly, unreservedly, despises you. There is no mistaking the contempt in their words as they call you an ugly, disgusting creature. There is no doubt that they fully believe this.

And yet....they love you. Completely. They have seen you for what you are: an ugly, disappointing creature...and they still love you. Not despite it - they don't ignore it, or waste time telling you you're worth it anyway. They berate you and despise who you are, but they still love you.