Loved is a browser-based platform video game developed by Alexander Ocias, an Australian graphic designer and artist.

Research was taken into achieving "certain little fiddly things," Ocias explained, such as generating the text elements and instructing Flash to read his tile maps.

[5] According to Ocias, the main themes of Loved were of dominance and power, since to provide a fuller answer would "defy the point of the game".

[6] Writing for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Kieron Gillen called the atmosphere "genuinely oppressive" and the game's cogitation between free will and control "really quite excellent".

[9] Chris Priestman of Kill Screen found the game provoking of "gut reactions" and noted a sexual undercurrent throughout it.

[4] Writing for the official website of G4, Brittany Vincent called the game "especially curious" in its depiction of a dominant and submissive relationship and a "fantastic case" of the medium "pushing the margins of human emotion".