- Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny. Featuring gorgeous hand-drawn illustrations, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine combines 2D visuals with a 3D overworld US map.
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Character
Contemplative, grave, character-led and open-ended.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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Digitally DownloadedMar 20185/5 starsIn short, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an incredible achievement, and the latest in a growing body of games that really push the bounds of what the medium can do. It is, at its heart, a game about stories, and the incredible power that they have, brought to life in the most beautiful way possible.
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Nintendo EnthusiastDominick AshtearNov 20199.5/10That being said, you shouldn't go into this one looking to speedrun it. Like, well, a fine wine, this game is meant to be savored. Play half an hour a night, maybe an hour. The stories will still be there for you. Your friends might hop from town to town, but you'll always be able to find them. And if you're unlucky, or perhaps lucky, the Wolf will also find you.
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Game InformerElise FavisFeb 20189/10Where The Water Tastes Like Wine shines with its incredible voice work, well-told stories that take on lives of their own, and many profound moments
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Cubed3OfisilFeb 20183/10Another example of that latest trend of videogames with "high artistic quality," Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is not something brand new, unique, and meaningful, but something boring, boring, boring that uses big words to say things that aren't that interesting. Oh, and it has Sting in it…
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Nintendo LifeStuart GippNov 20194/10There is space in gaming for narrative output like this, but they need to be carefully tailored to be games first and experiences second. You don't even want to know what this water tastes like.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Dim Bulb Games, Serenity Forge
- Publisher
- Good Shepherd Entertainment, Serenity Forge
- Released
- February 28, 2018
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person, Third person
- Engine
- Unity
- Time to beat
- 12 h rushed · 15 h main story · 26 h completionist
IGDB rating 6.8/10 from 26 ratings.
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