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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
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.
Details
- Released
- February 28, 2018
- Developer
- Dim Bulb Games, Serenity Forge
- Genres
- Puzzle · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Indie
- Publisher
- Good Shepherd Entertainment, Serenity Forge
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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Like its titular drink, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine has a distinct flavor that certain connoisseurs will really appreciate.
The term 'Walking Simulator' is often used as a pejorative to dismiss narrative-based adventure games that are often light on gameplay elements, despite being
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a narrative driven adventure game that takes place in Depression-era America. You play as a traveling skeleton who, after losing a game of cards with a wolf-man, has to collect stories from your travels as you traverse the landscape. As you meet fellow travelers and drifters you tell them your stories and in exchange they tell you their most powerful and personal stories of struggle, hope, life and death.
Overall, if you enjoy a very slow burn game that really seems better suited to being played for an hour or so a day, or just really want something with a huge focus on narrative, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine may scratch that itch. Those looking for a game with more varied gameplay probably won’t find much to like here, however, as just walking around an admittedly bland map will likely come to bore you sooner rather than later. The game has value and I certainly enjoyed my time with it, but its Switch debut likely won’t turn any more heads than its original release did.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an adventure game, inspired by the folk tales and folk music of America, about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.
I remember when I was in grade school, learning about the tall tales of characters like Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan and completely missing the point of these legends. Unlike other stories that were birthed thousands of years ago or had huge volumes dedicated to their analysis, the phenomenon of the “American Tall Tale” was a relatively new concept that grew out of the country’s rapid expansion. But that was about where my interest in these more modern-day myths came to an abrupt end. Thankfully, Where The Water Tastes Like Wine explores this phenomenon in more depth through the lens of eme...
A story packed adventure which spans across the USA, with some wonderfully written stories, a fantastic soundtrack, and some sublime voice acting. However, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is let down by a map that is too large often resulting in a lot of time spent walking, doing nothing.
With a lovely art style and an entirely intriguing concept, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is unlike anything you’ll have played before. Its uniqueness makes it worthwhile, but some slow-moving elements, inconsequential mechanics and a few lacklustre stories mean it doesn’t stand out quite as much as it should.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an anthology where you trek across 1930s America as you try to settle your debt to the wolf man.
There's a pervasive sense of disappointment to When the Water Tastes Like Wine. For all its invention and forward-thinking, there's a profound feeling that the mark has been missed. In truth, it does very little to justify itself as a video game in the first place, given that most of the player's time is spent moving painfully slowly across a monotonous, samey map of America with no clearly defined goal. It's a failed experiment through and through, but all the more painful because it could have been so much more. There is space in gaming for narrative output like this, but they need to be car...
Visual novel type games can be really difficult to make interesting. There’s usually very little gameplay elements involved aside from just clicking a button to move to the next page. Occasionally there will be moments where you can make choices that affect the story, but beyond that there’s usually not much else to do except experience the story. The strength of the story is what makes or breaks these types of games. Where the Water Tastes Like Wine from Serenity Forge is not just one st...
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a new game that explores the nature of stories through interactivity. It’s the debut release from Dim Bulb Games