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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Developer Dim Bulb Games, Serenity Forge
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an adventure game developed by Dim Bulb Games and Serenity Forge, and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. It was released for Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows in February 2018. In November 2019, Serenity Forge announced that Where the Water Tastes Like Wine would also be released on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. In August 2021, PM Studios published a… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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60 of 111 · most liked firstIf Kentucky Route Zero is the Great American Novel of video games, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is the Great American Short Story Collection
unlabelledView post →Where the Water Tastes Like Wine ($1.99) - you gambled against a wolf - and lost. to repay your debt, you'll wander depression-era America and spread stories like seeds, trade them with others, watch them grow as they pass from mouth to mouth. big rec for this. store.steampowered.com/app/447120/W...
unlabelledView post →I've kept Where the Water Tastes Like Wine installed for a couple years now, hoping that one day I would feel inspired to come back and finish it, but I never do. The problem is that the game only has about 6 hours of decent content, but it has been stretched out to well over 12 (my play time at the point of giving up, somewhere west of the Missouri). At first glance, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine falls somewhere between a walking sim and a VN. You walk around America exploring,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Where The Water Tastes Like Wine ($1.99) - you gambled against a wolf - and lost everything, even your skin. to repay your debt? you must wander across Depression-era America, spreading stories like seeds, watching them grow and change. highly recommended. store.steampowered.com/app/447120/W...
unlabelledView post →Where The Water Tastes Like Wine is an astonishingly groundbreaking game and we are forever diminished as a culture that so few people know about it.
unlabelledView post →BONUS PITCH FOR WHERE THE WATER TASTES LIKE WINE: the wolf you gamble against? is voiced by none other than musician, actor, and heartthrob of Your Moms all over America, Sting.
unlabelledView post →BONUS PITCH FOR WHERE THE WATER TASTES LIKE WINE: the wolf you gamble against? he is voiced by none other than musician, actor, and favorite of Your Moms all over the world, Sting.
unlabelledView post →A lot of people offering up free VO services but also: don’t forget SAG-AFTRA launched a new indie scale agreement several years ago specifically for low budget projects. This agreement is, IIRC, how you ended up with Sting voicing a character in Where the Water Tastes Like Wine.
unlabelledView post →Yall dreams do come true Hired Ryan Ike to do my game soundtrack He's amazing Hired my dad too, legendary studio guitarist Dad's in the living room improvising to Vagrant Song from the Where The Water Tastes Like Wine soundtrack It's beautiful Im in awe In this moment, life is good 😭😭😭
unlabelledView post →In keeping with the sentiment of "you should play some non-corporate games once in a while," here are some narrative games about American identity I'd recommend to anyone who wanted more Tural in 7.0 (all on Steam and PS*): - NORCO - Where the Water Tastes Like Wine - Kentucky Route Zero**
unlabelledView post →ADDITIONAL PITCH FOR WHERE THE WATER TASTES LIKE WINE: the wolf you gamble against? he is voice by none other than musician, actor, and idle fantasy of Your Moms everywhere, Sting. (and the game is only 2 bucks right now, come on, that's less than a can of monster)
unlabelledView post →Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an unforgettable video game experience that is about the power of storytelling. Blending folklore and americana into something both distant and not too distant, a game made for wandering and wondering.
unlabelledView post →1000% this. NORCO is incredible, alongside Kentucky Route Zero and Where the Water Tastes Like Wine.
unlabelledView post →Where The Water Tastes Like Wine ($3.00) - you gambled against a wolf... and you lost. to pay your debt? you must wander depression era america, spreading stories like seeds, trading them with others, watching them grow and change over time. store.steampowered.com/bundle/6307/...
unlabelledView post →Majestic and beautiful game, with lots of culture and a top-of-the-line soundtrack. Lots to read and travel. The only flaw is that unfortunately it is not fully translated (if you want to play it in Italian it is partially translated), this means having to deal with sometimes complex English. Despite this, the full price is worth it. my rating 9/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Where the Water Tastes Like Wine ($1.99) - you gambled against a wolf... and lost it all. repaying your debt means wandering across Depression-era America, spreading stories like seeds, watching them grow as you trade them back and forth. highly recommended. store.steampowered.com/app/447120/W...
unlabelledView post →Where the Water Tastes Like Wine ($1.99) - you gambled against a wolf... and lost. to repay your debt, you must wander depression-era america and spread stories like seeds, trading them with others and watching them grow. great soundtrack. huge rec from me. store.steampowered.com/app/447120/W...
unlabelledView post →To be short: this game excels in everything but gameplay. The voice acting, music, art direction, and writing are all top-notch, having you collect hundreds of interesting and often-supernatural stories across America during the Great Depression. It features some of my favorite writers from other narrative-focused games — Emily Short, Olivia Wood, Bruno Dias, Cat Manning, and Austin Walker — and when the light hits just right, it's an excellent experience. To get to these stories, though,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I say that but he did also play the vore wolf in Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
unlabelledView post →Where the Water Tastes Like Wine functions less as a conventional game and more as a slow moving journey through American mythmaking. Progress isn’t measured in mechanics or mastery, but in conversations, voices, and fragments of lived experience passed from person to person. It’s a quiet, reflective work that knows exactly what it wants to be and executes that vision with confidence. What surprised me most was how compelling the stories became. Not just those of the central characters, but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BONUS PITCH FOR WHERE THE WATER TASTES LIKE WINE: the wolf you gamble against? he's voiced by none other than musician, actor, and favorite of Your Moms all over the world, Sting.
unlabelledView post →FOLLOWUP PITCH FOR WHERE THE WATER TASTES LIKE WINE: the wolf you gamble against is voiced by none other than musician, actor, and idle fantasy of Your Moms everywhere, Sting.
unlabelledView post →Did a lecture this evening with my students focused on Where the Water Tastes Like Wine + narrative design and got so excited about it my partner asked about the game + immediately grabbed it. She’s been loving it so far, and this is my inspiring story of the day lol
unlabelledView post →AI Could Never: Where the Water Tastes Like Wine by @stolisomancer.bsky.social "It’s a game that fundamentally does not work without its sense of humanity; it’s a story about stories, and what it means to be alive at the same time as all these other people." Read on:
unlabelledView post →Where the Water Tastes Like Wine ($1.99) - you gambled against a wolf - and lost. to repay your debt, you must wander depression-era america, spreading stories like seeds, trading them with others, and watching them grow and change in retellings. store.steampowered.com/app/447120/W...
unlabelledView post →FOLLOWUP PITCH FOR WHERE THE WATER TASTES LIKE WINE: the wolf you gamble against? is voiced by none other than musician, actor, and heartthrob of Your Moms everywhere, Sting.
unlabelledView post →When the developer is satisfied with the brilliant play of adding an unachievable achievement because the place where the water tastes like wine doesn't exist for whatever artistic pursuit they are seeking for, you need to suffer from: 1. BUGS There is a well-known bug that could lead to unseen stories not showing while the icon labels them on the map. There are tricks that have some chances to recover those stories but not guaranteed, and some stories will be forever missing. The main…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tried this one out and played it to the end. Got 235/237 stories. Unfortunately, while the whole game starts out with a cool concept and great vibe, the controls are tedious. Many of the mechanics aren't even explained. (What does sleep do???) For a game about stories and narrative, it doesn't... tell you much. You don't even get to backtrack to recount any of the cool encounters you get, nor read the stories you've collected in full. You can also collect all the stories and end up not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Where The Water Tastes Like Wine is set during the United States' Great Depression, a period of economic collapse in the 1930s. As such, the game focuses on stories about characters struggling to survive and dealing with the loss of their jobs and their homes. There is this sort of overall bleak sense of hopelessness, but you still have many stories that showcase the strength and determination of people to overcome adversity and find a way forward. What may be interesting to note, for those…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reviewing (mostly) every game (or DLC) in my library, part 261: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆☆ (7/10) I want to love this game more than I do. Where the Water Tastes Like Wineis one of the most singular narrative experiences out there—dreamlike, poetic, and undeniably striking. But for every moment that swept me away, there was another that had me mashing the walk button, waiting for something—anything—to happen faster. It’s the kind of game that feels like a fever dream: you wander the vast American…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is janky AF and ruining my experience, but I can't help coming back, trying to push through the jank to get bugged out stories. I've seen all the stories (I think), I'm looking forward to say goodbye and leave this janky game, but this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game still haunts my mind. I've played narrative heavy game like Failbetter games (Fallen London, Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies) and Roadwarden. These so called "walking simulator" sprinkled with resource management mechanic. Where Water Tastes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't get me wrong, there's definitely merit behind the concept of the game. The stories are also generally interesting and there is even a good narrator. However, I feel like the game is just far too tedious and there isn't sufficient reward for going through that tedium. The map is large, the movement speed is deliberately slow, whistling to go faster just makes a one handed game needlessly become a two handed game. Once you've played for a while, the map becomes very empty and there is zero…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In no particular order, Sif's has similar vibes/themes to: - Firewatch - Borderlands - Where the Water Tastes Like Wine - Dishonored (Yeah, Red Dead too, but that would have been too easy. 😉)
unlabelledView post →"It's an artgame. The walkspeed can be whatever we want." No it can't. Go away. The vibes and writing and music here are fine and if the game just shuffled events and dealt them to you from a deck of cards this would be a nice casual little experience but listen. You. You the person that's reading this. I want you to go on youtube and look at this game's walkspeed. Best of luck to the devs, the graphics and music are dope, I hope the next game is playable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not strictly against games being used as art, but I feel there's a point where something could be way easier to appreciate as a different form of media. This game has thought-provoking dialogue, a captivating soundtrack to compliment the story, and marvelous voice acting. The problem is that it's hard to appreciate all of these good elements when the gameplay lulls you into a catatonic stupor of boredom because the gameplay does not go past slowly shuffling through a barren overworld. This…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BONUS PITCH FOR WHERE THE WATER TASTES LIKE WINE: the wolf you gamble against? he's voiced by none other than musician, actor, and favorite of Your Moms all over the world, Sting.
unlabelledView post →If there only was a place "Where the Water Tastes Like Wine"... First, I like the game. The stories are great, the narrator is top-notch, and the music couldn't be better for the theme of the game. Yet, the walking simulator put a huge toll on my enjoyment of the game. This game would have been fine as a visual novel without the need to walk around on a map. I do understand why you would want a map here, but it could've been included in the storytelling without the walking part. Not to sound…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very slow skeleton
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In short, a lovely collection of illustrations and super short stories themed after Americana and wanderlust, but not a fun game. Also has an unachievable achievement. The idea of the game greatly interests me and I don't want let my criticism of it dampen the good work the voice actors, writers, and illustrators who collaborated on this game. With that being said, there's a laundry list of necessary improvements that need to be implemented before I would recommend playing it as a game. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →KAMGUSTA's mini Review I wouldn't call this a game. Seems like developers decided to create a visual novel with a 3D world, but they sure do not have great abilities on game developing, as everything feels very amateurish. But this is not the biggest problem. Game is plain boring. You walk around the map in a super slow motion. The "stories" you should collect are a joke, just 3 rows of text. Nothing else happens. I am astonished there are people that could enjoy this... thing. Stay away!…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good idea with miserable gameplay.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Walking across Depression-era America trading folk stories feels like an absolute poetic masterpiece for the first few hours. Unfortunately, the repetitive gameplay loop turns what should be an epic journey into a bit of a cross-country chore. Still, the atmospheric soundtrack and haunting writing make it worth a stroll if you're in a melancholy mood.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has interesting elements of storytelling, but it just plays so f'ing slow for no reason. I get that they are trying to lean into the whole drifting around the country collecting stories theme but it still doesn't justify the excruciating amount of time it takes to traverse the map for me. The game would be a lot better if you could just have point and click and faster movement in a 2D panoramic format, would allow the player to focus more on the story aspect. Also, the UI and menu…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would buy a physical pack of tarot cards from this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting aesthetic. Pleasant soundtrack. Decent writing. Great voice acting. And an absolutely miserable way to navigate it via gameplay. You slowly walk from one random location to another to pick up a couple of paragraphs that make a short story. Rinse and repeat. It really drags. It's pretty much like listening to an audio book with a two minute break between paragraphs. Someone needs to recycle the content into a 2D map where you can click to fast-travel and interat with the actual…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bum-punk graphomaniac visual novel with slow walking between map points to flip-through the pages. Painfully stereotypical characters tell you short unexciting stories, you collect them & spread around for magical clout points. This overpriced water definitely tastes like dawg-water.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very quickly became one of my all-time favorites. There's something calming about this game. Something painfully human.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The judges would also accept The Dire Wolf from Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, though he's less clearly a "villain..."
unlabelledView post →Check out a game called “Where the Water Tastes Like Wine” Depression-era(ish) US. You make the mistake of gambling with this guy. You’re now a skeleton tasked with wandering the country collecting stories. And spreading the stories you collect. And watching them change in retelling. /1
unlabelledView post →This is a terrible, awful game. Horrible game mechanics. Annoying walk speed. Bugged to hell by the end of my run, causing me to miss stories (this at least does not affect completion, but affects overall enjoyment). Every game-design criticism you've ever heard about this game is correct. Oh, and most of the trailers are just straight misleading about the overland graphic quality. But wait, with all that said, I'm still recommending the game? Well, yeah, duh. It's a story-rich, artsy…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Where the Water Tastes Like Wine ($1.99) - you gambled against a wolf - and lost. repaying your debt means wandering across Depression-era America, spreading stories like seeds, watching them grow as you trade them back and forth. i highly recommended this one. store.steampowered.com/app/447120/W...
unlabelledView post →The idea, the premise and the artstyle are incredibly compelling; I wanted to play the game so bad because I saw screenshots of the vignettes and UI somewhere, and just found it so unique. Unfortunately, the actual game is a bit of a let-down, which I am pained to admit... The first couple of hours are fun because everything you experience is new, but the gameplay quickly sours the experience. You get to walk around slowly and tediously, and I could actually have enjoyed it, if not for the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I. I have a whole anthology of games I want to do. Like a mini-zine devoted to my favourite games turned TTRPG. Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (an MMOTTRPG of trading stories) Wanderstop (solo journaling game of tarot & tea) House of Many Doors (Endless exploration in the dark)
unlabelledView post →I like walking I like reading Job done ✔️ This game may not be to everyone's taste but I find it to be an enjoyable one to kick back and chill with.. The characters are engaging and the collective stories Interesting. The player's choices during the discovery of particular stories can change the theme of the story from humorous to scary etc and the growing of stories due to their retelling means they have a bigger impact upon the disposition of the listener. The walking can indeed be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting premise, fantastic music, narration and art style. It ultimately fails to muster an interesting gameplay loop or put together ideas in a cohesive form. Not to even mention the terribly slow pace.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The concept is interesting, but the game's slow pace makes it dull and unentertaining. Story: 4.5/10 Gameplay: 3/10 Music: 9/10 Art/ graphic: 3.5/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting concept, but strange implementation. We are collecting stories, so why there is no proper categorisation? What is the point of misleading themes of the said stories? Maybe stories about depressed people and bleeding animals are funny to the devs? Because they are categorised as funny here. I`m sure that`s not the case to the majority of players, these stories are supposted to be sad, no? Another major problem — the way we move around the map. Its very slow and you have to move…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →im not much into story rich games but this one is so gripping and calm, the unfolding of stories as you go is also interesting, havent played anything like this yet
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Low-key masterpiece. If you know, you know. 10/10 NOT FOR: people who don't like country/traditional American music, people who don't like slow, thoughtful pacing, or otherwise are not interested in American geography/history FOR: People who like reading, literature, mythology, American culture. If this is you, this game is an absolute diamond in the rough, grab it immediately.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the idea, the art and Sting are great, but the gameplay does not work at all. I think it failed to make you feel like an explorer. you're walking from town to town, and it doesn't feel like an adventure of any kind. it should have.
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