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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a adventure, indie and story rich game
developed by Dim Bulb Games and Serenity Forge
and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
Released on February 28th 2018 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 5 languages: English, French, German, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 1,613 reviews of which 1,227 were positive and 386 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.48€ on Eneba.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E4500 (2 * 2200) or equivalent/AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (2 * 2200) or equivalent
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce 8500 GT (512 MB)/Radeon HD 4350 (512 MB)
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 6 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.8 or Later
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or faster
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5750/Nvidia GT 450 or higher
- Storage: 6 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or later
- Processor: Intel from 1.2 GHz or equivilent AMD family
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5750/Nvidia GT 450 or higher
- Storage: 6 GB available space
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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine might best be summarized as a game that is vastly more than the sum of its parts; the travelling can often feel slow, the fatigue and health mechanics are often a little half baked and unclear, sometimes shifting between too much and too little in surprising succession. And yet for every slight gameplay frustration, this game always offers something fantastic around the corner; a perfectly thematically timed strum of an Appalachian banjo in the East or a beautiful spanish duet guiding me into the southwest of New Mexico and Arizona. The central premise of the game revolves around the repayment of a 'debt' incurred by losing a card game with the devil, collecting and spreading stories across America as you travel. Stories grow in the telling, and a suspiciously familiar story about a strong woodsman may turn into the legend of Paul Bunyan, or a story of a winged goat laying in the ruins of a New Jersey house becomes that of the Jersey Devil. The character's you meet are often 'elevated' archetypes, pastiches of American life out of time and place; cowboys, bonus army vets, coal miners, Harlem Hell-fighters and dustbowl refugees, in order to bring out their true stories, you need to swap the ones you've collected with them to get them to open up. Stronger, stranger stories work better, so the incentive is to roam the lands and absorb as much as you can; whether the stories are funny, sad, scary or thrilling and so on. In that sense, you don't so much explore the map to 'collect' as you do to create and spread the American myths and legends of the land. The conversations you share with your fellow travellers are essentially short stories told in sharp exchanges that are equally striking for what and what isn't said: Some are on the road by choice, others are forced out, they face conflicts with the lands, the contradictions external and internal, and they're all elevated by the fact each traveller often has a different writer, which lends more weight and authenticity to the intensely personal stories you'll hear. The writings are often political, personal and reflective treatises on how the country has changed for both the better and worse, delivered with the kind of confidence to come off thoughtful rather than preachy. Confidence is present throughout this game, particularly in the presentation, scrawled drawings, vivid fantastical and religious imagery all set to an *incredible* soundtrack that shifts to fit where you travel. All of it comes together to form a cohesive and compelling journey across America that scratches that 'roadtrip' itch for me in a way many conventional games simply wouldn't even think to do; a trip defined by memories and conversations, and not the mechanical act of moving itself, which is definitely fortunate as the travelling systems are far from ideal, and I will admit that I was using the fast travel items in the last third of the game, but your mileage may vary with how much this undermines your experience. Where the Water Tastes Like Wine really comes to life as a tale of humanity spread form coast to coast, from the fleeting half-glimpsed stories you don't complete, to the classic american legends, and the visions of its people that give the land their textures. This game will hinge on its narrative, not its systems; it is greater than the sum of its parts. Fortunately for this game, I found the writing to be superb through and through. This isn't a game that's going to reward you with ticking numbers and streams of achievements, in fact one is very deliberately unachievable in keeping with the themes of wanderlust and struggles to find contentment both external and internal, and much like the gold bars in New Vegas' Dead Money, everyone hates it and tries to break it apart. If that's the kind of gamer you are, then frankly this game isn't going to be for you, that's fine. If you're a strong advocate for games as art however, in the vein of experimental re-toolings such as Papers Please and Kentucky Route Zero, it might be worth a look, even if it isn't exactly everything you want, it's a testament to the plethora of forms video games can take.
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For the most part I really liked all the different stories and characters. I also enjoyed the vibe of walking around America, though towards the end when I was trying to collect everything it did get a bit tiring.
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I'm pretty sure most ppl will find this underwhelming but it really depends on how you interact with it. If you put in the effort and spend time with the stories its really really rewarding and enjoyable and unforgettable. I rewrite each story in my own words, really make it my own and each story becomes something I cherish. I use this game as fuel to rekindle my love of America, it inspires me to go out and seek old photographs of 20s bootleggers and listen to field recordings of new england ballads
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Very quickly became one of my all-time favorites. There's something calming about this game. Something painfully human.
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Well, at first I got this game just for a profile background that caught my eye. But the more I played the more it rekindled my love for stories, that I forgot I had years back. Thank you.
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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine received 1,227 positive votes out of a total of 1,613 achieving a rating of 7.32.
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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine was developed by Dim Bulb Games and Serenity Forge and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a single-player game.
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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine does not support Steam Remote Play.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
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Serenity Forge
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Good Shepherd Entertainment
Release
28 Feb 2018
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