Platforms
- PCFeb 28, 20187.5playscore7.226 Critics7.9811 Players
- PlayStation 4Dec 02, 20197.5playscore7.36 Critics8.183 Players
- Xbox OneNov 29, 2019NAplayscore6.94 CriticsNA0 Players
- Nintendo SwitchNov 29, 2019NAplayscore6.710 CriticsNA0 Players
42 critic reviews · 1 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- This game isn't worth a deal with a devil, but it could be worth it for you if there's a good deal. Just don't put up your soul as collateral.
Joseph Doyle · Jan 15, 2020 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - As an interesting intellectual exploration of the role that word-of-mouth plays in storytelling, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine plays like a proof of concept that never graduated beyond an initial prototyping stage. Sure, it has plenty of narratives to uncover, but ultimately the repetitive, shallow mechanics prevent the experience from meeting its full potential. Despite the best efforts of the excellent visual presentation and voice acting, the net product is a hollow shell of what it couldâve been.
Blake Grundman · Jan 02, 2020 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - Hunting down stories is easily the best part of the experience because they’re well written and you never know what to expect. The only thing I liked about the drifter encounters was that they will share your stories with other people and I liked how they would take on a life of their own. Where The Water Tastes Like Wine is a fascinating idea for a game that is probably best experienced in small, shorter doses.
Allen · Dec 30, 2019 Reviewed on Switch - Ultimately, I think your mileage will highly depend on how the stories land with you, and whether the act of walking is a delight or a burden. I do think Where The Water Tastes Like Wine is worth a gander, just don’t expect a swan song of a tale or gut punch metaphor about early America. Enjoy it for it what it immediately offers: a fun series of tiny vignettes and discoverable characters to unwind with. Forget the rest.
Ricky Knight · Dec 10, 2019 Reviewed onRead full review - 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.
Joe Devader · Dec 05, 2019 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - Where The Water Tastes Like Wine fills your screen with all manner of illustrative visuals, scenes which look like they were ripped straight out of classic novels. They’re thick with ink, dripping with bright painted colours and oozing atmosphere that helps sell a story, even if said campfire recollection outstays its welcome for far too long and puts you back into a repetitive grind of travel and storytelling.
Darryn Bonthuys · Dec 03, 2019 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - 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.
Becca Smith · Nov 29, 2019 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - The stories are too brief to have any real depth and the rest of the gameplay is atrocious. They had a good idea here, but failed to deliver it in any sort of a compelling manner. If you have insomnia and are looking for something to help you fall asleep, consider picking up Where the Water Tastes Like Wine.
Heidi Hawes · Nov 29, 2019 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - At the end of the session (or the game, really), you develop a deep sense of attachment to stories that weren’t yours. But you carried them across the land, you watched them change, you learned and taught, each success or failure just another in a string of opportunities in a land chock full of them.
Vrothgarr · Mar 14, 2018 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Where The Water Tastes Like Wine almost certainly won't appeal to everyone, but if you can look past its sometimes myopic design, you're sure to fall in love with it.
Jimmy Donnellan · Mar 12, 2018 Reviewed on PCRead full review
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Community Reviews
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About the game
Trailers & Screenshots:
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. Players wander across a folkloric Depression era United States at their own pace, meeting strangers with their own stories to tell. Through these interactions, players will be able to collect unique stories which can then be re-told to unlock new interactions. In this way the in-game stories themselves act as a currency to progress through the game, and it’s up to the player to pair the right story with the unique needs of each of the characters that you will encounter throughout your travels. Only through these right pairings will characters reveal their true selves, and bestow you with the most powerful stories, the true ones which reveal something about their own lives. In Where The Water Tastes Like Wine, stories organically take on a life of their own as they grow larger and transform as they're told- and re-told.
Developer: Dim Bulb Games