Where the Water Tastes Like Wine cover

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

Critic score9 critics
First release
Feb 28, 2018
Engine
Unity
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Indie, Adventure, Puzzle · Historical

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.

Also known as WTWTLW.exe

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Storyline
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.Read more

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.

Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Feb 28, 2018
Mac
Feb 28, 2018
Linux
Feb 28, 2018
All 7 release dates
Nintendo Switch
Nov 28, 2019
PlayStation 4
Nov 29, 2019
Xbox One
Nov 29, 2019
Nintendo Switch
Nov 29, 2019
Time to beatIGDB · recorded
Main Story
12h
Main + Extras
15h
Completionist
26h
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
First person, Third person
Keywords
exploration, great depression, walking simulator, narration, folklore
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At a Glance

Critic Score
70
Main Story (IGDB)
12h
Main + Extras (IGDB)
15h
Completionist (IGDB)
26h

Overview

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Steam users rate this Mostly Positive, 1,428 reviews in all languages, recorded 16 October 2026

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