Where the Water Tastes Like Wine Download PC

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.

Gameplay

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a narrative-driven adventure game. Players explore a Great Depression-era United States, hearing and collecting oral stories and passing them along. Stories are used as a form of progression, with characters gradually opening up to the player in response to the provided stories, which in turn allows one to learn their true stories. The player may purchase goods to replenish their hunger or tiredness, with money being earned and then spent on the aforementioned goods, or in faster means of transportation. Several means of transport are available, including walking, hitchhiking and freighthopping.

Development and release

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine was developed by Dim Bulb Games and Serenity Forge. The game was published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. The game was released for Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows on 28 February 2018. According to the developer, the game's initial release was a commercial disaster.

On November 8, Serenity Forge announced the game would be coming to the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on November 29.

Reception

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine received "generally favorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. It was awarded the Developers Choice Award along with Walden, a game at the 2017 Indiecade Festival. However, in the months following release, creator Johnnemann Nordhagen wrote in his postmortem, "I can’t discuss exact numbers, but in the first few weeks fewer people bought the game than I have Twitter followers, and I don’t have a lot of Twitter followers," and "At the end of the day it’s astounding that a game that got this much attention from the press, that won awards, that had an all-star cast of writers and performers, that had a bizarre celebrity guest appearance(!) failed this hard." Nordhagen writes, "Basically, I’m not sure that games like this one can continue to be made in the current market."