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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

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…

70 28 February 2018

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an adventure developed by Dim Bulb Games, released 28 February 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.

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What Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an adventure game developed by Dim Bulb Games and released in 2018. It was published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 38 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 15 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 26 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core2 Duo E4500 (2 * 2200) or equivalent/AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (2 * 2200) or equivalent, 1 GB RAM and GeForce 8500 GT (512 MB)/Radeon HD 4350 (512 MB). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB.

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What it launched against

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine launched on 28 February 2018, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Sea of Thieves, Into the Breach and Burnout Paradise Remastered. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Sea of Thieves, Into the Breach, Burnout Paradise Remastered.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine — frequently asked questions

When did Where the Water Tastes Like Wine come out?
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine was released on 28 February 2018 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Where the Water Tastes Like Wine?
At minimum, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine needs Intel Core2 Duo E4500 (2 * 2200) or equivalent/AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (2 * 2200) or equivalent, 1 GB RAM, GeForce 8500 GT (512 MB)/Radeon HD 4350 (512 MB) graphics, 6 GB available space of storage.
How long does it take to beat Where the Water Tastes Like Wine?
The main story of Where the Water Tastes Like Wine takes around 15 hrs, or 26 hrs for 100% completion.
How many GB is Where the Water Tastes Like Wine?
The PC version needs about 6 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("6 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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