Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

A unique game about collecting and trading stories across the American Dust Bowl doesn't give much room to craft your own story in the process.

A continent-sized anthology of American campfire tales that will keep pulling you in deeper, once you acclimatise to its slow pace.

There are beautiful and tragic scenes, songs, and passages to find in WTWTLW's journey, but they're spread far too thin.

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine celebrates storytelling but loses the plot

Where The Water Tastes Like Wine shines with its incredible voice work, well-told stories that take on lives of their own, and many profound moments

'Where The Water Tastes Like Wine' is a giant leap forward for video game storytelling

For me it ended up being more water than wine.

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an excellent exploration of stories and the meanings we place upon them. It's a road trip game through the American landscape that's punctuated by astounding writing and entertaining encounters. There's nothing quite like it, and it's doubtful that there ever will be.

There is space in gaming for narrative output like this, but they need to be carefully tailored to be games first and experiences second. You don't even want to know what this water tastes like.

A truly unique adventure, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is not that far from sweeter waters.