If you’ve got an Xbox One, a PlayStation 4, or a Nintendo Switch then today you are in for a treat as the delightfully named Where The Water Tastes Like Wine has launched. And if you’re in the market for a bit of a storyteller, then this could well be your best bet.
Where The Water Tastes Like Wine has come about via the creative minds of Dim Bulb Games and Serenity Forge, as they deliver an imaginative experience the way of console gamers.
Telling a tale that focuses efforts on American folklore and history, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine will see you travelling the wonderful land, meeting an eclectic cast of characters and sharing stories as you go. Engaging with these guys is what this experience is all about and throughout your time with Where The Water Tastes Like Wine you’ll not only be able to wistfully imagine, but will get the chance to delve deep into the personal tales that you stumble upon.
And when these character’s lives are written be a selection of accomplished authors, before seeing the voice acting skills of the likes of Sting, Dave Fennoy (The Walking Dead), Cissy Jones (Firewatch), Kimberly Brooks (Mass Effect), Sarah Elmaleh (Gone Home), Melissa Hutchison (The Walking Dead), Elizabeth Maxwell (Zelda: Breath of The Wild), Mike MacRae (Kingdom Hearts), and many more bringing them to life, you’ll fast learn why this game is so special.
Drop in a stunning combination of hand-drawn 2D illustrations with a wonderful 3D world, and a price tag that sits at just £16.74, then the stars are certainly aligning for this one.
Features include:
- Travel the Depression-Era United States, laboring to pay off a debt by learning the true stories of 16 signature characters across a wide range of American experience from migrant workers to a travell
- As you explore, you’ll encounter strange and unsettling things: slices of a country built on dust clouds and murky dreams, where the folk tales are bleeding through. You’ll carry those tales with you,
- The stories you share will return to you along your journey, changed in the telling as they’ve made their way around the country. As you meet the characters time and again on your travels, they will g
- Beautiful combination of 3D overworld and hand drawn 2D illustrations
- Original stories written by a wide selection of accomplished authors
- A hauntingly beautiful original soundtrack arranged by celebrated composer Ryan Ike and featuring performances from a collection of gifted musicians.
- An emerging fantastical, psychedelic and surreal overarching atmosphere.
Our full review of Where The Water Tastes Like Wine is up and alive and should certainly be taken in, but should you wish to give this a punt, get on over to your favoured digital store – with us obviously hyping up the power of the Xbox Store.
Make sure you let us know if you decide to grab a copy of this intriguing tale too. The comments are down below.
Game Description:
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.
