« Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an incredible achievement, and the latest in a growing body of games that really push the bounds of what the medium can do. It is, at its heart, a game about stories, and the incredible power that they have, brought to life in the most beautiful way possible. »

« Where The Water Tastes Like Wine is a surprisingly beefy adventure game, offering over 20 hours of content and a treasure trove of stories that never cease to entertain. »

« For those willing to take the chance, what awaits is a fantastic, mesmerizing trip across America and its parables and oddities throughout the ages, with a journey that’s easy to get lost in full of amazing writing, splendid characters and superb performances all around. »

« As a game devoted to the art of storytelling itself, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine shines with its powerful writing, exceptional voice-acting, and its visual and aural elements that bring players back into the time of tall tales and endless stretches of road to explore. »

« If you enjoy tomes about the wonders of living on the road and meeting people who populate the fringes of society you’ll feel, as you indulge, that you’ve briefly stepped into the legendary shoes of Studs Terkel, John Steinbeck and Maya Angelou all rolled into one. »

« A wonderful, strange, sad trek through the myth of America. [Issue#270, p.52] »

« Where the blood of Chicago’s murdered factory workers pours roaring into the Mississippi Delta and the Devil reverently sings the lowest blues, there beats the heart of a non-existent nation. A narrative tour-de-force through one hundred years of pain, blood, loss, struggle and unlikely triumph. Minor technical issues aside, this is the new high water mark for video games seamlessly crossing over into pure art. »

« There’s a lot to love about Where The Water Tastes Like Wine, from the beautiful and surreal 2D hand-drawn imagery that adds an air of eeriness. In combination with the blues and roots music, it makes for a perfectly atmospheric game with a ton of great catchy tunes. »

« El juego tiene grandísimas ideas y un apartado artístico genial, es fresco y original, pero peca de ser tremendamente monótono, lento y plano. He intentado ponerme con el juego hasta en 3 ocasiones, pero entre la poca información que tenemos sobre nuestro personaje o lo que tenemos que hacer, lo que me impide empatizar con él, ya que además no pasa de ser un mero espectador, y el poco aliciente que ofrece que todo pase tan despacio en un mapa tan grande, lo cierto es que termino por aburrirme. A esto hay que añadir que el juego no está traducido al español y, aunque entiendo bien el inglés, un juego ya de por si lento y basado en las historias se hace aun más pesado si encima tienes que jugarlo en otro idioma. Sin duda lo mejor que tiene es juego es el apartado sonoro, con una música bien ambientada y sobre todo las voces, excelentemente interpretadas y que le dan una mayor inmersión e interés a la historia »

« I'd rather read a good book. In contrast to one of the points made by a critic, this is absolutely not stretching the limits of this medium to achieve good stuff - it is a misuse of the medium. Made with care and love, but as boring as all hell. »

« I was really looking forward to Where Water Tastes Like Wine upon its release. What can be better for a cozy winter afternoon than a good story driven adventure game? And the first hours are really satisfying thanks to the great stories and the marvellous atmosphere! But the problem with this game is, that it´s barely a game. The beauty of the words is incredible, but I´m rather into books or audio books if I want an experience like this. A matter of taste. »

« verry good game and interting story tell a folk in American also a good soundtrack in game »

« Where the Water Tastes Like Wine plays more like a historical experience and exploration of storytelling and the folklore of an age than what most people would consider a proper game, but what it does, it does very well. I found myself engrossed in the stories and in the people. In this I don't just mean the main 16, even those unnamed faceless folks who populated the stories themselves pulled my attention and my sympathy. Having just finished it, I will cede it has numerous problems, many of which could not have been fixed without sacrificing what the fame itself is. But any game that makes me care about people so thoroughly, and compels me forward with nothing but the promise of another story and the admittedly stellar soundtrack deserves plenty of praise. I recommend it to my friends who want such a thing, but if you're looking for a game that drives you forward with rewards and gameplay, best pass on this one. »

« I wanted to like this game, but it's a little too rough around the edges and repetitive. Wandering the depression-era US experiencing and swapping stories sounds thrilling, but it feels more like a board game than anything. One where the rules aren't clear or consistent. The idea is you're a skeleton...kind of... who is searching for a specific story and swapping tales along the way with anyone you meet. You experience your own tales first hand, usually 2-3 sentence summaries given by the main narrator. Then you meet someone at a campfire, tell them a bunch of your stories, and later on end up hearing them on the road, but embellished, again and again and again. So much for the truth being stranger than fiction... One minigame type scenario that comes up is that the folks you sit at campfires with will need to be won over, and you do that by telling them stories they want to hear. "Tell me a creepy story" they'll ask, so you click on one of your creepiest, and there's a fair chance they won't like it for reasons that aren't clear. Makes it difficult, especially when you can only tell these folks each story you have once. The stories themselves are all right. Some are great, but too many edge toward being ghost stories. I love a good ghost story, but when 50% of the tales are ghostly, and another 20% end up being embellished to be ghostly, it's a bit out of balance. The voice acting isn't bad, but the sound mixing makes them feel amateurish. Some of the actors seem as though they were being recorded on very cheap devices. You start in Maine, and by the time I'd reached St Louis (going up and down the coast and Mississippi River) I'd grown tired of the mechanics and the one song that plays over and over and over, just a little too loud. That song was like the game. Flashy at first, but overall repetitive and not-quite-right. »

« My actual review is, again, bigger than 5000 characters. Long story short, it has tons of little annoyances and some great stuff that is clearly made with love and care. All things measured I'll give it a thumbs up. If you already like walking simulators, you will like this one, if you do not like, maybe this one is not the best for you to star with. »

« Where The Water Tastes Like Wine Feels like a bed time story Because it’s going to put you to sleep You lose a card game to a wolf, and to repay your debt he wants you to go out and collect the story of where the water tastes like wine You play as a skeleton character in an old timey gold rush feeling America You go from state to state collecting stories. As you walk across the country you’ll see little bubbles on buildings for you to interact with... these are stories all greatly narrated and are my favorite parts of this game… your job though is to collect not just any story... but a variety of stories... these stories are your stories based on your interactions, so you’re given different choices to mold the type of story you need for your collection, You can try to uplift things if you need a feel good story or a funny story, you can ease drop on a couple for a hopeful story, or one of heartbreak, you can seek sad stories, you’ll find yourself in storms trying your hardest to turn this experience into something exciting, you’ll run into creepy little girls, ghosts, possessions… You can stop at different cities to hear more stories and find jobs earn cash to buy food to keep your health up as you can take damage from some encounters though rare, you can also buy train tickets to travel to other cities There’s such a great variety of stories here to keep this game a little bit interesting… But the delivery of this game is just so slow that it hardly makes seeking these stories out worth it.. With your collection you have to rest at camp spots and earn the trust of the character you run into to get more information on where the water tastes like wine... And this is where the game for me really starts to fall apart… It’s just not fun trying to please them to get them to open up and tell you their stories... they’ll want something funny or scary, exciting... but this is pretty subjective... some stories are black and white.. While others you find funny they might think were a poor attempt to scare them for example… or they’ll ask for something exciting and act confused telling you that wasn’t scary at all… Like girl, that’s not what you asked for. an indication on how the character will react to your story before you use it up would have been nice… as you can only tell them a story once while trying to get through all of their different chapters.. Though as you progress through the game your stories can get stronger as they spread through the country, you can finish a characters chapter with only one good story easily… But it still doesn’t make these sections any more fun… Where the water tastes like Wine is very hit and miss for me… There are some good short stories here and there... but a majority of them are uninteresting and feel like filler, and the slow pace at which your character crawls across this world makes getting from story to story feel like a drag The Art Style is cool, there’s some nice music to enjoy and pull you into this world… But after only a few hours I was bored out of my mind. I give Where the Water Tastes Like Wine a 5.5/10 »