Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Skip · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 11.3h
- Value
- $1.77/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GeForce 8500 GT (512 MB)/Radeon HD 4350 (512 MB), 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
March 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. It has been discounted 66 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 37 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Eastshade ($24.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Thirty Flights of Loving ($4.99, scores 8).
Of the 530 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 364 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 11.3 hours; clearing it takes 26, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
49% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 23:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
ot exactly state-of-the-art graphics compared to today's games, but this game truly excels where it matters. There are many aspects of this game that can be described as tedious or subpar, but the artistic and narrative effort put into this makes it easy to look past the negatives. It all boils down to preference in this game's case. For gamers who enjoy challenging games highly focused on gameplay and action...
Walking across Depression-era America trading folk stories feels like an absolute poetic masterpiece for the first few hours. Unfortunately, the repetitive gameplay loop turns what should be an epic journey into a bit of a cross-country chore. Still, the atmospheric soundtrack and haunting writing make it worth a stroll if you're in a melancholy mood.
A game with fantastic writing, voice acting and art. Let down by a commitment to ther "feel" of the game which impacts quality of life to the point where the game is a chore. The walking as many have mentioned is painfully slow, the hitchhiking system and fast travel system are more frustrating than not as a lot of cities are dead ends and you need to walk to get away from them. There is also a higher difficulty for...
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Cite this score
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/447120/where-the-water-tastes-like-wineReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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