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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

Dim Bulb Games, Serenity Forge · Good Shepherd Entertainment

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Quick read

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a folkloric road: you walk, you collect stories, and you retell them.

What kind of game is it?

Story collection dressed as travel: you gather tales, retell them, and move across a mythic America. Combat is not the point.

Who is it for?

For players who chase tales across a mythic America and retell them.

How it plays

Loop: Exploring a map
Sessions: Medium sessions
Progression: Campaign
Players: Single-player
Structure: Linear
Tone: Dark · Accessible

Game DNA

What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.

Progression80
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Story82
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Social18
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Session commitment52
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Key Steam facts

Steam store figures, checked 13 Sept 2026.

Release

released

2018-02-28

Review score

76%

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Steam positive percent.

Review count

1,745

Checked 13 Sept 2026.

Store price

$19.99

Checked 13 Sept 2026.

Languages

Demo

Early Access

Next Fest

Players

Single-player

How many people play Where the Water Tastes Like Wine?

Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.

Estimated copies

44k – 96k

Steam reviews × 25 to 55.

Estimated gross revenue

$440k – $1.5M

Copies × current price × 50–80% (sales, regional prices). Before Steam's cut, refunds and tax.

Median playtime

8.1 h

Half of 300 recent reviewers played 2.5–16.1 h. 22% under 2 h.

Where the players are

Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.

English44%
Simplified Chinese37%
Russian10%
German2%
French2%
Ukrainian1%

Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026

What makes it different?

You gather tales, retell them, and watch them change as you cross a mythic America.

Core mechanics

Narrative choice

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Genre / subgenre

Adventure

Steam genre: narrative.

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Related teardown

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine — launch intelligence

Exceptional press coverage, a top-tier cast of writers, an original song by Sting — and a commercial failure documented publicly by its creator. The clearest public warning of that decade.

Read the launch analysis →

Sources

Store price checked 13 Sept 2026.

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