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Our Life On Water

Platform(s): PC
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publisher: Different Tales
Developer: Different Tales
Release Date: 2024

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'Our Life On Water' Is A Life-sim RPG Coming To PC, Early Access In 2024 - Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on Nov. 10, 2023 @ 12:15 p.m. PST

Our Life On Water is a magical life-sim RPG inspired by floating villages on the Mekong River.

Befriend spirits of the Mekong River to build and protect your floating village. Drift, farm, fish, forge friendships, fall in love. Shape the tale of a world worth saving.

Our Life On Water employs the soothing mechanics of farming, crafting, and building but steers them toward a more adult-oriented direction compared to most typical life-sim games. Infused with the poetics of magical realism, OLOW aims at telling a bittersweet story of a beautiful world in decline. The game takes place in Sahakom, a fictional country influenced by real-life Cambodian and Vietnamese waterborne settlements. This extraordinary part of the world grapples with environmental threats, societal issues, and conflicts that are reflected in the game's storyline.

Being Rivertalker, you will embrace a simple life replete with daily chores such as boating, fishing, diving, breeding animals, and many more. You will establish friendships with the locals, discover love, yet frequently confront challenging moral decisions to shape the story. Faced with growing dangers posed by the modern world, Rivertalker will be compelled to turn to the River Spirits, along with Yla... a conversational otter.


Key Features:

  • Life-sim focused on relations: Enjoy slow life in a floating village. Use your charm and wits to bring people together. Find a way to create a strong, resilient community, where people help each other and can endure hard times together.
  • Living magical world: Enjoy monsoon scenery inspired by Cambodia with a supernatural twist. Live on the river, explore the enchanted land of Sahakom, travel by boat, dive to uncover mysteries of the past. Find mystical artifacts and deal with the River Spirits to rebuild your community. Do it all with help from your loyal shape-shifting companion Ylathe talking otter.
  • Well-known gameplay - now on a river: Collect bamboo and trash, recycle, craft items, build river structures and houses, fish, work with other people, take care of plants and crops, breed animals, explore, swim, dive. The river setting adds unique flavor to each of those mechanics.
  • Story-rich experience with mature choices: Experience life in a tightly knit community, where tradition opposes modern life, cultural identity is in danger and environmental balance is fragile. Your decisions can influence the whole community and how the village looks like. Can you get people closer, so they can help each other?

Our Life On Water is in development for PC (Steam), Early Access in 2024.


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