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"Even dry and lost places can flourish with a little care": Waterful is a gentle, beautiful puzzler about drawing rivers that makes me yearn for something overwhelming

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell Rock Paper Shotgun
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Genres · indie, puzzle, simulation, strategy
Release · 2027
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