Incredibly pretty environment, beautiful cinematic intro, and great mood with the radio. Only criticism is the small and simple gameplay loop of collect and drop.

Yep, that's water of life alright. Cheers, comrades.

Beautiful game! First time making Russian moonshine and I don't think I did too badly ;)

The radio music fits very well in the game, kinda made me just wanna sit there and not do anything LOL. The journal was a very helpful guide! The interaction between objects can be a little funky sometimes. Graphics are also very well done, the color palette reminds me of some vintage movies and aesthetic(which works great with the music btw). Mood is 6/5 to be honest. Great work!

Cool graphics and animation) And yes, the journal vas very useful, as first I couldn't understand, what to do. But overall I enjoyed the game. Great job!

Beautiful graphics, loved the experience. Great job overall.

gonna try the recipe. let's see :)

Nice graphics and atmosphere ; thanks for the visit of your kitchen :)

Nice looking game, I thought the space was a bit clostraphobic but I did like the Mousetrapesqu gameplay of assemboling the contraption. Though putting it together was a bit buggy. I had to restart a few times because I picked up the wrong part and when I let it go it fell through the floor.

Amazing really aaaaaaaaamazing !

Amazing! Nice game, very intresting. Thank you!
Спасибо, что был на стриме и помогал проходить. Ну и научил делать самогон. Всех благ)

As someone who grey up in Russia, all of the scenery and the entire game was eerily familiar! Loved the game, didn't hurt to have one of the developers in my stream helping me play it, but i think i would've got the hang of it, fairly easy! Great job guys

This was a pleasant game to play indeed- following your grandfather's directions to create the "Aqua Vitae", a noble task for the player with an ending I should've seen coming :P The graphics gave a very eastern european feel, especially paired with the choice of music gave a pretty neat atmosphere. And while the gameplay was fairly simple, the payoff was rewarding. Great work!

Great game, the music is one of the best parts. Cool idea and great execution, well done!

The music and art is awesome! Also learned a lot lol.

The art was AMAZING! Very nice gameplay as well (sorry for breaking the gas stove @zimennik )

If you made an entire USSR simulator like this, I would pay good money for that game. Gives me "My Summer Car" vibes. A simple and wonderful game.

Played on stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/598996300

great game! we had a lot of fun with it. super funny. thanks for submitting!!

If the graphics were actually made during the 72 hour period, that is extremely impressive. I think this probably qualifies more as an experience rather than a "game". As an experience, I think it is quite good -- however as a game it is lacking interesting decision making. The only real aspect of the game that you can 'mess up' is allowing the pressure to build up unnecessarily.

Overall, I enjoyed your game. Thanks for bringing it by for me to play.

@kosmo Hi! Actualy all graphics was made in 72 hours by 1 man.
It was an interesting experience. Since I lived 20 years in an apartment with a similar kitchen )))

After I found my matches I finally was able to finish it!


A unique experience! It was a cool idea and I don't think I've played anything like it. I know that it wasn't original material but choosing to include the radio really contributed to the game's mood. Good job!

awesome experience, very atmospheric

Once played, I really hope my grandfather had taught me how to make "water of life" haha well done, I like the russian setting comrade!

Samogon vitae! This game it's a fine simulator of booze brewer. Nice polished work.

Cool experience. Really enjoyed myself. It felt very natural to manufacture the device with the help of the journal. The graphics were really cool and I liked the small apartment room as a set piece. Enhanced the mood a lot. The sound effects were very good as well. The story could've been expanded more to make a greater impact, but thats all I can think of as criticism. Great entry, keep it up!

Amazing ambience/enviroment, the attention paid to all the sounds is phenomenal, and the kitchen also looks great, almost comfy in a strange way, with very nice graphics as well.
As a game it's kind of odd, manipulating items is kinda clunky and there's a lot of small places you have to click, making it harder, but what is there is nonetheless polished very well.
The diary also looks very nice and it's good that it has the controls on it.

@duke, @730 Thank you so much for your feedback! Like the guys who grew up in such an apartment, we put A LOT of work into the atmosphere. Now we are working on a full game. There will be a detailed plot and much more enjoyable controls.

looooooooooool я раньше не знал как сделать водку, а теперь я знаю. спасибо

Very cool game, it made me miss visiting Russia/Belarus a lot, I might just sit with the radio on for a while. And now I know what to do with my kartoooshka lol. Thanks.

Manege to get the stream back up, Did comment a bit more on the whole thing there, but in case you missed it; I think it is a very fun idea and the different endings add a small amount of replayability! Really looking forward to see if you guys can take this idea futher, I think there are much potential for more to do in this small kitchen :D

Hello! Your game was played during my stream!

If you want to know the timestamp of when your game was played you can see it in this spreadsheet:
https://tinyurl.com/yau8hjzn

And then look in my latest videos and find your game being play (after the current stream ends)
https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos

good job man cool game!

God, what a fucking masterpiece, jesus christ. So god damn atmospheric. The radio broadcast blows my mind, the gameplay has just exactly what it needs to bring you in; not too complex but not too simple. The art is just sublime (except the background outside the window, but of course, 72 hours). I may not have grown up in the soviet union, but I once went to the east berlin museum, and the kitchen looks exactly like what I saw there, down to the color of the walls, the floor and the fridge.
If I have one complaint, is that the valve on the milk can is basically useless, since it lowers one valve way more than the other, which means you're forced to eventually turn of the gas and wait, because if you don't you either blow up or don't make any progress. Perhaps this is the way making bootleg alcohol IRL is, but it doesn't make for a very exciting gameplay mechanic.
This is seriously the best game I've played this ludum dare, and I'm not sure if I'll find one that's better. You guys really outdid yourselves.

This was truly unique and an amazing experience that I didn't want to end. It totally immerses you in the setting, so much so that you feel like you really are making some moonshine and that your creation will become reality. You did an amazing job with this all around, a certainly memorable entry. Thanks for playing it with us on Stream!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/604980872 - you can see us playing here.

I've seen it streamed so many times I thought I would do better than I did lol but it's a very solid jam game. Lots of polish, great mood, and no obvious bugs during my playthrough. I'm sure you already know but this could be a fun VR experience, too!

Hey,
Here's the VOD from my stream wher I played your LD46 Entry if you're interested:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/611069349

Thanks for the submission!

Great graphics! I wish the help book was actually on the table or something. I included it in my Ludum Dare 46 compilation video series, if you want to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/HbpVWKRHlfc

Hey @jupiter-hadley! Thank you for playing! In fact, the journal is on the table. You can open it by clicking on it (but we also made it so that you can open it on the TAB for convenience)

i wanna drink it!! thanks for watching our streammmmmmm

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out. If you'd like to watch again, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255766

I can tell you that I learned a few things during this game :D Really enjoyed the mood that you set with the audio and visuals and presentation of the instructions was in line with your mood.

Amazing! 👀 I don't drink, but I still saw this and thought it looked incredibly unique and atmospheric, so I had to give it a try!

Unfortunately was a bit too heavy for my poor laptop, but I got a taste of it! Happened to have watched a video just days ago on how distillation works, so I did know what the coils and everything was for haha. I expected a really moody ambient soundtrack from the screenshots, so the happy radio music caught me of guard! Тебя люблююююю~ 🎵

You did a great job setting the mood with this and creating something unusual. Very cool! Looks and sounds very good. 💜