Kentucky Route Zero

07 Jan 2013

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8.8 rating
920 want
566 played
101 playing
24 reviews
Developer
Cardboard Computer
Publisher
Cardboard Computer
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Main story

9h
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Main story + extras

-
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100% completion

16h
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Summary

Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it. Gameplay is inspired by point-and-click adventure games (like the classic Monkey Island or King's Quest series, or more recently Telltale's Walking Dead series), but focused on characterization, atmosphere and storytelling rather than clever puzzles or challenges of skill. The game is developed by Cardboard Computer (Jake Elliott and Tamas Kemenczy). The game's soundtrack features an original electronic score by Ben Babbitt along with a suite of old hymns & bluegrass standards recorded by The Bedquilt Ramblers.

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A deeply human game. Kentucky Route Zero is deep narrative about the survival of communities through time - how they grow as people find one another, bury their dead, raise their children. Things die, things move.
25 Feb 2023
One of those short poems that sums it all up.
02 Mar 2025
This game made me feel things I didn't know I could, I always say that if the great director David Lynch could make a game it would be something like this one.
I could talk and talk about why this game should count as the greatest work of art of the 2010s but it's not a matter of convincing other people to play it, if you can see yourself drowned in a universe that can't (and doesnt try to) put a line between what's magic and what's real, I strongly suggest this groundbreaking and life changing piece of art.
20 Feb 2024
A theatrical piece about how the land remembers people's passage more than people themselves
08 Aug 2023
Гра не працює на моїй ps4, лише темний екран...

Game doesn't work on my ps4, just black screen
06 Oct 2023
Admirably slow and weird. Does some amazing tricks I’ve never seen and couldn’t even really explain.
20 Aug 2023
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