Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition

80% Very Positive

3,254 Positive

790 Negative

4,044 Total Reviews

KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.

$24.99

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Genres:

Adventure Indie

Developer: Cardboard Computer

Publisher: Cardboard Computer

Release Date: February 22, 2013 (12 years ago)

Game Details

Achievements

Average Playtime

8 hours

Estimated Owners

200000 - 500000

Peak Concurrent Users

Recommendations

2,886

Metacritic Score

81/100 View

Median Playtime

10.9 hours

🌐 Official Website: kentuckyroutezero.com

📧 Support Email: [email protected]

About This Game

At twilight in Kentucky, as bird songs give way to the choir of frogs and insects, familiar roads become strange, and it's easy to get lost. Those who are already lost may find their way to a secret highway winding through underground caves. The people who live and work along this highway are themselves a little strange at first, but soon seem familiar: the aging driver making the last delivery for a doomed antique shop; the young woman who fixes obsolete TVs surrounded by ghosts; the child and his giant eagle companion; the robot musicians; the invisible power company lurking everywhere, and the threadbare communities who struggle against its grip. KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game in five acts, featuring a haunting electronic score, and a suite of hymns and bluegrass standards recorded by The Bedquilt Ramblers. Rendered in a striking visual style that draws as much from theater, film, and experimental electronic art as it does from the history of videogames, this is a story of unpayable debts, abandoned futures, and the human drive to find community.

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