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Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition

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.

Recent Reviews:

Mixed (22) - 68% of the 22 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.

All Reviews:

Very Positive (2,819) - 82% of the 2,819 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Feb 22, 2013

Developer:

Cardboard Computer

Publisher:

Cardboard Computer

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By Adult Elite Gamers February 20, 2018

“Do you like reading? Do you like weird games? Do you like a poetic take on a game? A surreal atmosphere and mesmerizing music? If yes then buy it and play through it.”

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Features

Steam Achievements

Captions available

Remote Play on TV

Languages:

	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	✔		✔
French	✔		✔
Italian	✔		✔
German	✔		✔
Spanish - Spain	✔		✔
Russian	✔		✔
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Japanese	✔		✔
Arabic	✔		✔
Korean	✔		✔
Polish	✔		✔
Portuguese - Brazil	✔		✔
Simplified Chinese	✔		✔
Swedish	✔		✔
Thai	✔		✔
Traditional Chinese	✔		✔
Turkish	✔		✔

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Age rating for: ESRB

Includes 24 Steam Achievements

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Death of the Hired Man

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Title: Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Genre: Adventure, Indie

Developer: Cardboard Computer

Publisher: Cardboard Computer

Release Date: Feb 22, 2013

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Awards

IGF Excellence in Visual Art
Game Developers Choice - Best Narrative
Indiecade - Visual Design
Indiecade - Story & World Design
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - "Game of the year"
Game Developer Choice Awards - Best Narrative
Destructoid - Best Musical
Killscreen - Game of the year

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Reviews

"Smart, thoughtful, sweet and incredibly well crafted – it’s the perfect game to play in the small hours of a lonely night. Be warned though; it’ll leave you hungry for unknown roads and longing for an invitation to the blues."
Rock, Paper, Shotgun

"Evokes the feeling of old ghost stories told around a campfire. There's the familiarity of friends and family around a warm, man-made fire, but with it comes the unnerving tale of the strange and unusual. Kentucky Route Zero is beautifully bizarre and perfectly poignant, and most of all, deserves your attention."

9.5 - Destructoid

"However you respond to its ethereal imagery, this is a game which makes a rare suggestion: who a player is may be more important than what they do."

84/100 - PC Gamer

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.

System Requirements

Windows

macOS

SteamOS + Linux

Minimum:

OS:Windows
Processor:1 GHz
Memory:512 MB RAM
Graphics:Directx 9.0c compatible video card
DirectX®:9.0c
Hard Drive:2.5GB HD space
Sound:Sound card

Recommended:

OS:Windows
Processor:1 GHz
Memory:1 GB RAM
Graphics:Directx 9.0c compatible video card
DirectX®:9.0c
Hard Drive:2.5GB HD space
Sound:Sound card

Minimum:

OS:OSX
Processor:1 GHz CPU
Memory:512 MB RAM
Graphics:OpenGL 3.0+ compatible video card
Hard Drive:2.5GB HD space
Sound:Sound card

Minimum:

Processor:1 GHz CPU
Memory:512 MB RAM
Graphics:OpenGL 3.0+ compatible video card
Hard Drive:2.5GB HD space
Sound:Sound card

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