Kentucky Route Zero
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…
Kentucky Route Zero is an adventure developed by Cardboard Computer, released 7 January 2013 on Android, iOS, Linux and Mac. The main story takes about 12.4 hrs to finish.
What Kentucky Route Zero is
Kentucky Route Zero is an adventure game developed by Cardboard Computer and released in 2013. It is available on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 2022.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Kentucky Route Zero is a 2013–2020 point-and-click adventure interactive fiction game developed by Cardboard Computer and published by Annapurna Interactive. The game follows the narrative of a truck driver named Conway and the strange people he meets as he tries to cross the mysterious Route Zero in Kentucky to make a final delivery for the antiques company he works for.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are drama and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 24 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Kentucky Route Zero holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Players rate it 80, 8 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 12.4 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM and Directx 9.0c compatible video card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Kentucky Route Zero launched on 7 January 2013, within three weeks of DmC: Devil May Cry, ArcheAge, Temple Run 2 and War Thunder. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: DmC: Devil May Cry, ArcheAge, Temple Run 2, War Thunder.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Kentucky Route Zero yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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