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Kentucky Route Zero

Original title: Kentucky Route Zero - January 7, 2013
Kentucky Route Zero
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Game Details
DeveloperIGDB
Cardboard Computer
PublisherIGDB
Cardboard Computer
Studio
Cardboard Computer
GenresIGDB
Adventure, Indie, Point-and-click
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Linux, Android, iOS
Release DateIGDB
January 7, 2013
Metacritic ScoreMetacritic
86
Game Engine
Unity 2022

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.

About the Game
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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.

Source: Steam

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Data aggregated from 4 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Steam, Metacritic
Last updated: 27.08.2026
Time to Beat
Main + Extras12h

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Language Support
Language
AudioSubUI
Japanese
Spanish (Spain)
English
Italian
German
French
Russian
Korean
Spanish - Spain
Spanish - Latin America
Arabic
Polish
Portuguese - Brazil
Simplified Chinese
Swedish
Thai
Traditional Chinese
Turkish

Source: IGDB + Steam, store.steampowered.com

Content Rating
Use of Drugs
Language
Bad Language
ESRB T
PEGI 12
ClassInd: 12
ESRB: T
IGRS: 18
PEGI: 12
USK (DE): 12
Game Features
Single-player
Steam Achievements
Full controller support
Captions available
Steam Cloud
Remote Play on TV
Family Sharing
System Requirements
Minimum
GPU:Directx 9.0c-compatible 3D graphics card with 256 MB VRAM or more, Hard drive space: 250 MB HDD,Mouse & Keyboard
Available On
Community & Media
Data aggregated from 4 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Steam, Metacritic
Last updated: 27.08.2026