- Publisher: Annapurna Interactive
- Release Date: Jan 28, 2020
- Also On: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 81 Ratings
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Positive: 51 out of 81
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Mixed: 13 out of 81
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Negative: 17 out of 81
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Mar 25, 2021a grab bag of 20th century theater apeing and david lynch fanfic without any real art in sight, utterly painful
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Dec 31, 2020Bar none one of the worst games I’ve ever played. Pretentious annoying claptrap that could be forgiven if there was any gameplay to speak of. Horrible
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Apr 3, 2020Doesn’t even classify as a game. Clicker on a rail. It started out well written and promising but each subsequent chapter made it obvious there was never a vision for the project from the get to.
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Mar 5, 2020Boring...so boring! People should rethink about the word masterpiece...this is just a bla bla bla with no gameplay. Is not a video game, it's a time waster game
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Dec 30, 2020I have a nagging felling gamers who are blown away with this game probably simply never read a book. Same as with "What remains of Edith Finch", this is not a game but a visual novel. KR0 might appeal to David Lynch fans - everybody else should approach it with suspicion.
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Jan 25, 2022I found kentucy route zero boring and tedious. I pushed myself to play for 2 hrs in light of the positive reviews but starting ACT 2 and being made to ride an elevator up and down several times to simply find an address without any real story or character development became far too monotonous for my liking (and i endeavour to always finish games I start). i had to give up on this one.
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Feb 20, 2023Had this one wishlisted for a while and was excited to pick it up on sale, but I found it very underwhelming. The story didn’t have any real purpose or depth. It’s weird just for the sake of being weird and nothing else. Maybe I’m missing the point but this one’s definitely not for me.
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Jan 20, 2021To speak of entrancing elements, head writer Jake Elliott has taken nearly ten years to spin the intoxicating yarn present in this game. He is frequently fussy in his prose (and obtuse in proximity to reality) throughout Kentucky Route Zero but nonetheless deserves a massive amount of praise. He runs with each environmental detail and every stray thought presented by the main characters, giving them ample space to breathe and worm their way into your thoughts. The excellent dialogue and theming are well-supported by Tamas Kemenczy’s polygonal vector art visuals, which suffuse each scene with a haunting beauty fit for this weary, broken world. The characters are blank-faced, but they require no expressions to communicate their state of being with clarity and appropriate gravitas.
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Feb 28, 2020Kentucky Route Zero tells a story unlike anything else you'll find in gaming. It uses a point and click adventure format that's pretty basic, but hits high notes with its dialogue, themes, and music.
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Feb 27, 2020Kentucky Route Zero takes place in your head just as often as on the screen. Not only the story is vague; everything is vague. Developer Cardboard Computer apparently knows exactly how graphics, sound and storytelling can support your imagination. Goosebumps. David Lynch would be proud of it.