Kentucky Route Zero
About
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.
Originally published episodically over a span of years, the game now includes all five acts along with the "interludes," which were originally published separately. It has also been painstakingly localized for French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish (both European Spanish and Latin American).
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System requirements for Nintendo Switch
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System requirements for PC
- OS:Windows 7
- Processor:1 GHz
- Memory:512 MB RAM
- Graphics:Directx 9.0c compatible video card
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:250 MB HD space
- Sound:Sound card
- OS:Windows 7
- Processor:1 GHz
- Memory:1 GB RAM
- Graphics:Directx 9.0c compatible video card
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:250 MB HD space
- Sound:Sound card
System requirements for macOS
- OS:OSX 10.5 Leopard
- Processor:1 GHz CPU
- Memory:512 MB RAM
- Graphics:OpenGL 3.0+ compatible video card
- Hard Drive:250 MB HD space
- Sound:Sound card
System requirements for Linux
- Processor:1 GHz CPU
- Memory:512 MB RAM
- Graphics:OpenGL 3.0+ compatible video card
- Hard Drive:250 MB HD space
- Sound:Sound card
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Kentucky Route Zero reviews and comments
everyone says that if you like Disco Elysium this one is for you, but I didn't get that! sure the world is interesting and has a biiiit of the Disco hopelessness, but other than that i don't really see it.
this was my "before-sleep-game" for a lot of months and it really chilled me out before bed, but i guess it chilled me out too much ? i really wish i could get more into it, but it was a bit too passive for me (and i am not one to usually say that!). still, i give it a "Reccomended" because it has a distinct vibe and i'm happy i tried it.
Additional experience may, unfortunately, be inaccessible: either from low awareness (it is impossible to guess to open YouTube simultaneously with one of the interludes), or because of past ARG interactions, one way or another conducted as the acts were released.
However, it’s very difficult to advise this piece of work. After all, I myself sometimes had the feeling that I was experiencing Satantago again. And the lack of voice in the game, the developers clearly propose to fill in the players themselves.
Microsoft from French