Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition

I don't hate Kentuky Route Zero, but it's really hard to be invested in it. There's so much weird going on, but since all the characters are so nonchalant about it, it seemed like I shouldn't feel amazed myself. The game definitely has a lot of details, but they present themselves in such trivial and uninterested ways that I can hardly grip to the story. And what this story even is about? Getting to the Zero? Why should I care? Why do I get to know about Conway being alcoholic so late into this game and only THEN it starts to play crucial role? And what about others? It is yet another time when I admit - I might be missing so much in a game, and it's only because I am too scared to invest any more time into a story without possible pay off. Because I don't even know what I spend my time on.

Fantastic story game, loved the bluegrass music and the overall mystical metaphysical vibe. Would highly recommend adding to the wishlist and getting in a sale. Also the barn scene in the final act was beautiful <3

this is really less of a game and more of an interactive art piece, and I think you'll get more out of it if you think of it from that perspective. it isnt for everyone. it is very slow, and it requires patience, attention, and for you to slow down, otherwise you will get bored and impatient very quickly. its story is unconventional, and it feels like a steady line of things happening rather than having a traditional story structure. it really is more about the experience and being present. dont think too hard about it. theres a lot of dialogue that seems useless and meaningless, but I think it makes the conversations feel realistic, and it can mean whatever you want it to mean to you. people come and go, things happen and exist for seemingly no reason, the ending was anticlimactic and confusing, it wasnt what i expected, but i guess thats how life is sometimes. idk. but the music was good, and i was actually listening to a song from this game before playing it and without even realiz...

I have never played a game like Kentucky Route Zero before. I love narrative single player video games but one thing that always strikes me is their storytelling. Even some of my favorite games of all time like the last of us are fairly basic stories with straightforward plots that take you from point A to point b to point c and so on and so forth. So rare is it that you find a game that isn't about the specific beats of the story but instead how you imprint your own emotions and feelings onto the story itself. It's a concept that is not quite uncommon film which directors like David Lynch being prime examples of this sort of surrealist method of storytelling. He often doesn't tell you how to feel, or really what's even happening in his story. Yet they're not messy, there's a purpose to it all and you need to figure it out but what makes it special is not that it's some sort of puzzle, instead there is really no right answer. You get what you put into it. This is what makes Kentucky w...

Slow, tedious in some cases, and overrated, gives the illusion of choice when instead the story is set, and the player can only influence how events go down and not change them. Just so the game can try to convey a message in a way I personally found annoying.

it's too late to love you now...

My Shannon is brave and strong; my Conway is timid yet stubborn. More than a fixed set of characters and a predetermined narrative blueprint, Kentucky Route Zero feels like a mirror—its story and its people pieced together by the player from fragments of dialogue: the restless ghosts of miners dead in the Kentucky caves; the drifting workers along the Echo River; the vast bureaucracy by the church organ; and the ‘made-up’ inhabitants trapped in Xanadu. The determinacy of the story means that every emotion comes from the player alone, as if the game were quietly reminding us: We cannot decide the course of history, but we can decide how we feel about what has happened. As the echoes of late capitalism drift across fields, forests, distilleries, and rivers, we watch reality slowly deconstruct, dissolving into the grief and reconciliation of the past—melancholy is the word.

It was a pretty high visibility adventure game back in 2013. Didn't get into it, but seems good.

This is a mysterious and interesting game. I liked its focus on narrative, but also the pervasive sense of mystery lurking in every frame. Its minimalism adds to the heavy atmosphere. Road trip games are sometimes action packed and fast paced, but I felt a real sense of peace playing this game despite its themes around grief, due to its pacing and ambience. I liked the sense of existing in a liminal space, where characters from different planes of existence could interact. I'd recommend this game to those interested in a mystery, and a focus on travel and the road trip narrative.

As if David Lynch and David Foster Wallace had a child together.