Kentucky Route Zero: The Complete Season

"At the end of a tumultuous decade, it’s only natural to reflect on the years gone by. And here comes a great game to cap the previous decade—and signal the start of something new. If I hadn’t already spent the …"

"Kentucky Route Zero is a game for those who are happy to slowly digest the measured nuances of a text heavy, but visually stunning and thought provoking adventure. Narrative weirdness abounds but it is anchored by a cast of charming …"

"Kentucky Route Zero is a game that I&s;m still thinking about days after reaching its conclusion. Though it&s;s slow (maybe too slow for some) and introspective, it&s;s also an exceptionally engaging interactive experience. If you are into the slow burn …"

"Kentucky Route Zero is a one of a kind storytelling experience, but I&s;m not entirely sure what story it is trying to tell."

"There are few other games like Kentucky Route Zero. The point-and-click/text-based adventure captures the economic anxieties and the loneliness of America in 2020, but it still manages to be hopeful amongst the tragedy. You don&s;t want to miss this."

"Cardboard&s;s work is an incredibly rich, complex, personal experience, but for which it is very easy to feel empathy, since it manages to tell from the popular and human perspective bigger events of each of us. A piece of video …"

"A work of art that I can’t recommend enough."

"Kentucky Route Zero is a fascinating story with a thick atmosphere and themes which will leave you thinking longer after playing each act. It&s;s one of the best stories I&s;ve ever played or read in a video game, and I …"

"While it took me a while to get into it, I enjoyed my time with Kentucky Route Zero."

"Although its moment to moment gameplay might not always hit the mark , the captivating story and colorful cast of characters make Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition a journey worth taking."

"Kentucky Route Zero is lost in the illusive premise of the American Dream but found in the elusive dream logic of its weird, wild, and wonderful prose. Through it all are characters who conceal pain and loss with whimsical musings …"

"I&s;m not in the unenviable position of giving a score to a game with no generic touchstones or precedence. I can&s;t help but laugh at the absurdity at giving a score to something like Kentucky Route Zero. Did it accomplish …"

"When I stumbled across that grave not 20 minutes into the first act, there were only three surnames listed as “the unfortunate.” Márquez, of course, but two others: “Padilla” and “Nowakowski.” Two names which pierced me on a supernatural, haunting …"

"Developped during nearly a decade, the last episode of Kentucky Route Zero has finally arrived, and with it the complete edition of the game. It can almost be considered as an interactive fiction, but with a real attention given to …"

"Even with a downright cavalcade of triumphs, Kentucky Route Zero&s;s strongest asset is its ability to redefine itself from episode to episode. The deeper your journey goes, the stranger things get, but the more they make sense too. While the …"

"Above all, Kentucky Route Zero is an argument that games can be more. That argument isn’t nearly so revolutionary now as it was in 2011 when development began, or 2013 when the first act released. We’ve (thankfully) made some decent …"

"Kentucky Route Zero is a coffee table book of a game. I don’t feel like you’re really supposed to try and take it all in as a whole. Instead, KRZ, with it’s myriad of references and views, seems like it’s …"

"Though it seems to be a traditional adventure game at first, this is an enticing and bizarre tale unlike anything you&s;ve played before"

"Those intoxicated by the game&s;s dreamy brew may argue that there are no detours—that, like the Zero, you&s;re either on it or you&s;re not. If you&s;re anything like me and Conway, however, you&s;ll be somewhere in-between."

"After seven years, Kentucky Route Zero reaches the end of the road, and the full portrait it paints is melancholy and sorrowful but also absolutely beautiful."

"Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition from developer Cardboard Computer is still a work of art after all these years. The game is thick in story, choices, and interesting characters that you never want to ignore."

"Kentucky Route Zero tells a story unlike anything else you&s;ll find in gaming. It uses a point and click adventure format that&s;s pretty basic, but hits high notes with its dialogue, themes, and music."

"An arrestingly surreal triumph that blends point &s;n&s; click and text adventures with a unique style of storytelling and gameplay that was well worth the extremely long wait."

"Kentucky Route Zero is a masterful piece of interactive storytelling. Mysterious, mercurial, and exquisitely beautiful."

"Cardboard Computer&s;s elusive adventure game gets a final episode and a console edition, but don&s;t wolf it all down at once."

"Kentucky Route Zero is a brilliantly told story that takes chances, and unapologetically is what it is. Sounds suspiciously like art to me. Damn good art."

"Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition is the full and complete Kentucky Route Zero experience. A magical realist point-and-click adventure that takes you on a beguiling journey to a place that exists both below and beyond. It&s;s a trip to be …"

"Part point-and-click radio play, part adventure game audiobook, Kentucky route Zero is as much of a journey in sound as it is a meditation on surrealism. I&s;d nominate it for the Booker Prize in literature before I&s;d hand it a …"

"A transcendent magic realist adventure, Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition is a singular experience that rewards perseverance and commitment to its vision."

"Kentucky Route Zero isn’t a game for everyone, and as a piece of art it is bizarre and gives no clear answers. However, it doesn&s;t have to, and instead allows its characters the room to breathe and push forward its …"

"Kentucky Route Zero is a maddeningly obscure visual novel, both beautifully dull and mundanely fascinating. It will no doubt split opinion, but if you enjoy an abundance of metaphor and some quirky introspection, it will definitely tick your boxes."

"I tried so hard to love this game, but in the end, I only really liked it at best."

"Kentucky Route Zero is about America in a way few games aspire to be and fewer still succeed at."

"Kentucky Route Zero is a beautiful poetry generator in the body of a point-and-click adventure game."