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.
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.
The game is developed by Cardboard Computer (Jake Elliott, Tamas Kemenczy, and Ben Babbitt), and features an original electronic score by Ben Babbitt along with a suite of old hymns & bluegrass standards recorded by The Bedquilt Ramblers.
The game is split into five acts. Acts I, II, III, and IV are available now. The remaining act will be released when itโs completed. Taken as a whole, Kentucky Route Zero is roughly the length of a summer night.
Key Features
Kentucky Route Zero Key Features:
1, A focus on characterization, atmosphere and storytelling rather than clever puzzles or challenges of skill.
2, A unique art treatment inspired by theatrical set design.
3, A haunting score accompanies the ambient sounds of the bluegrass state.
4, Wander the highways of Kentucky.
5, Make some friends before morning.
6, DirectXยฎ:9.0c
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | 1 GHz | Intel Pentium III / AMD Athlon MP |
| CPU SPEED | 1 GHz | |
| VRAM | 128 MB | |
| RAM | 512 MB | 512 MB |
| OS | Windows 7 | Win Xp 32 |
| Graphics Card | DX 9.0c card (NVIDIA GeForce 6500 or ATI Radeon X1550) | nVidia GeForce FX 5200 / AMD Radeon Xpress 1200 Series |
| Direct X | 9.0c | DX 9 |
| SOUND CARD | Yes | Sound card |
| HDD Space | 250 MB | 250 MB |
| Game Analysis | 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), but focused on characterization, atmosphere and storytelling rather than clever puzzles or challenges of skill. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Optimization Score | 10 | |
| Minimum System Requirements | ||
| CPU | 1 GHz CPU | |
| RAM | 512 MB RAM | |
| OS | OSX 10.5 Leopard | |
| Graphics Card | OpenGL 3.0+ compatible video card | |
| SOUND CARD | Sound card | |
| HDD Space | 250 MB HD space |
| Minimum System Requirements | ||
| CPU | 1 GHz CPU | |
| RAM | 512 MB RAM | |
| OS | Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 or newer | |
| Graphics Card | OpenGL 3.0+ compatible video card | |
| SOUND CARD | Sound card | |
| HDD Space | 250 MB HD space |
It’s one of those “I’d rather not call it a game, but an art project” type of releases that we’ve got so many this year.
It’s a point and click adventure in style with barely any gameplay, you follow along a person and his dog on a strange journey that asks many questions and doesn’t like to give answers. Minimalistic strange graphic design will most likely not get in your way, but is not really great to look at if you are not a fan of Picasso or smth like that ๐
Most of the time spent in this game is reading dialogue and descriptions of items. Probably going to be even more convoluted in later chapters, but I do not care to find out.
PS. I don’t think this is even out fully yet, they seem to be releasing chapters once in a while and I’m not sure how many of them will be there really, but unless you are really intrigued by what you’ve read – don’t bother. =)