Разработчик: Cardboard Computer
Описание
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO — игра в жанре магический реализм в пяти актах, с запоминающейся электронной музыкой, а также набором гимнов и мелодий в жанре «блюграсс» от группы The Bedquilt Ramblers. Эта история о невыплаченных долгах, несбыточном будущем и людях, ищущих место в обществе. Великолепный визуальный ряд игры вдохновлен театром, фильмами и экспериментальным электронным искусством — в не меньшей мере, чем историей видеоигр.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german, spanish - spain, russian, spanish - latin america, japanese, arabic, korean, polish, portuguese - brazil, simplified chinese, swedish, thai, traditional chinese, turkish
Системные требования
Windows
- OS:Windows
- Processor:1 GHz
- Memory:512 MB RAM
- Graphics:Directx 9.0c compatible video card
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:2.5GB HD space
- Sound:Sound card
- OS:Windows
- Processor:1 GHz
- Memory:1 GB RAM
- Graphics:Directx 9.0c compatible video card
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:2.5GB HD space
- Sound:Sound card
Mac
- OS:OSX
- Processor:1 GHz CPU
- Memory:512 MB RAM
- Graphics:OpenGL 3.0+ compatible video card
- Hard Drive:2.5GB HD space
- Sound:Sound card
Linux
- Processor:1 GHz CPU
- Memory:512 MB RAM
- Graphics:OpenGL 3.0+ compatible video card
- Hard Drive:2.5GB HD space
- Sound:Sound card
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kentucky route zero
This game might be the most important piece of interactive media since the dawn of computer technology, and its influence will be felt far into the future. It is not a game in the traditional sense but rather a meticulously crafted virtual experience that has defined its own grammar, established a new identity, and attracted a unique type of player. It is a game for musicians, cinema enthusiasts, readers, artists, and even for those who have never played video games before or felt unsure about how to engage with them. It is also for individuals contemplating the artistry of video games or, more profoundly, the idea of games as a form of art.
The game raises profound questions about the impact of interactive media and how it can influence us. It does so in a straightforward manner while delivering a powerful aesthetic and emotional experience.
At times, it may feel slow or uneventful, but it is also frequently beautiful, atmospheric, and impactful. Spending time in the world of Kentucky Route Zero and engaging with its characters can be an immensely rewarding experience that stays with you for years to come.
atmospheric point-and-click with arresting storytelling and gorgeous visuals.
reminded me of how sometimes people existed so briefly like they were never there
典型的慢游戏，需要用一整天安安静静地体验。镜头和氛围非常印象深刻，文本朦胧晦涩，充斥个人体验细节。风格太突出，怕会是一个孤品。
I still need to figure out where the Zero is
Phenomenal from start to finish
Disco Elysium for hillbillies. 10/10
I'm glad that I was just barely smart enough to understand most of this game. BARELY. Be warned it is EXTREMELY SLOW, but also very very beautiful and haunting. Pick this up on a slow and quiet day if you want something to ponder.
KR0 is the forerunner and the capstone of the direction of indie in the 2010s. To me, it’s the definitive game of the decade. The game is a thinker, it’s dense and doesn’t always go down easy. But every moment of frustration and confusion I felt momentarily only served to reinforce the beautiful, disquieting atmosphere and the haunting narrative. KR0 is best experienced with a lot of time and thought in between each act.
Some people have accused the game of being dissatisfying and aimless, but I suspect they approached it with the wrong mindset. The game is a work of art, it compels you to stand and study it until your eyes water and your legs hurt. In drifting passively through a gallery with impatient, wandering eyes you will miss the “good part”. Below the stunning scene composition, music, and attention to detail, the truly “good part” of KR0 is the indescribable feeling it pulls out of your heart, one you didn’t know was even there. Disquieting is one (incomplete) way to put it. Its illusory “aimlessness” is the shadow cast by the fact that every single little thing is connected to everything else, in its own way. The game is electric. Like radio and TV static, an infinite web of people, relationships, insecurities, histories, economies, appears as grey noise from afar. KR0 makes the player to listen to this noise, to hear voices in the static, to see ghosts on television, to meet its characters as wavelike perturbations in the electromagnetic field. KR0 is for those willing to read and to linger.
Played for 4.5 hours and have no idea what is going on.
english teacher gaming
Fine i'll play Disco Elysium too.
10/10
Something is coming
Or maybe it's already gone
Either way, the atmosphere of this game, is unmatched. You'll know exactly what your experiencing in vibe only, save for some moments of clarity. Whether those moments are from you or the game itself is for you to find out.
This game is slow, as some slow dreams where reality, imagination and quirks go together in an apparent logical flow.
ok
The kind of game that leaves you with a lot to think about.
No idea what the &^%$ Im playing, way above my head.
Even though the beginning seemed to be a bit boring to me I kept going and it was awesome, it's truly a real good and unique experience.
i am heartbroken
a 2010's-ish Appalachian ghost story in a surrealist, point & click, Midwestern adventure.
Anyone who misses &/or grieves the country life in one regard or another, or who's curious about a metaphorical way of storytelling & commentary, will appreciate this game
In case yer wondering, 5 Dogwood Drive, Carlisle, Kentucky, is real, but it's been broken up into about 6 lots, and no telling if it's still on the market or not. Be nice if they'd build what you see at the end of Act V
i mean i don't know what's going on yet but i love the humor of this game so much
If you graduated art school and feel your degree was worth it, this is the game for you.
For all else, don't waste your time. This is a "modern art" piece which makes everything a shallow abstraction so that you can pretend to be smart by mocking the people who "don't get it." In reality, there is nothing to get. But the sycophants will point to the times it touches on alcoholism, addiction, debt, etc. which all sound really deep and mature, but what you get is endless upyourass dialogue with no real decisions to make.
It's not a game, it's not *even* a point and click adventure. And it has nothing to say either. Oh wow the main character mesomorphs into a spooky scary skeleton and floats away how profound.
Kentucky Route Zero is the first game that I wish were a screensaver, and I do not mean that in a disparaging way. Just that it is unendingly gorgeous between its abstract and surreal interpretations of Appalachian landscapes and also suffers the standard "slow gameplay is meaningful gameplay" curse of so many adventure games. Hey, if you are going to have something be eternally ponderous, at least make it a truly passive experience instead of making me feel like I am going to scream because it takes two full minutes for my character to incredibly slowly walk through a screen.
I admit I did appreciate the extra "hahahaha eat shit!" from the designers choosing to give the protagonist a bad leg in Act II and make his already-intolerable movement speed even slower.
But my standard bristling hatred for slow movement in games aside, I have primarily praise for Kentucky Route Zero as the rare "mostly serious" adventure game that is still actually worth checking out. It helps that it infuses its seriousness with a healthy dose of absurdity and dream logic--not in the puzzle design fortunately, but in the environment and characters instead--and that, again, it has some of the best visuals of any pixel art game ever. Honestly its moonlit or flashlightlit segments are up there with just about the best of any game.
But yeah, adventure game fans should all own this one, and people like me who think they like adventure games sometimes and then remember other times that they actually hate them will still find a lot to love here.
KRZ is a combination fever dream and compelling story of people searching for something. The world is fleshed out. Good voice acting.
There a few locations where soliloquies get tiresome if you choose to hear all of them. You can always drop out if you wish.
I'm glad i played this.
Don't repeat my mistake: 'Magic realism' is often just code for nonsense. This game showed me just how deep my disdain for hollow pretentiousness runs.
this is boooring
This game was awesome. Deep, atmospheric, and though-provoking, very artistic, with a mystical feel throughout.
poetic.romantic.aimless. resembled the life itself. loneliness is always the friend of freedom, but a wanderlust would enjoy its company.
I think this is the most beautiful piece of digital art I have ever consumed. I have such strong emotions about this game and how it portrays emotions, hope, hopelessness and acceptance to such a degree I struggle to put it into words.
I have read a comment on youtube regarding this game that I think says it better than I ever could:
There are no choices, you are simply telling the game who you are.
If I could experience this game for the first time once more in my life , I would do so in a heart beat.
Kentucky Route Zero is something closest to a lyrical narrative in a video game. At times, it doesn't even feel like a video game, but rather a visual novel; sometimes it's a text-based game, sometimes an adventure, and at other times, an animated theatrical performance. The different genres that the game so gracefully and gently employs work very well interwoven, so thinly that they almost break apart, but that never happens, and the game remains consistent in the poetic language it establishes from the beginning until the very end.
I have an incredible urge to share some moments from the game that are so beautiful and striking, but I think that would be a spoiler, and it's important for you to experience them yourself. You’ll want to share them with someone too, because the game is that moving!
10/10 perfect game. Be very very patient, calm, and quiet.
very atmospheric. slow, but good.
would love a Remastered edition with voice acting.
there's a handful of areas of the game where auto pathing gets stuck/obstructed and the camera is spinning so slowly that you dont know what/how the character is getting stuck.
I have issues with how the story ended up, but ultimately that's the choice of the storyteller, but it would have been cool for my dialog options to have made a difference in the story, but that again is probably part of the narrative too. I respect it, but wish it were different.
really cool universe, I hope the authors dive further into it one day
Beautifully written. This game changed me :)
Occult AF
Annoyingly pretentious, but it delivers so many little ideas and leaves you to connect them together in a delightful presentation.
yeah. a dream.
今年最喜欢的剧情向游戏
This game is definitely an experience, even though it took until the end of the interlude between Acts II and III for me to really start to vibe with it.
In the end I think I maybe picked up a third of what it was laying down. It's packed with thematic, structural, and narrative interconnections that I don't think any human being can be expected to fully grasp in one play through.
I liked it.
I hated this game. I don't know why it's the darling of every "video game sophisticate", but it's terrible. You don't DO anything. All you do is read text. There's no puzzle solving, there's no getting stronger, and the exploration is dull. It's all just one long long cutscene that goes on forever. You don't even make choices that matter to the outcome. The story doesn't even make sense. Eraserhead was more comprehensible than this.
Strange, almost bizarre road trip with poetic scripts. It's a bit hesitant to recommend other people to play KRZ(cuz I failed understanding the overall plot), but this is still a memorable adventure. A tragedy with a slight hint of consolation.
An experience.
may be a bit too slow, but overall brilliant
Very good game, just make sure you know how to read
Structured like a play more than a game but uses the interactive nature specific to video games to immerse you in its world.
There’s a sort of friction between the player and the game at times. One portion of the game sees Conway injuring his leg and you’re forced to limp around for some time. This can really try your patience or it can get you to empathize with Conway who must keep working despite this disability. Character’s can’t afford to stop moving because debt can creep up quickly and eat them down to just their glowing bones.
This is a point and click adventure game that doesn’t exactly have puzzles really, rather it has mysteries. Mysteries with multiple answers that contradict but also coincide with one another. The text can suggest that a character is alive in one moment and dead in another. In moments like this, I believe both of these things can be true. The game’s text can become so abstract that fact and fiction within the game world are blended together in this poetic haze. “Solutions” to these mysteries are really up to player interpretation for the most part, as the text can support many different interpretations.
I couldn’t really “solve” everything but I think the game encourages being okay with not understanding it all. Even the characters who inhabit this world wander around asking questions sort of like they too experience the world through something similar to the abstract poetry that you read through the game. Much of the game itself is just asking questions and there is a sense of purpose in just doing that regardless of what answers you may or may not find.
There was this devastating and almost hopeless feeling you get watching the cast of characters become ravaged by debt, injury, regret, etc. and seeing the societal structure of America seem so hostile to them. There’s no villain so the source of all this tragedy has no face to it. You do have the Consolidated Power Company meant to be a representation Capitalism but like Capitalism it’s so massive, all encompassing, and faceless. You don’t really even actually see this power company or even know what they do exactly. How can you fight and overcome something like this? This fatalist atmosphere is something I’ve experienced in other similar games I’ve enjoyed like Norco, Citizen Sleeper, and Disco Elysium. Like those games, Kentucky Route Zero does offer moments of hope. KR0 takes place during a very late stage of capitalism that sees most institutions crumbling which offers room for something new to take its place. Something seen toward the end of the game with the independent community. It’s all a bit bittersweet though since it’s not permanent but it’s nice to see that an effort was made proving it can be possible in time.
Even now i'd struggle to tell you what kentucky route zero was about. Playing it felt like a dream, trying to interpret it feels obtuse. But it will never leave my mind, despite that.
Thinking about other games makes me assume the perspective of an amateur critic, of someone with a view from above of the goings-on in a game. But thinking about my time in the zero, thinking about the people i met, the stories i heard, the bizarre histories i read, is much like my own memories of experiences that have touched me. The shape is vague, the words are half-remembered and interrupted, but it's all intensely familiar nonetheless.
Replaying it isn't the same as re-living it, but an act of memory, too-- some of the words changed, some of the blank spaces filled in by how you've changed as a person since the first time. I'll never get back my first time meeting conway, or the moment i assigned the voices in my mind to Junebug and Johnny. But the feeling of it will stay. And maybe, sometime later, when watching a play or reading a novel, i'll get an inkling of familiarity, some half remembered words from a poem no-one wrote, a memory of a lost friend who never really was, some blotches of brown and cream and grey on a screen in a dark bedroom, the word naw, read in a gruff voice i'm not quite sure how i came to. And maybe i'll notice the feeling is still there.
Artistically speaking, this is one of the most impactful games I've ever experienced.
It's essentially a visual novel delivered as a point-and-click adventure game where you follow a ragtag group of strangers as they explore an incredibly mundane and down-to-Earth presentation of the working class, presented with surreal and unsettling supernatural themes and imagery. Every scene in this game has this otherworldly, trance-like atmosphere with a dreamlike soundscape and mind-boggling visuals. But the people in a scene talk about their pasts, their futures, their regrets, their aspirations. Kentucky Route Zero shows you something like a place with impossible geometry and physics, with workers doing their Monday to Friday jobs in places people really shouldn't be, on paths that most people would never tread, with mission statements that make no logical sense, and then it tells you the reason it all exists is because the company lost its profits and workforce, and this is just happens to be all they've got left.
The presentation feels very similar to that of a play. You're shown the bare essentials of a world, with the concept and feeling being more important than the actual reality of a place. Beyond the props set for the actors, the horizon feels like a backdrop with lights coloring it for effect more than an actual sky. Elements of the scene shift in and out of existence as needed and are rarely ever static. The camera is fixed and can't follow you, so the world itself shifts and distorts to fit int your limited perspective. But the actors don't really acknowledge any of this. Why would they? They're the characters in this world. It is what it is. So within this bizarre theaterscape, the strangers get together and talk about their failing businesses, or the people they miss, or a bittersweet memory they hold tightly, how they manage to keep on going, all as if they're old friends. The soundscape lulls you into peace of mind. The surreal setpieces fade into the background. You're left with the hopeful and tragic group of strangers, grounded in their reality.
It comes together so beautifully. Familiar and unfamiliar. Surreal and mundane, Unsettling and meditative. Kentucky Route Zero is magical and unforgettable.
It's a lonely world filled with good company.
From the very first moment, this game pulls you into a dreamlike state, where reality blurs into surrealism, and every corner of the game’s world whispers secrets of a time long past.
The music doesn’t just accompany the game; it becomes a part of the experience. Lonely guitar strumming in the distance, of wind chimes tinkling in a forgotten town, of memories that refuse to fade away.
It’s a game that captures the essence of those moments when you feel both utterly alone and deeply connected to something greater than yourself—something timeless and eternal.
In the end, Kentucky Route Zero isn’t about reaching a destination; it’s about the journey itself. It’s about the people you meet, the stories you uncover, and the emotions that linger long after the screen has faded to black. It’s a game that stays with you, like an old song that you can’t quite remember the lyrics to, but whose melody haunts you nonetheless.
Dear white millennial normies:
STOP TRYING TO MAKE VIDEO GAMES! GO POLLUTE THE WORLD WITH YOUR HYPER-URBAN TENDENCIES SOMEWHERE ELSE!
Fuck this "game." Literally fell asleep while I was playing it. One point forced me to direct the camera for a theater play. And I had to watch every moment of it. There's better stories in books. Steam is for GAMES, not pretentious, implied poignance hispter garbage.
This is a game as meditating is a sport.
Art must not be something in specific when its real art, something made with the heart, the technical know how and perfectly, deliciously written.
Something to savor and enjoy , at a very slow pace.
Some thematic transitions just blew me away, made me think, and laugh and was entertained , also the android musical number just keeps on giving, many many years after release....
Not for everyone, but if it is for you, no way you wont appreciate what they went for , and wonderfully succeeded , even through serendipitous ways
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Cardboard Computer |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 81 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 83% положительных (2261) |