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Life & fun · July 19, 2016

Kentucky Route Zero

A magical realist adventure game

Kentucky Route Zero launched on July 19, 2016 with 73 votes, #699 of 3,671 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

What it does

Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky.

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…from cardboardcomputer.itch.io

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