Kentucky Route Zero
Developer Cardboard Computer
Publisher Annapurna Interactive
Format PC (tested), PS4, Switch, Xbox One
Release Out now
The buzz and crackle of a vintage TV set greets us as we boot up the finished version of Cardboard Computer’s magical-realist adventure. This, for those who haven’t yet had the pleasure of Acts One through Four, is new: a direct result of Annapurna Interactive’s involvement in helping bring the episodic point-and-click to fruition. It’s also apropos. That we should witness a fresh start right at the end – and on a piece of technology that appears to be on its way out – is fully in keeping with a world that seems to occupy a liminal space between life and death. It’s a place where some journeys seem to be close to their terminus, while others are about to head in a new direction.
It starts with a delivery and concludes with a kind of deliverance, though any traditional notion of beginnings and endings seems fluid. The people we meet are not at the start of their
