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dropped seemingly out of nowhere last year: a heady, smart, and dense puzzle-heavy adventure from the last people on the planet you’d expect. Croteam, the developers of the shooter series, absolutely nailed their first foray into this new territory. was challenging, thought-provoking, amusing, and rewarding in spades. And although it took a hefty helping of […]

was that most frustrating kind of game, the kind that you are forced to damn with faint praise. It was “interesting.” Not good, not even awful. It had a distinctive premise – which it failed to live up to. It “had its moments.” There was great promise for a stealth-adventure game hybrid starring the homicidal […]

It may feel like a million years ago that first ambled out of the ether, though it was really only 2013 when Act I debuted. But time moves slowly in the Zero and for the sleepy rural American South it calls home. The real world has seen dramatic changes in the interim, but the only […]

Legend speaks of an ancient time when Kentucky Route Zero Act: III was released, and prophecy foretells of a distant future in which the game will be complete in its full five-part glory. Perhaps with rapid advances in modern medicine, I will live long enough to see that fateful day. Yes, is taking its sweet, […]

I have to wonder what it will be like to play all of back to back once all five planned acts have been released. Acts I and II dropped five months apart, and it has been a full year since Act II’s release. Act III is now upon us, and in the interim I have […]

The first act of was really something: a surreal, highly literate piece of poetry by way of point-and-click adventure. It drew inspiration from sources as disparate as Southern Gothic literature and , and succeeded at creating a mysterious and intriguing world that seemed to lay under the surface of a very familiar slice of Americana. […]