Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 19 minutes ago
This is a love letter to Kentucky Route Zero.
Kentucky Route Zero is a game you can't win. It tells you it's a tragedy.
0:00 - The most important moment of the game
0:14 - Spoiler warning
0:27 - What is Kentucky Route Zero
1:23 - Kentucky Route Zero on capitalism
4:14 - 1st Technique - Magical Realism
12:06 - 2nd Technique - Choice
22:46 - 3rd Technique - Community
28:25 - The game's final act
Kentucky Route Zero is one of the best games I played this year, and this video is why.
Actually, it is a game, but it's really a point and click game, adventure game, visual novel combo. There's a LOT of reading, but it's also one of my favorite Nintendo Switch games of 2020. Magical realism, anti-capitalism, and some serious David Lynch vibes make this one of the best games of 2020 for me.
A game ostensibly based in rural Kentucky, you play Conway, on a search for 5 Dogwood Drive. This sends you on a route down the Zero, a mysterious highway in the Mammoth Caves of Kentucky. The game tells you it's a tragedy and that your strategies are useless. It's not the kind of game you win. You can't min-max your way to a good ending.
This is my Kentucky Route Zero review. I played the Nintendo Switch version, so all the of the Kentucky Route Zero gameplay you're seeing is from the TV Edition.
Included in this video is my cover of a hymn that is included on the Kentucky Route Zero soundtrack. If you'd like to download that yourself, watch all the way to the end for instructions.
MY LINKS
https://MattHorton.live
Thanks to the Kentucky Route Zero unofficial Discord for the assistance.
Love Letter icon by Vectors Market and Noun Project.
#kentuckyroutezero #review #videoessay
This is a love letter to Kentucky Route Zero.
Kentucky Route Zero is a game you can't win. It tells you it's a tragedy.
0:00 - The most important moment of the game
0:14 - Spoiler warning
0:27 - What is Kentucky Route Zero
1:23 - Kentucky Route Zero on capitalism
4:14 - 1st Technique - Magical Realism
12:06 - 2nd Technique - Choice
22:46 - 3rd Technique - Community
28:25 - The game's final act
Kentucky Route Zero is one of the best games I played this year, and this video is why.
Actually, it is a game, but it's really a point and click game, adventure game, visual novel combo. There's a LOT of reading, but it's also one of my favorite Nintendo Switch games of 2020. Magical realism, anti-capitalism, and some serious David Lynch vibes make this one of the best games of 2020 for me.
A game ostensibly based in rural Kentucky, you play Conway, on a search for 5 Dogwood Drive. This sends you on a route down the Zero, a mysterious highway in the Mammoth Caves of Kentucky. The game tells you it's a tragedy and that your strategies are useless. It's not the kind of game you win. You can't min-max your way to a good ending.
This is my Kentucky Route Zero review. I played the Nintendo Switch version, so all the of the Kentucky Route Zero gameplay you're seeing is from the TV Edition.
Included in this video is my cover of a hymn that is included on the Kentucky Route Zero soundtrack. If you'd like to download that yourself, watch all the way to the end for instructions.
MY LINKS
https://MattHorton.live
Thanks to the Kentucky Route Zero unofficial Discord for the assistance.
Love Letter icon by Vectors Market and Noun Project.
#kentuckyroutezero #review #videoessay
