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Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Over a decade after playing Act 1, I finally finished Act 5 today. Playing KRZ today reminds me of why I felt so excited about games as a medium in the 2010s, where people were creating new and inventive ways to approach interactive entertainment. It also feels so out of step…”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs played“8/10 – Took a wrong turn and ended up on a haunted highway with debt, ghosts, and a TV repair wizard. Vibes? Immaculate. Logic? Optional. I came for a delivery, stayed for existential dread and robot jams. Somehow relaxing, somehow devastating. I’m not okay. I loved it. 🛣️👻📺…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“I gave Kentucky Route Zero more than a fair share of chances (giving up in mid-Act IV), however no effort in the world will change the fact that this game simply bears no substance. Quite literally, in the philosophical sense. The game's essence is lack thereof, the player is…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:58 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch Unity vulnerability
This patches a security issue in the game engine (Unity) on Windows. More information here: https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01
Mysterious fixes for mysterious bugs
- Fix mysteriously relocating save data on macOS. - Fix mysteriously invisible text. - Fix mysteriously unlit overworld map locations. Mac users: if your save data is currently missing, please check t
You're not dreaming: Kentucky Route Zero now has an "anti-aliasing" option!
We've just published an update to KRZ including the following: - Advanced line rendering. Thin lines are now legible on arbitrarily high-resolution displays. It's future-proof! (We should be so lucky.
Fixes for Windows 7 and 8
This patch fixes an issue on Windows 7 and 8 that could cause a crash, black screen, or a missing cursor. Stay strong, paleo-computers! Your refusal to upgrade in the face of planned obsolescence is a
Patch for Chinese text issues on Windows
This patch works around text rendering problems in both Chinese languages, including some characters disappearing and some appearing garbled, which have come up on some Windows computers. We are still
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · Atmospheric · Indie · Point & Click · Surreal · Story Rich · Episodic · Great Soundtrack · Narrative · Mystery · Beautiful · Exploration (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Captions available · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 24 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://kentuckyroutezero.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: 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