Kentucky Route Zero is like a journey through all the Midwestern parts of my mind. I'm originally hail from Michigan, and though I haven't been back in some time this game felt all too familiar. I've spent tons of time driving through that part of the country, through Southern Ohio and through Kentucky, and all the strange characters and people you meet in Kentucky Route Zero strangely felt like... home. The sad old man at the gas station, the homely people along the riverboat's path, and the quirky people at the late night TV station, they all just feel... like people you've met. While I can't even begin to describe a lot of the themes of KRZ because quite frankly, I don't understand all of them, the solitude and loneliness enveloped in this game was strangely cathartic to experience. I don't know if you could give it a genre outside of "point-and-click surrealism," which is fine because that's simply what it is.

You embark on a journey to deliver for the antique shop your character works for and quickly find yourself off all semblance of a beaten path. While the story is great, the visuals even greater, one thing that stood out to me was the soundtrack which features some great ambient works but also a few harrowing bluegrass and synth based vocal songs that will remain engrained in my brain for quite some time.