Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Skip · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$24.99Skip
On its price record
$14.75Fair
- Length
- 8.9h 13.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.81/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 4,472 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.75 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $9.99 (60% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Directx 9.0c compatible video card, 2.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 71 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Almost Gone ($9.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Twelve Minutes ($7.49, scores 33).
More about Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
2 of the 684 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 446 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
At 8.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
31% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
It's kinda long, kinda like a short poem, I think. One of those short poems that really sums it all up. Not an intellectual enough to see all the intricacies of themes and ideas of the game, but still could appreciate the bleak yet cozy story, the great mixture of visual, audio and text elements, the wonderful songs and sounds. The main compliment would probably be that the game creates one of those worlds you want...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
My favorite game of all time. Transformative work that so many of your favorite games were inspired by.
I have to say I finished this out of obligation more than anything. There are elements here that really really shine. The first chapter with it's road network exploration of "Americana Gothic" style environments & narration - places lost to time, or spaces loosing their connection with reality - it pushes the "magical realist", almost liminal horror style I expected. The community radio section is another peak for...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/231200/kentucky-route-zero-pc-editionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 3, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.