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Kentucky Route Zero: lost in a surreal, terrifying American South

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Kentucky Route Zero: Part I, developed by Cardboard Computer for PC, Mac and Linux, is an interactive screenplay, an illustrated series of scenes occasionally stirred by unexpectedly moving things. It’s a point-and-click adventure game, but with creepy explorations of light and sound and Southern Gothic themes, and without any hidden on-screen objects to find.

There are lots of hidden things tucked away in Route Zero‘s highways and far-flung dirt roads, though. Miniature text adventures are tucked away in secret places, and scenes that seem stripped from a Faulkner novel unfold in remote areas with or without your involvement.
via Wired

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