

Naturally, the fifth act ends with something that feels like a beginning: a hazy orange sunrise, shimmering across a waterlogged town the morning after a terrible storm. Back in 2013, the first chapter began with a scene that felt very much like an epilogue: an aging man named Conway setting out at sunset to make his last delivery for a doomed antique store. This is a game that loves circles, cycles, places where binaries collapse: real and unreal, absence and presence, inside and outside. The menu takes the shape of a circle, each act arranged around it like numbers on a clock face.

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It’s finally here, part of a new collected edition from Annapurna Interactive for PC and console. Over the past seven years, the three-person indie studio Cardboard Computer has released four episodic “acts” of its critically acclaimed game, along with four playable “interludes.” Fans have eagerly awaited the fifth and final chapter, the one where maybe, just maybe, you will arrive at your destination. Kentucky Route Zero has won “Game of the Year” awards multiple times, was dubbed the “best musical of 2014,” and has been called “the most important game of the decade”-and all this before it was finished.
