There are a lot of games I love. Games I play over and over again, or love to talk about. Ones that inspire me and move me and entertain me.

Few haunt me though, few follow me around and show themselves in quiet corners and just off the interstate and in sunsets and shadows and DMV lines and beach parties like Kentucky Route Zero.

To get the obvious out of the way, no, there are no tests of reflexes, no stats to track, no enemies to speak of, no puzzles to solve. I love all of those things, but they are not here and they are not missed.

Instead you have a gorgeous twilight world, people and places just on the other side of fantastic, cyborgs and thunderbirds and skeletons and bureaucrats and truck drivers and thereminists. The world of KZO is both utterly original and also a saturated and shadowy reflection of our own, utterly familiar and utterly alien.

My best recommendation is just to trust your instincts; if you're intrigued by what I and others have said here and the pictures above, and you aren't turned off by the absence of more traditional "game" elements, you are in for a gorgeous, meditative, and unique experience.