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Many articles have been published about Kentucky Route Zero, and its developers have participated in multiple written interviews.

2012

• 'Kentucky Route Zero' is a bluegrass adventure with robots and cats by Andrew Webster. October 26, 2012.
  • https://www.theverge.com/2012/10/26/3558366/kentucky-route-zero-adventure-game-cardboard-computer

2013

• Interview: Kentucky Route Zero's Mountain Of Meanings by Nathan Grayson. January 22, 2013.
  • https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/22/interview-kentucky-route-zeros-mountain-of-meanings/

• Where the road takes you: investigating Kentucky Route Zero by Dan Whitehead. January 28, 2013.
  • https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-01-28-where-the-road-takes-you-investigating-kentucky-route-zero

• Road to the IGF: Cardboard Computer's Kentucky Route Zero by Mike Rose. January 29, 2013.
  • https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/185603/Road_to_the_IGF_Cardboard_Computers_Kentucky_Route_Zero.php

• From Kickstarter to burgeoning cult hit, we explore the origins of Kentucky Route Zero by Adam Rosenber. February 5, 2013.
  • https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/exploring-the-magical-reality-of-cardboard-computers-kentucky-route-zero/

• On Kentucky Route Zero, Act 1 by Tara Ogaick. March 11, 2013.
  • https://thiscageisworms.com/2013/03/11/on-kentucky-route-zero-act-1/

• Breathe In The Road: Cardboard Computer and Kentucky Route Zero by Charlie Hall. April 11, 2013.
  • https://www.polygon.com/features/2013/4/11/4158338/breathe-in-the-road-kentucky-route-zero

• Kentucky Fried Zero parts 1, 2, and 3, by Magnus Hildebrandt (English translations by Dennis Kogel and Josefiene Pertosa).
  • https://superlevel.de/spiele/kentucky-fried-zero-english-edition/ April 21, 2013.
  • https://superlevel.de/spiele/kentucky-fried-zero-act-2-english-edition/ July 24, 2013.
  • https://superlevel.de/spiele/kentucky-fried-zero-act-3-english-edition/ February 27, 2015.

• 'Taking genre conventions as your starting point is kinda boring' by Kris Ligman. May 29, 2013.
  • https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/193239/Taking_genre_conventions_as_your_starting_point_is_kinda_boring.php

• The Making Of: Kentucky Route Zero by Edge staff. October 10, 2013.
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20140222023509/http://www.edge-online.com:80/features/the-making-of-kentucky-route-zero/

• Making 'Kentucky Route Zero,' a Magical Realist Adventure in Five Acts by Michael Rougeau. December 12, 2013.
  • http://animalnewyork.com/2013/game-plan-making-kentucky-route-zero-magical-realist-adventure-five-acts/

• The Indifference of 'Kentucky Route Zero' to the Platonic Ideal of Video Games by Eric Swain. December 17, 2013.
  • https://www.popmatters.com/177535-kentucky-route-zero-indifference-to-the-platonic-ideal-of-video-game-2495700024.html

2014

• Interview: Cardboard Computer by Benjamin Filitz. February 20, 2014.
  • https://superlevel.de/spiele/interview-cardboard-computer/

• "Try to Perceive Life": An Interview with Kentucky Route Zero Developers Jake Elliot and Tamas Kemenczy by Drew Dixon. May 2, 2014.
  • http://gamechurch.com/try-to-perceive-life-an-interview-with-kentucky-route-zero-developers-jake-elliot-and-tamas-kemenczy/

• Wot I Think: Kentucky Route Zero – Act III by Adam Smith. May 7, 2014.
  • https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/05/07/wot-i-think-kentucky-route-zero-act-iii/

• The Kentucky Route Zero Guide To Film by Brandon Boyer. May 20, 2014.
  • http://venuspatrol.com/2014/05/venus-patrol-presents-kentucky-route-zero-guide-film/

• Kentucky Route Zero's Musical Centerpiece and the Power of Choice by Ansh Patel. July 14, 2014.
  • https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/07/kentucky-route-zeros-musical-centerpiece.html

2015

• The Poetics of Space by Cara Ellison. January 3, 2015.
  • https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-01-03-cara-ellison-on-the-poetics-of-space

• Pulling the Strings by Lindsey Joyce. February 7, 2015.
  • http://www.haywiremag.com/features/pulling-strings/

• A Psychogeography Of Games #1: Kentucky Route Zero by Hannah Nicklin. July 3, 2015.
  • https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/07/03/a-psychogeography-of-games-1-kentucky-route-zero/

• The Point N' Click meets Modernism — Frost, Joyce, and Conrad in Cardboard Computer’s Kentucky Route Zero by Hannah Nicklin. December 16, 2015.
  • https://medium.com/@disembodiedbird/the-point-n-click-meets-modernism-frost-joyce-and-conrad-in-cardboard-computer-s-kentucky-ea5ffb61c802

2016

• Where the hell is 'Kentucky Route Zero'? by Jessica Conditt. February 16, 2016.
  • https://www.engadget.com/2016/02/16/kentucky-route-zero-act-4-interview/

• Opened World: Art Imitates Art by Miguel Penabella. March 27, 2016.
  • http://www.haywiremag.com/columns/opened-world-art-imitates-art/

• Finding poetry in the caves beneath Kentucky by eli fessler. April 19, 2016.
  • https://elifessler.com/games/blog/posts/finding-poetry-caves-beneath-kentucky

• What Makes Kentucky Route Zero's Dialogue So Good? by Alex Wiltshire June 3, 2016.
  • https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/03/kentucky-route-zero-dialogue-analysis/p

• We Talked to Cardboard Computer About ‘Kentucky Route Zero’ and the Politics of Debt by Lewis Gordon. June 27, 2016.
  • https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gea93/kentucky-route-zero-and-the-politics-of-debt-an-interview-with-cardboard-computer-123-58477fecace19e023cedc910

• The Unsteady Steadying The Unsteady by Cara Ellison. August 11, 2016.
  • http://caraellison.co.uk/essay/the-unsteady-steadying-the-unsteady/

• A Melancholy Journey Through the Lost American Dream by Laura Hudson. August 16, 2016.
  • http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/08/kentucky_route_zero_reviewed_a_perfect_depiction_of_quiet_economic_desperation.html

• Kentucky Route Zero: How Ben Babbitt scored a Lynchian modern classic by Lewis Gordon. August 23, 2016.
  • http://www.factmag.com/2016/08/23/kentucky-route-zero-ben-babbitt/

• Kentucky Route Zero's android musicians are releasing a whole album by Reid McCarter. August 23, 2016.
  • https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/kentucky-route-zeros-junebug-set-release-tktk-album-androids/

• Play Kentucky Route Zero now, before it’s too late by Dan Solberg. September 30, 2016.
  • https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/play-kentucky-route-zero-now-late/

2017

• Kentucky Route Zero, Act IV: All but Done by Richard Herndon. January 22, 2017.
  • https://medium.com/the-cube/kentucky-route-zero-act-iv-all-but-done-664ecae2d896

• Welcome to The Zero: the making of Kentucky Route Zero's open road by Joe Donnelly. January 27, 2017.
  • https://www.pcgamer.com/welcome-to-the-zero-the-making-of-kentucky-route-zeros-open-road/

• Reexamining the American Road Trip in Kentucky Route Zero by Patrick Larose. September 2, 2017.
  • http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/reexamining-the-american-road-trip-in-kentucky-route-zero/

• The Forgetting Game by Sam Dibella. November 29, 2017.
  • http://www.heterotopiaszine.com/2017/11/29/forgetting-game-kentucky-route-zero/

• The Making of Kentucky Route Zero – Games™ Magazine, Issue 194. November 30, 2017.
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/kentuckyroutezero/comments/7tzhsf/games_magazine_issue_194_the_making_of_kentucky/

2018

• Video killed the video star: on "Un Pueblo De Nada" by Cardboard Computer by Robert Yang. February 2, 2018.
  • https://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2018/02/video-killed-video-star-on-un-pueblo-de.html

• The Dismantled Book of 'Kentucky Route Zero' by Preston Johnston. February 5, 2018.
  • https://epiloguegaming.com/the-dismantled-book-of-kentucky-route-zero/

• Opened World: Kentucky Route Zero Acts I, II, III, and IV by Miguel Penabella.
  • http://www.haywiremag.com/columns/opened-world-kentucky-route-zero-act-i/ March 7, 2018.
  • http://www.haywiremag.com/columns/opened-world-kentucky-route-zero-act-ii/ April 1, 2018.
  • http://www.haywiremag.com/columns/opened-world-kentucky-route-zero-act-iii/ May 10, 2018.
  • http://www.haywiremag.com/columns/opened-world-kentucky-route-zero-act-iv/ July 17, 2018.

• The Scenographic South by Miguel Penabella. April 26, 2018.
  • http://www.heterotopiaszine.com/004-2/

2019

• Player Two: An Interview with Ben Babbitt by Miguel Penabella. July 31, 2019.
  • https://invalidmemory.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/player-two-an-interview-with-ben-babbitt/
• Critical Compilation: Kentucky Route Zero by Nicholas O’Brien. September 26, 2019.
  • https://critical-distance.com/2019/09/26/kentucky-route-zero/
• Why Kentucky Route Zero is the most important game of the decade by Chris Plante. November 12, 2019.
  • https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/12/20960055/kentucky-route-zero-the-most-important-game-of-the-decade

2020

• Hard Times: Revisiting Acts I-IV of Kentucky Route Zero While Desperately Looking for Work by Carolyn Petit. January 25, 2020.
  • https://medium.com/@carolynpetit/hard-times-revisiting-acts-i-iv-of-kentucky-route-zero-while-desperately-looking-for-work-6991f2707516