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# Prepare for something new from Kentucky Route Zero soon
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/prepare-for-something-new-from-kentucky-route-zero-soon/
- Published: 2016-02-10T14:00:18.000Z
- Updated: 2016-02-10T14:25:51.000Z
- Description: We really like Kentucky Route Zero. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s the Ideal Kill Screen Game: aesthetically surefooted, poetic, funny, surreal, and melancholy. (The other pole of this is, like, last year’s Bloodborne, or something.) So when designers Cardboard Computer tease more Kentucky Ro
- Author: Astrid Budgor
- Tags: News, act iv, Cardboard Computer, kentucky route zero, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

We really like *Kentucky Route Zero*. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s the Ideal Kill Screen Game: aesthetically surefooted, poetic, funny, surreal, and melancholy. (The other pole of this is, like, last year’s *Bloodborne*,or something.) So when designers Cardboard Computer tease more *Kentucky Route Zero* in their inimitable, coy way, we jump all over it:

![krz](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/krz-e1455049145624.png)

That image is all Cardboard Computer [tweeted out](https://twitter.com/cardboardcompy/status/696479344722649088?ref=killscreen.com). Since their customary pre-episode interlude has already been released (2014’s delightful *[Here and There Along the Echo](http://kentuckyroutezero.com/here-and-there-along-the-echo/?ref=killscreen.com)*) I can only assume this is from *Act IV* proper. I’m sure I’ll wake up in three weeks or so and a elderly, neatly-suited man will knock at my door. He’ll deliver a bottle of ice-cold milk. A chicken will shuffle into my foyer as I speak to him. Taped to the bottom of the bottle is a USB drive containing *Kentucky Route Zero Act IV*.

There’s a quote from Martin Scorsese that Cardboard Computer seem to innately understand: “cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.” *Kentucky Route Zero* has been uniquely interested in frames, from a TV that shows the future in *Act I* to the transportive, celestial musical interlude in *Act III*. All we can see here is an apartment block, stretching beyond the frame in every direction, with a single figure standing on a balcony. It’s a prosaic image, but following the more industrial *Act III* (contrast with the earthier *Act I* and *II*) it suggests the scope will be widening even further on the story of Conway and his friends.

But there’s no use trying to divine where *Kentucky Route Zero* is headed. It’s the most mercurial, exciting, ambitious game going, and we hardly deserve it.