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A screenshot from the trailer for Kentucky Route Zero act Five, with the shadows of horses near a dilapidated barn as rain hammers them from above

Grief and Grace Along Route Zero

By Perry Gottschalk • January 19th, 2024

The Zero is the community left in its wake. The Zero is for the misplaced, for the survivors.

Insert Coin
Screenshot from the game Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, featuring the "Meateor", a meteor that looks like a meatball streaking through the sky, with the text "New opportunities. Organs for everyone." at the bottom

Heart, Kidney, Pancreas, Shard

By Madison Butler • October 13th, 2022

Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator creates tension between the inherent violence of its premise and the player’s enjoyment of the gameplay, offering an engaging critique of capitalism.

Friction Burns
A house with a tin roof built on top of horizontal oil drums sits in a warehouse that is also a museum, a single light illuminating an old man asking questions of the residents on the porch

Finding The On-Ramp To Route Zero

By Ruth Cassidy • September 26th, 2022

Kentucky Route Zero carries its own ghosts of its critical legacy. How do I get past that?

Past Presence
A moody shot of a thatch-roofed tiki bar called The Rum Colony from the videogame Kentucky Route Zero.

Cheap Machines

By Emily Price • May 31st, 2022

Using speculative genres, games propose a horror that lies within debt and the meaningless work meant to assuage it: that rather than being a neat system with a clear path to success, it is instead an unresolvable problem.

Traces

Intermission: Too Late to Love you

By Diego Nicolás Argüello • July 7th, 2021

Welcome Diego back with his haunting look at his own personal Museum of Dwellings.

The Best Games of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 31st, 2020

This year has put on one hell of a spectacular shit show. But at the same time, games have proven to be the one salve we need to tide us over through 2020.

liberals in new york won’t stop texting me about amy mcgrath

By Amanda Hudgins • October 29th, 2020

Next time, if you want to get involved in an election in my state, it would help if you learned something about it first.

four men playing musical instruments in silhouette.

Look For Me Under Your Bootsoles

By Jeremy Signor • February 26th, 2020

We all have things that are haunting us. What matters is how we move forward together.

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Southern Play – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 95

By Davis Cox • September 22nd, 2017

The American South is a complicated place. The games that come out of the South are no different.

Preludes to Kentucky Route Zero

By Odile Strik • March 24th, 2015

Oscar Strik examines the earlier games of Cardboard Computer and how they anticipate Kentucky Route Zero.

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