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2013

Kentucky Route Zero: 2 Game of the Year awards

No: Kentucky Route Zero collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2013 (2 counting every season) and finished No. 19; the season went to The Last of Us with 257. Spike Video Game Awards named Grand Theft Auto V its Game of the Year.

Kentucky Route Zero is a 2013–2020 point-and-click adventure interactive fiction game developed by Cardboard Computer and published by Annapurna Interactive. The game follows the narrative of a truck driver named Conway and the strange people he meets as he tries to cross the mysterious Route Zero in Kentucky to make a final delivery for the antiques company he works for.

Description via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kentucky Route Zero finished #19 in the 2013 race, with 2 awards from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

  • 2Total awards
  • 2Media outlets
  • 0Readers' choice
  • 1Countries

Also in the 2013 season: The Last of Us (257), Grand Theft Auto V (165), BioShock Infinite (47), Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (1), Final Fantasy XIV (1), Kerbal Space Program (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Kentucky Route Zero win?

Kentucky Route Zero won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2013 season — 0.2% of every award tracked that season. Counting every season it holds 2: 1 more was filed under another year. 2 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Kentucky Route Zero win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 19 in 2013, behind The Last of Us, which collected 257.

Game facts

  • Single-playerYes
  • Co-opNo
  • Split screenNo
  • MultiplayerNo
  • Online multiplayerNo
  • Released7 January 2013
  • DeveloperCardboard Computer
  • PublisherCardboard Computer, Annapurna Interactive, Netflix
  • point-and-click adventure
  • Southern Gothic
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux
  • macOS
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Xbox One
  • PlayStation 4
  • Android (operating system)
  • IOS
  • Xbox Series X and Series S
  • PlayStation 5

Where the awards came from

CountryAwards
United States2

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

OutletCountry YearSource
Austin ChronicleUnited States2013Internet Archive
SlateUnited States2020Internet Archive

← Full 2013 results

Updated 13 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.