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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 GOTY 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 of the Year awards.

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 Year
Austin ChronicleUnited States2013
SlateUnited States2020

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Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.