Cardboard Computer is a indie game studio consisting of about three people and currently responsible for the game Kentucky Route Zero,a narrative-driven point and click game about a bunch of strangers who end up traveling together on a magical (?) underground highway in rural Kentucky. The first of five acts was released in 2013 and the rest have been released intermittently; currently four acts are out (the amount of time between acts 3 and 4 was about two years).
Kentucky Route Zero has a relatively linear storyline in that the choices the player makes don’t have much effect on the overarching storyline (timeline wise it will occasionally jump into the distant past or future, often casually switching character POV in the process). Instead, the player’s choices end up defining or detailing the character’s personalities, which have no overall effect on the ‘plot’ but can certainly change the feel of the game for the player. The game itself is heavily influenced by Southern Gothic tropes, Americana folklore/ghost stories and is filled with literary references.