Kathy Rain on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.

Kathy Rain is a point & click, adventure and pixel graphics game developed by Clifftop Games and published by Raw Fury.
Released on May 05th 2016 is available on Windows and MacOS in 6 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain and Polish.

It has received 3,736 reviews of which 3,438 were positive and 298 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Kathy Rain into these genres:

Point & Click Adventure Pixel Graphics Female Protagonist Mystery Detective Indie Singleplayer Story Rich Puzzle Psychological Horror Noir Retro Hand-drawn Supernatural Third Person RPG Atmospheric Choices Matter Exploration

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP
Processor: 300 MHz Processor
Memory: 128 MB RAM
Graphics: 320 x 240 32 bit
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 1 GB available space
Additional Notes: Video: DirectX & Directdraw Supported

MacOS

OS: Snow Leopard
Processor: Intel processor
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX5600 ATI Radeon 4850, Radeon 4870
Storage: 1 GB available space
Additional Notes: Apple M1 chipsets are not supported

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2024

Really liked it. Voice acting, dialogue, and story was great. Sometimes the detective combinations were not intuitive, given past characterization of Kathy though.

Nov. 2024

i thought this was a game with lots of items combining and banging your head against the wall until something finally works but its really chill and straight forward

July 2024

Fun puzzles here and there, but the story is honestly what kept me playing for like the 3-4 hours it took me to finish it. Missed a few achievements, and honestly might replay for them just because this was such a compelling narrative. I'm left with so many questions about the lore, too!! Really hoping they come out with a sequel!

May 2024

Kathy Rain has a lot going for it. The story starts off pretty interesting and only gets more so. The music is well done. The puzzles are largely great. There are a few downsides though. While the story starts of well by the end it does leave several questions open and I found didn’t do a very good job explaining just what was going on. Several interesting side plots are also brought up but not resolved. I also didn’t like how the majority of responses from Kathy are just hostile and impolite. It didn’t make me like the character much. I will single out the padlock puzzle, the IT puzzle, and the briefcase puzzle as my favourites. I didn’t like the poem puzzle much. Overall I liked that most of the puzzles made sense. I wasn’t a huge fan of the graphics but then again I’m not much of a fan of pixel graphics. There is very little detail on much of the game. I get that it’s meant to be a throw back to the old days but some pixel games do manage to make things look a little better than this although most are on par. The voice acting was very well done. I played Kathy Rain on Linux using Steam’s Proton. It never crashed during game play but had some other issues. The game sometimes wouldn’t launch. It wouldn’t give me an error message but just would never open. I found I had to validate the files, of which usually one was bad and had to be downloaded, and then restart Steam. The game would also crash if I set the Nearest Neighbour Filter setting to anything over 6x. Once the game could get going I had zero issues during game play. There is just the Nearest Neighbour Filter for graphical options. You can’t turn the subtitles off. You can manually save any time except for when making a dialogue choice and I didn’t notice any limit for how many save slots there are. The game had a frame rate cap of 40 FPS which is kind of strange and low. It managed to stay at a constant 40 FPS even on my Intel UHD 770 onboard GPU so at least performance was good. I’m not sure if my technical issues were related to Proton or if they would have happened on Windows as well. Game Engine: Adventure Game Studio Graphics API: DXVK Game Version Played: 1.0.4 Disk Space Used: 537 MB Nearest Neighbour Filter: 6x CPU Usage: 4-12 % System RAM Usage: 4.3-5.3 GB Frame Rate: 40 FPS Constant Overall I would recommend Kathy Rain to those who like point and click games and even to those that don’t. As unfulfilling as the story was it was a great ride along the way. The puzzles were also largely well done and despite some technical issues the game can be run on damn near any system well. The audio was great overall and the graphics were fine for what they were but don’t hinder the enjoyment of the game. I paid $3.39 CAD for Kathy Rain and would say it is easily worth that price and is also worth it’s current asking price of $12.99 CAD. That being said I would recommend going for the new directors cut as you get native Linux support and apparently they have put work into fleshing out the ending among other things. I finished the story in seven hours and fourteen minutes. My Score: 8/10 My System: Intel i5-12600K | 32GB DDR4-3200 CL16 | Intel UHD 770 | Mesa 23.0.4 | Western Digital Black SN850X 2TB | Trisquel 11.0.1 | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 6.8.9-gnu | Trisquel 11.0.1| Proton 9.0-1

April 2024

Point and click game like the old school ones taking you to various locations and meeting various characters to work out clues and puzzles to various mysteries. The game has the old vibe graphics monkey island style although a directors cut has been released but not sure how much has changed. Fully voiced and a great story this game is a bargain at a low price

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9.99€

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Developer

Clifftop Games

Publisher

Raw Fury

Release 05 May 2016

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