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The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut is a point & click, female protagonist and detective game
developed by Clifftop Games
and published by Raw Fury.
Released on October 26th 2021 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 921 reviews of which 867 were positive and 54 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. ๐
The game is currently priced at 14.99โฌ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 or higher
- Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: Version 9.0
- Additional Notes: Great detective skills are a bonus.
MacOS
- OS: Supports Intel x86 hardware
- Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Apple M1 chipsets are not supported
Linux
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I played the original game years ago, and playing this again was like a new experience. Kathy Rain Director's cut added new scenes and extra lines to the story; it is as good as the original but elevated. The story starts off in 1995, with a young woman named Katherine who studies journalism and shares a dorm room with her roommate Eileen. One morning, she was informed about her deceased grandfather, Joseph Rain, who had mysteriously died, and she decided to investigate what actually happened to him after she had to move away with her mother. The investigation lasts for 5 days, each day Kathy learns things about her grandfather's past and the mysterious deaths and disappearances that have been going on in the area. Along with these, you'll learn about her past and secrets. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3570142648 The puzzles are really interesting, and the new ones are well-made. I still love the voice acting; they all did a great job. I can't express how much I enjoy pixel art, the character portraits, and the scenery; all of it is so beautifully drawn. Between each scene, you'll get a fast-travelling map. A new option has been added, allowing you to change the skin of Kathy's motorcycle. You'll earn achievements for these, which can be unlocked by completing specific tasks. There is a manual save option in case you want to return and unlock any missed achievements. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3570142620 The soundtracks are good, fitting the atmosphere nicely. I liked all the characters; none of them was annoying or unlikable. My only issue was that there is no hinting system; if you get stuck, you will have to travel from place to place to find out what to do next. When using the items, you must drag and drop them onto people or the target you intend to use them on. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3570142633 Pros: +Interesting story. +Good soundtracks. +Very well-done voice-over. +Good animation and character design. +Fast travel map. +Unlimited save files. +Steam achievements. Cons: -No hinting system. Although the theme of the game could be quite dark for some people, as it mentions suicide and abortion, I still think the game is good and worth playing. So excited to play the second game of Kathy Rain, which is already out. Highly recommended. Other Reviews: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198071375554/recommended/370910?snr=1_5_9__402]Kathy Rain Review [url=https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198071375554/recommended/1466390/]Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer Review [url=https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198071375554/recommended/631570?snr=1_5_9__402]Whispers of a Machine Review ๐น๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ค๐ ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/32399565/]๐น๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐ถ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/] Follow IndieGems for more reviews like this one.
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Brilliant old school Point&Click Adventure! I really like the protagonist and the other characters, the story and gameplay, voice-acting, intro music - and the graphics are nice for that pixel style too. Seriously can't think of anything to complain about! It's easy to miss achievements (I tried every stupid thing I could think of after reading the achievement descriptions as a pointer and still missed 2) but you can't get stuck - if you fail badly the scene will just reload and let you try again and a day just won't end if you haven't done/asked a necessary thing yet. So just jump in, go places and do stuff, nothing to lose! The story was creepier than I thought (honestly perfect for spooky october, good thing I only got around to finishing it now!) and a biiiit absurd like otherwordly mysteries tend to be but that's okay, it was well fitted together and well acted out, really loved this game! A clear recommendation!
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Kathy Rain quite literally says "I'm not like other girls" un-ironically in this game. And that tells you most of what you need to know about her character, who whole identity is being alternative, a baddie, who smokes cigs, rides a motorbike, has a messy room and listens to heavy metal. lol And yet I found myself enjoying the game in spite of all that. Its decent point and click with a little supernatural horror to add a bit off spice, not tremendously difficult, in fact quite easy, but with a solid enough story and atmosphere that you'll be glad you experienced it. I do want to address a negative review I read since comments are turned off, about how Kathy Rain is a story about pro life. I would suggest this person greatly misinterpreted the media, and I think its not about whether an abortion is right or wrong and more that this is something the character struggled with, its made clear, at least in my mind, that this character feels personal guilt for a lot of things, and not necessarily providing a judgement that she made the right or wrong choice. I did want to clarify that, because I am fully pro choice and if I hadn't had already purchased the game, a review like that would have turned me away from buying it. In no way did I perceive the game as pushing some kind of agenda in regards to that, and more I think it was trying to create a creepy psychological atmosphere, with slight depth to some of its characters.
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i literally finished this game in one day. i just started playing and could not stop. i absolutely love point and click detective games and this game might be one of my favourites in that category now. i liked the atmosphere and the main character (kathy)! the puzzles were also fun to do. i probably will play kathy rain 2 soon :)
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8/10 After playing through the Nancy Drew games I need more female detective games and Kathy Rain delivered. A bit crass, a bit angsty, Kathy Rain takes on the case to solve multiple mysteries all wrapped up in one story. This game has great art, good voice acting and some solid puzzle solving making it worth checking out.
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Kathy Rain: Director's Cut is currently priced at 14.99โฌ on Steam.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99โฌ on Steam.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut received 867 positive votes out of a total of 921 achieving a rating of 8.85.
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Kathy Rain: Director's Cut was developed by Clifftop Games and published by Raw Fury.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut is a single-player game.
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Kathy Rain: Director's Cut does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut does not support Steam Remote Play.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Clifftop Games
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Raw Fury
Release
26 Oct 2021
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