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Kathy Rain
Kathy Rain	2016
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut	2021

Kathy Rain is a singleplayer scrolling and side view adventure game in the Kathy Rain series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS

GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Mac App Store
Microsoft Store
Steam		DRM-free when launched directly from executable.

A demo is available from GOG.com and Steam.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\acsetup.cfg^{[Note 2]}
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)	$HOME/Applications/Kathy Rain/KathyRain.app/Contents/Resources/acsetup.cfg
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/370910/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\agssave.*^{[Note 2]}
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)	$HOME/Applications/Kathy Rain/KathyRain.app/Contents/Resources/
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/370910/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

The saved games from the Demo version of Kathy Rain are not interchangeable with the saves of the full game.^[2]

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

$Graphics options accessed through <path-to-game>\winsetup.exe.$

Graphics options accessed through <path-to-game>\winsetup.exe.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Pixel-perfect 320x240. Scaling algorithm is nearest-neighbor. Set via `<path-to-game>\winsetup.exe`.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Set via `<path-to-game>\winsetup.exe` or see Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Capped at 40 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Windowed

Use this method to force windowed mode.

Game can be played in different sized windows.

Mouse cursor is not restricted to the game window and can move into the desktop.

Forcing windowed mode^[3]^[4]

Open acsetup.cfg with a text editor.
Change the line windowed=0 to windowed=1. This will launch the game in windowed mode.
Now change the line gfxfilter=max to gfxfilter=StdScaleX, where X is a multiplier of the original 320x240. Example: Setting gfxfilter=StdScale2 will launch the game in a 640x480 window. This will limit the size of the window so it won't be larger than your screen.
Save the file and close your text editor.
Run the game.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

In-game volume settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, Speech and Music volumes.
Surround sound
Subtitles		All dialogue throughout the game includes voice and text by default.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian				Fan translation by «Prometheus Project» for version 1.0.3 [GOG].
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
DirectDraw	5

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista	7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU)	300 MHz	1 GHz (32 or 64-bit)
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	320x240 32 bit DirectX 9.0 compatible	WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.9	10.10
Processor (CPU)	Intel processor
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	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	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

Notes

↑ Adventure Game Studio engine build: 3.3.0.1150^[1]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/370910/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (370910) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Verified by User:Mastan on 2022-06-26
↑ Saves from Demo can't be used in full game - GOG.com Forum - last accessed on 2017-12-16
↑ Verified by User:CHibizoid on 2017-12-12
↑ Windowed Mode - GOG.com Forum - last accessed on May 2023

[2] Adventure Game Studio engine build: 3.3.0.1150^[1]

[gamedir-3] 2.0 ^2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Proton_path_note-4] 3.0 ^3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/370910/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (370910) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[enginebuild-1] Verified by User:Mastan on 2022-06-26

[5] Saves from Demo can't be used in full game - GOG.com Forum - last accessed on 2017-12-16

[6] Verified by User:CHibizoid on 2017-12-12

[7] Windowed Mode - GOG.com Forum - last accessed on May 2023

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

[Note 3]

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[3]

[4]

[1]

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 {{Infobox game/row/reception|OpenCritic|2694/kathy-rain|80}}
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 {{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/art styles        | Pixel art }}
 {{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/themes            | Contemporary, Detective/mystery, North America }}
-{{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/series            | }}
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+{{Availability/row| Gamesplanet | 4044-1 | Steam |  |  | Windows, OS X }}
+{{Availability/row| GOG.com | kathy_rain | DRM-free |  |  | Windows, OS X }}
+{{Availability/row| GMG | kathy-rain | Steam |  |  | Windows, OS X }}
 {{Availability/row| Humble | kathy-rain | Steam |  |  | Windows, OS X }}
 {{Availability/row| MacApp | id1509673960 | MacApp |  |  | OS X }}
-{{Availability/row| Microsoft Store | 9p8hn2t2szgb | Microsoft Store | {{Store feature|Xbox Game Pass}}. | | Windows }}
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-{{Availability/row| Steam | 370910 | Steam |  |  | Windows, OS X }}
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 {{ii}} A demo is available from {{store link|GOG.com|kathy_rain_demo}} and {{store link|Steam|466590}}.
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 {{Game data|
 {{Game data/config|Windows|{{P|game}}\acsetup.cfg}}
-{{Game data/config|OS X|~/Applications/Kathy Rain/KathyRain.app/Contents/Resources/acsetup.cfg}}
+{{Game data/config|Microsoft Store|}}
+{{Game data/config|OS X|{{p|osxhome}}/Applications/Kathy Rain/KathyRain.app/Contents/Resources/acsetup.cfg}}
 }}
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 {{Game data|
 {{Game data/saves|Windows|{{P|game}}\agssave.*}}
-{{Game data/saves|OS X|~/Applications/Kathy Rain/KathyRain.app/Contents/Resources/}}
+{{Game data/saves|Microsoft Store|}}
+{{Game data/saves|OS X|{{p|osxhome}}/Applications/Kathy Rain/KathyRain.app/Contents/Resources/}}
 }}
 {{ii}} The saved games from the Demo version of Kathy Rain are '''not''' interchangeable with the saves of the full game.<ref>{{Refurl|url=https://www.gog.com/forum/kathy_rain/save_from_demo/post2|title=Saves from Demo can't be used in full game - GOG.com Forum|date=2017-12-16}}</ref>
 ===[[Glossary:Save game cloud syncing|Save game cloud syncing]]===
+{{#vardefine:ScummVM|true}}
 {{Save game cloud syncing
-|discord                = true
+|discord                   = true
-|discord notes          =
+|discord notes             =
-|epic games store       =
+|epic games launcher       =
-|epic games store notes =
+|epic games launcher notes =
-|gog galaxy             = false
+|gog galaxy                = false
-|gog galaxy notes       =
+|gog galaxy notes          =
-|origin                 =
+|origin                    =
-|origin notes           =
+|origin notes              =
-|steam cloud            = true
+|steam cloud               = true
-|steam cloud notes      =
+|steam cloud notes         =
-|uplay                  =
+|ubisoft connect           =
-|uplay notes            =
+|ubisoft connect notes     =
-|xbox cloud             = unknown
+|xbox cloud                = false
-|xbox cloud notes       =
+|xbox cloud notes          =
 }}
 ==Video==
-{{Image|Kathy Rain setup.png|Graphics options accessed through <code>{{p|game}}\winsetup.exe</code>.}}
+{{Image|Kathy Rain setup.png|Graphics options accessed through {{file|{{p|game}}\winsetup.exe}}.}}
 {{Video
 |wsgf link                  =
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 |4k ultra hd wsgf award     =
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-|widescreen resolution notes= {{term|Pixel-perfect}} 320x240. Scaling algorithm is nearest-neighbor.<br/>Set via <code>{{p|game}}\winsetup.exe</code>.
+|widescreen resolution notes= {{term|Pixel-perfect}} 320x240. Scaling algorithm is nearest-neighbor.<br/>Set via {{file|{{p|game}}\winsetup.exe}}.
 |multimonitor               = false
 |multimonitor notes         =
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 |fov notes                  =
 |windowed                   = true
-|windowed notes             = Set via <code>{{p|game}}\winsetup.exe</code> or see [[#Windowed|Windowed]].
+|windowed notes             = Set via {{file|{{p|game}}\winsetup.exe}} or see [[#Windowed|Windowed]].
 |borderless windowed        = false
 |borderless windowed notes  =
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 |antialiasing               = n/a
 |antialiasing notes         =
+|upscaling                  = unknown
+|upscaling tech             =
+|upscaling notes            =
 |vsync                      = false
 |vsync notes                =
@@ Line 130: / Line 146: @@
 {{--}} Mouse cursor is not restricted to the game window and can move into the desktop.
-{{Fixbox|description=Forcing windowed mode|ref=<ref>{{Refcheck|user=CHibizoid|date=2017-12-12}}</ref><ref>[https://www.gog.com/forum/kathy_rain/windowed_mode_with_smaller_size_mac/page1 Windowed Mode - GOG.com Forum]</ref>|fix=
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-# Open <code>acsetup.cfg</code> with a text editor.
+# Open {{file|acsetup.cfg}} with a text editor.
 # Change the line <code>windowed=0</code> to <code>windowed=1</code>. This will launch the game in windowed mode.
 # Now change the line <code>gfxfilter=max</code> to <code>gfxfilter=StdScaleX</code>, where X is a multiplier of the original 320x240. Example: Setting <code>gfxfilter=StdScale2</code> will launch the game in a 640x480 window. This will limit the size of the window so it won't be larger than your screen.
@@ Line 194: / Line 210: @@
 |mute on focus lost notes =
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+|eax support notes         =
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+|royalty free audio notes  =
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-|mac os x powerpc app   =
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 |macos intel 32-bit app = unknown
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+|macos arm app          = unknown
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 |linux 32-bit executable= unknown
 |linux 64-bit executable= unknown
+|linux arm app          = unknown
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 |recCPU   = 1 GHz (32 or 64-bit)
 |recRAM   = 2 GB
-|recHD    = 1 GB
+|recHD    =
 |recGPU   = WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
-|recDX    = 9.0
+|recDX    =
 }}
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 |recOS    = 10.10
-|recCPU   = Intel processor
+|recCPU   =
 |recRAM   = 4 GB
-|recHD    = 1 GB
+|recHD    =
 |recGPU   = 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
 }}
 {{References}}

Developers

	Clifftop Games
Publishers
	Raw Fury
Engines
	Adventure Game Studio^{[Note 1]}
Release dates
Windows	May 5, 2016
macOS (OS X)	May 5, 2016
Reception
Metacritic	77
OpenCritic	80
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Relaxed
Perspectives	Scrolling, Side view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Adventure
Art styles	Pixel art
Themes	Contemporary, Detective/mystery, North America
Series	Kathy Rain