Kathy Rain

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

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.

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]}

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]

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
DirectDraw	5

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

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

↑ 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.

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