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Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“f you're a fan of point and click adventure games I highly recommend Kathy Rain. It's short but so so good, it has that feeling of the old 90s games with awesome pixel art and snappy one liners. Very heartfelt, and deals with some really heavy themes.”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“This game was alright. The story was a decent enough mystery, and I think it was executed well. I liked how they portray the characters, they have some depth to them which is a bit more immersive. Gameplay-wise, I have some complaints about how long it takes to move around…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“I think the ending came on a little quick but overall a fun game. Really like Kathy's personality and not being pushed around. And the 90s aesthetic felt good. You can see there was care put into making this game. But overall recommend playing it if you want to play a point and…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:05 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Patch v.1.0.3.5270 changelog
Updated Unity engine version to address urgent security vulnerability
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Point & Click · Female Protagonist · Detective · Pixel Graphics · 1990's · Mystery · Investigation · Story Rich · Puzzle · Adventure · Emotional · Atmospheric (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 40 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.kathyraingame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: 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.