Games like Kathy Rain
If Kathy Rain is your kind of game, the closest matches are Whispers of a Machine, Lamplight City and The Blackwell Legacy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its voice acting enhances immersion, writing quality is exceptional and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Kathy Rain is a 2016 point-and-click adventure indie game set in the 1990s, where players follow journalism major Kathy as she investigates her grandfather's mysterious death and confronts buried family secrets. The game features a retro pixel-art style, environmental puzzles, a dialogue-choice system, and character development woven through a psychological horror-tinged mystery narrative. Reviewers highlight the puzzles as logical and satisfying, and note that the voice acting enhances immersion. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, emotional, and melancholic. The game is priced at $9.99 USD and runs in a playable state on Steam Deck, holding a 93% positive rating based on 1259 Steam reviews.
About Kathy Rain: 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.
Players who liked Kathy Rain also play
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Whispers of a Machine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Top pick for Kathy Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Kathy Rain.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
Lamplight City
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Second-strongest match for Kathy Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
The Blackwell Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Third-strongest match for Kathy Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
Blackwell Deception
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Ranked #4 for Kathy Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Ranked #5 for Kathy Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
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 2: Soothsayer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Ranked #6 for Kathy Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
Chinatown Detective Agency
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Ranked #7 for Kathy Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Kathy Rain.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
Contrast
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Ranked #8 for Kathy Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
CONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry jazz ambiance.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kathy Rain at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kathy Rain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kathy Rain.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kathy Rain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kathy Rain.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kathy Rain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kathy Rain.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kathy Rain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kathy Rain.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Kathy Rain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Kathy Rain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kathy Rain.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kathy Rain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kathy Rain.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kathy Rain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kathy Rain.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kathy Rain.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Kathy Rain.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kathy Rain.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kathy Rain.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from Clifftop Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Clifftop Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Whispers of a Machine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Another title from Clifftop Games, the studio behind Kathy Rain. Shares Adventure with Kathy Rain.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Another title from Clifftop Games, the studio behind Kathy Rain. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
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 2: Soothsayer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Another title from Clifftop Games, the studio behind Kathy Rain. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Blackwell Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
Blackwell Deception
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
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.
Contrast
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kathy Rain.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kathy Rain.
CONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry jazz ambiance.
Frequently asked about Kathy Rain
- Does Kathy Rain run on Steam Deck?
- Kathy Rain is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Kathy Rain cost?
- Kathy Rain is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kathy Rain?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kathy Rain are Whispers of a Machine, Lamplight City, The Blackwell Legacy.
- Who developed Kathy Rain?
- Kathy Rain was developed by Clifftop Games and published by Raw Fury.
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