Kathy Rain
Worth it · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.92.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $1.67/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, 320 x 240 32 bit, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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.
What drives the score
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The value story
May 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 56 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $4.92 BANGER line 47 times.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Gorogoa ($14.99, scores 72) and The Silent Age ($9.99, scores 72).
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 361 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026.
The drop-off
17% start to 13% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
10 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Great game. Feels a lot like Full Throttle and even has some references to it as well. Some of the dialogue writing felt off, but for the most part it's really good and has an excellent conclusion. Word of warning though. The game can crash when on the travel screen pretty frequently. Be sure to save pretty often so you do not lose progress.
If there was a neutral option, I would probably use that, but as it is, I don't know if I would recommend this game to anyone outside of a very specific audience, and even then, there are other games I would recommend first. It's really the most 5/10 game I can think of. Not great, not terrible. Nice concepts, mediocre execution. Voice acting is passable but nothing to write home about. Puzzles aren't too hard, but...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Kathy Rain scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/370910/kathy-rainThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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