Kathy Rain is a point-and-click adventure video game developed by Clifftop Games and published by Raw Fury. The game is set in 1995 and follows a college girl named Kathy who returns to her hometown to look into a mystery related to her recently deceased grandfather while confronting her troubled past.
Plot
In 1995, Kathy Rain, a college student studying journalism, returns to her fictional hometown of Conwell Springs after she learns of her paternal grandfather's, Joseph Rain's, passing. At the funeral, she immediately reconnects with her grandmother, whom she has not seen since she was a child. Shortly after the funeral, Kathy's grandmother explains that an incident involving Joseph had left him confined to a wheelchair in a vegetative state without any medical explanation. Curious, Kathy decides to probe deeper into what happened to her grandfather.
In town, Kathy finds a tape from Joseph in the police archives and gets involved in a case he had been investigating. In particular, a young girl named Lily Myers who drowned in 1975 in an apparent suicide. Kathy visits Lily's mother at their lakeside cabin and learns that, leading up to Lily's death, she had become very withdrawn and engrossed in her paintings, which had generated particular interest for Joseph. Lily's mother had since sold off Lily's paintings to an art collector in order to continue supporting herself and her son, Nathan. The art collector happens to be Charles Wade, a fellow pilot and best friend of Joseph in years past. Kathy is eventually able to track down Charles at the local health clinic in Conwell Springs. After realizing who she is, Charles explains that he and Joseph had a falling out after Kathy's father, Brian, and her mother became involved in criminal activity. Charles moved out of Conwell Springs later due to his growing business, but he never forgot his friendship with Joseph. However, he knows nothing of the incident that caused Joseph to become comatose. He also explains that all the art he had bought from Lily's family had since been stolen from his family mansion, but has no further information on who may have stolen them or why. Kathy eventually finds out that the local bike gang, the Black Hats, stole the paintings. As her father was part of the gang, Kathy is able to enter their bar and meet with the gang president, Big Beau. However, he refuses to tell her about the robbery.
Unable to get more information at this point, Kathy turns her attention to an overdeveloped photo Joseph had stashed in a safe: an image of a forest with three bright orbs of lights and a red flower. Kathy has suspicions that the local church, whose founder ran a cult in the 1970s, may know more, as their symbol features the same three light orbs, but cannot get any more useful information from the current priest, Isaac. Kathy's roommate, Eileen, helps Kathy identify the flower as an endangered flower that has the ability to induce hallucinations. Kathy eventually finds her way to the spot where the photo was taken, but suddenly has a strange encounter with a mysterious bald man dressed in red who instructs her to continue following her grandfather. Kathy then mysteriously finds herself back at her grandmother's house. Kathy returns to the photo site, and this time she finds a torn drawing by Nathan featuring the mysterious man in red. Kathy then learns that Isaac had hired the Black Hats to steal Lily's paintings.