The point-and-click adventure game genre has seen quite the resurgence. Once seen as incredibly niche, a growing gaming audience has helped provide a market for many future games, many from those who enjoyed the genre back in the day. Kathy Rain [$4.99] deliberately pays homage to the 90's era not only by taking place in the decade of grunge, but through a low-resolution aesthetic that tries to make the game feel like it came from that original era. And thanks to a compelling story, this is a great way to spend a few hours solving a dark mystery.

Kathy Rain has you playing as the motorcycle-riding, chain-smoking, wise-cracking Kathy Rain. She's a journalism student at college who returns to Conwell Springs for her grandfather's funeral. He died under mysterious circumstances, having spent over a decade in a vegetative state after a mysterious incident when Kathy was just a child. Kathy is unnerved by this, and returning to Conwell Springs serves as the impetus for her to explore what happened to her father. Things soon turn weird, as the suicide of a young artist with strange paintings plays a role, as does the creepy church in town. Visually, Kathy Rain is meant to evoke the adventure games of the 1990s with its low-resolution pixel art and 4:3 aspect ratio. The game looks great, I just wish that there was the option to play it in a pixel-perfect scaling method, rather than what is offered right now where it sclaes to full-screen. See, the game runs at 320x240 resolution...