How to play Kathy Rain: Director's Cut on Mac

PlatformsPlatform, Computer

Game summary

Award-winning adventure Kathy Rain returns in the Director’s Cut, featuring an extended story with more puzzles to solve and new areas to explore. Witness the emergence of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town. Director's Cut Features: - Extended storyline with a prolonged ending, hundreds of lines of additional dialogue, and multiple new areas to explore. - Several new major puzzle chains and many small additions and tweaks of existing puzzles. - Enlarged game environments to fill up the entire screen without any black bars on the sides. - Made countless visual improvements, such as more character animations, better lighting/shadows and extra weather effects. - Streamlined mouse controls with an intuitive single click interface. - Controller support done right. Lean back in your chair and take smooth direct control of Kathy, with no messy cursor getting in the way. - Expanded and remixed soundtrack by the original composer, Daniel Kobylarz. - Five brand new motorcycle designs to unlock and customize the Katmobile with.
First released: Oct 2021

Play Kathy Rain: Director's Cut on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Kathy Rain: Director's Cut on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Kathy Rain: Director's Cut installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Kathy Rain: Director's Cut like you would on any PC.
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