Rainswept is a side-scrolling adventure detective game with a variety of puzzles. Detective Michael Anderson is sent to the small town of Pineview to help the local police with a simple case, but this is only at first glance. A married couple is found dead in their own kitchen. Local residents believe that this was a group suicide, because they behaved extremely distantly. You have to put all the puzzles together and try to uncover the truth of this case.