The Rig is going FREE
Starting November 2, The Rig: A Starmap to Murder will be permanently free to play.
After about 6 years on Steam, The Rig is going permanently free on November 2. Thank you to everyone who played and supported it
About This Game
THE RIG is a single player, point-and-click style ADVENTURE game for VR, without the point-and-click Inspired by our favorite adventure games from the 1990s, you explore in first person a dilapidated travel agency, an old beater of a starship, and finally encounter The Rig itself — a hulking asteroid mine at the very edge of deep space.
The Rig lets you experience a tight, focused story with a playtime of around the length of a feature film.
WOLF 424A, VIRGO SECTOR — DECEMBER 5th, 2132:
Youre Willard Pike, failing Mars-based travel agent, now sent to the far reaches of edge-space by your desperate sister-in-law. Shes charged you with tracking down Dixon, your estranged, deadbeat brother. Dixons last known whereabouts are the AMR Alexey Stakhanov a remote, ominous mining rig hitched to the side of a massive asteroid. But if you do find Dixon, if you stop him from running… what then Do you bring back the man who ruined his family
THE RIG is a story-driven, immersive ADVENTURE GAME for VR, where you try to unravel the chain of events leading up to the present-day by exploring a small space-freighter and solving conversations and environmental puzzles to find a way to resolve your familys deep-space drama.
Story-centric Puzzles
Outer space can be unforgiving, and youll need to find creative solutions to get where you need to be. Sometimes the answer may be obvious and right in front of you, or sometimes youll need to think a bit outside the box. Sometimes youll need to turn the gravity off. Just another day in the Twenty-second Century.
Rich, old-fashioned detective storytelling over a century in the future In the tradition of The Maltese Falcon or Touch of Evil, this is a noir-style story like out of the 1940s, but told in the 2100s. Youre play as Willard Pike, a Mars-based travel agent thrown back into a family drama hed hoped hed left behind for good. Willards mission Find his deadbeat brother Dixon, the man Willard hates, before someone even worse does.
The story centers around a fully lived-in, explorable starship hand crafted by an artist in the style of classic science-fiction vehicles like the Millennium Falcon or the Serenity.
Built For VR
Designed from the ground-up for a VR experience. Interact with objects and your surroundings in a realistic way, and try not to break anything. Pull levels and panels, command your spaceship, and communicate with a number of friendly or not-so-friendly characters, all without leaving your living room.
Play at your own pace. This is a game about exploration, about story and atmosphere.
Fully Voice-acted
Features a diverse cast of talented and professional voice actors for an immersive experience with branching, narrative dialog. Are you tough-as-nails, no time to argue Or easy-going and just down on your luck Optional subtitles can aid in the experience.
