The Rig: A Starmap to Murder
Sunset Division · 2020 · Adventure, Indie, Casual, VR, Mystery
PC
Mostly Positive76% · 51
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About The Rig: A Starmap to Murder
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:
You're Willard Pike, failing Mars-based travel agent, now sent to the far reaches of edge-space by your desperate sister-in-law. She's charged you with tracking down Dixon, your estranged, deadbeat brother. Dixon's 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 family's deep-space drama.
Story-centric Puzzles
Outer space can be unforgiving, and you'll 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 you'll need to think a bit outside the box. Sometimes you'll 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. You're play as Willard Pike, a Mars-based travel agent thrown back into a family drama he'd hoped he'd left behind for good. Willard's 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. \
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:
You're Willard Pike, failing Mars-based travel agent, now sent to the far reaches of edge-space by your desperate sister-in-law. She's charged you with tracking down Dixon, your estranged, deadbeat brother. Dixon's 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 family's deep-space drama.
Outer space can be unforgiving, and you'll 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 you'll need to think a bit outside the box. Sometimes you'll need to turn the gravity off. Just another day in the Twenty-second Century.
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.
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.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Very nice story driven puzzle game. Took me ~2hrs to get all achievements and see all the endings, and hear all/most of the different dialogue so its a bit on the short side if you decide to not do all that. I got it on sale and i think it was a fair price. Voice acting is superb, graphics are really stylish and i liked how they looked. Puzzles are a bit on the simple side, but they are satisfying to solve, I feel like there could have been a few more puzzles. The story is easy to follow and its nice to have it as an incentive Performance was acceptable; 60fps on a 3600/1080 rig. The game crashed once when a fire broke out, after reloading it went fine but i got a dip in performance at that same part. Aside from that, an achievement didnt pop up when i think it should. But that was it. I found it interesting and worth my time, it could have been better of course, but it was a pleasant experience for the duration, i really appreciated that you can figure out whats happening before it comes to an end so its easy to choose the good ending. Recommended for anyone that wants a story based game with a few puzzles thrown in, that add to the story.1 found this helpful
I really liked this game. It's a narrative driven puzzler in line with a game like The Station, but the puzzles are easier. The game has multiple endings with a very nice pay off in the end scene. My only complaint is the game ends just as it's really taking off. You can probably get thru this game in a 1 hour play thru, maybe 2 if you really take your time. Game length is my only complaint. I'd really like to see some more from this developer.1 found this helpful
I have no ide why this have a positive review, this not the game, at best it is prolog to a game. I t is hard to say there is a story here when all story is sumurise to your borthere is gone go here end. It is not even well made.
Lots of style, and some decent voice acting really makes this game a hidden gem. I have to confess, it took me over a year to finally finish this game, even though I only have about 3 hours of game play on record. Mainly because I encountered horrible clipping problems with the game when playing with a Rift S that kept me from ever getting out of the spaceship. I recently got an Index and didn't have any issues. Along with the clipping, certain objects just felt off when I picked them up, like my actual hands were 6 inches away from what I was holding. Combine this with the somewhat clunky design of the handles and switches, and it left me with an overall clunky feeling when I think about the game. But, forget about that - this adventure is a blast. The holograms, star charts, and just overall feel of being in a future city or personal spacecraft complete with trash and personal items strewn about brings the adventure to life. The ending is well worth the effort - made me feel a little like Mel in Firefly at the end of one of their more dangerous missions. Definitely worth the $$, especially if you pick it up on sale.
Cute little game. Very immersive even if it's painfully indie with its graphics, poor optimizations, and a few strange control issues. It's short but worth the money, only if to see longer and higher quality stuff from these devs.
Great game! with good story line. Great modeling and effects. Just wish it had longer play time. Would like to see future episodes and characters.
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