The Rig: A Starmap to Murder

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:

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.

Latest news

• Patch Notes·24 Aug 2020Official

  Patch 1.1: The Locomotion Update!

  We here at Sunset Division couldn't be happier with how much y'all are liking The Rig! We've heard some feedback regarding our default teleport locomotion and some performance issues and have been working hard to address it. With that said, we're happy to announce our first major patch. Check out the notes below! Locomotion Options By far the biggest thing you have requested is locomotion options, so here you go! Choose between Teleport and Smooth Locomotion (with 2 different speed settings) Choose between Snap Turn, Smooth Turn, or No Turning Choose which hand controls movement vs. turning Quality/Performance Options We know that for many of you, frame rate is SUPER important. That's why we've added some basic performance options that you can tweak. Overall quality options Toggle HBAO (Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion): NOTE: If you're having performance issues, disabling this option should give you a big improvement Thank you all for your feedback and for playing our little game. Please keep it coming! Love, Sunset Division
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• Announcements·26 Jun 2020Official

  The Rig: A Starmap to Murder is Now Available!

  We here at Sunset Division are so excited to announce that THE RIG: A STARMAP TO MURDER is now available for download! Thanks so much to all of you who have shown interest in the game, we really can't wait for you to play it. We’d love to hear what you think! Please head to the community forums with any feedback or questions - we'll be hanging out there, too! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32746588/e3d9095c4887c1cc28bdbdf7bd54a7fb5b7c16c6.png
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• Announcements·6 Jun 2020Official

  Official Release Date Announcement

  Well, it's been a long time coming, but our debut game is coming out in less than a month. We're a small, scrappy team working on The Rig in our spare time, and we couldn't be more excited to share it with you all! For anyone who's followed us for a while, we ARE still alive. Progress is always slower when you've got pesky things like "work" and "children" to deal with, but we're happy to say that The Rig is finally done (barring those fun little surprise bugs). If you're even a little bit excited to play The Rig and know someone else who might like it, we would really appreciate you spreading the word. We don't have a full-time marketing team (okay, we don't have a marketing team at all), so any word-of-mouth is really awesome! You can find us on social media here: http://twitter.com/TheRigVR https://www.instagram.com/sunsetdivisiongames/ Check out the launch trailer here! If you have any questions, please feel free to post in the forums. We will be responding as quickly as we can. Can't wait for you all to experience The Rig!
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