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Games like The Rig: A Starmap to Murder

If The Rig: A Starmap to Murder is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Slurpies, Egression and Riven — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About The Rig: A Starmap to Murder: THE RIG is an immersive, story-driven, space-noir ADVENTURE GAME developed exclusively for VR. Explore a fully-interactive light freighter as you attempt to land, find your brother, and uncover a tightly-woven mystery of murder and broken romance.

2020IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDWindowsby Sunset Division
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  1. Space Slurpies

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Rig: A Starmap to Murder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Snake, slither, SLURRPP! Chill out with your friends in this multiplayer arcade game. Relax as you grow your colorful space snake by eating lots of food and avoiding playful baddies and other players. How long can you grow your Space Slurpie?

    2021ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Egression

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Rig: A Starmap to Murder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    You’re here for puzzles, and that’s what you’ll get. Step into a deluxe virtual escape room establishment. Challenge your mind with handcrafted puzzles designed exclusively for VR. Explore immersive environments and piece together the clues to escape!

    2022Adventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Riven

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Rig: A Starmap to Murder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Myst

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Rig: A Starmap to Murder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. FORM

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Rig: A Starmap to Murder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Enter a surreal adventure where puzzles are built from dreams and memories. Solve the mystery behind an ancient artifact. Advance through a world that transforms around you. Transcend this existence.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Solus Project

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Rig: A Starmap to Murder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. RollerCoaster VR Universe

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Rig: A Starmap to Murder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Virtual Reality Roller Coasters: Visit dinosaurs forest, medieval castle, space, underwater, horror, micro-world and city environment.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Project LUX

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Rig: A Starmap to Murder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    The crime... is murder. Our story takes place in a court trial, set in a futuristic world where most humans have cyberbrains. The defendant on trial is an agent who coordinates with artists to create the data for cyberbrains to interact with people’s emotions. The victim is a girl artist named Lux.

    2018IndieAdventureCasual24.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Rig: A Starmap to Murder at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Rig: A Starmap to Murder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Rig: A Starmap to Murder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under The Rig: A Starmap to Murder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under The Rig: A Starmap to Murder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under The Rig: A Starmap to Murder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Rig: A Starmap to Murder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Rig: A Starmap to Murder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under The Rig: A Starmap to Murder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

    2015AdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Tails Noir: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Supper

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Samorost 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.

    2021IndieAdventureCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Mitoza

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

    It's not a game, it's a toy. Explore all cycles and prepare yourself to accept the inevitable effects of Mitoza.

    2021IndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Rig: A Starmap to Murder

How much does The Rig: A Starmap to Murder cost?
The Rig: A Starmap to Murder is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Rig: A Starmap to Murder?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Rig: A Starmap to Murder are Space Slurpies, Egression, Riven.
Who developed The Rig: A Starmap to Murder?
The Rig: A Starmap to Murder was developed by Sunset Division.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Rig: A Starmap to Murder.

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