Free games like The Rig: A Starmap to Murder
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Rig: A Starmap to Murder, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to The Rig: A Starmap to Murder — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to The Rig: A Starmap to Murder — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Free-to-play alternative to The Rig: A Starmap to Murder — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Tails Noir: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to The Rig: A Starmap to Murder — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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The Supper
Free-to-play alternative to The Rig: A Starmap to Murder — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to The Rig: A Starmap to Murder — no purchase or trial window. 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!
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Samorost 1
Free-to-play alternative to The Rig: A Starmap to Murder — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Mitoza
Free-to-play alternative to The Rig: A Starmap to Murder — no purchase or trial window. 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.