Red Matter on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Red Matter is a story-driven VR puzzle adventure game set during a dystopian sci-fi Cold War. Take on the role of Agent Epsilon, an astronaut of the Atlantic Union dispatched to an abandoned Volgravian moon base on a faraway planet. Your mission: to investigate a shady top secret research project.

Red Matter is a vr, puzzle and adventure game developed and published by Vertical Robot.
Released on November 10th 2018 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Italian, German, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 1,092 reviews of which 988 were positive and 104 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 12.99€ on Steam with a 48% discount.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7
  • Processor: Intel i3-6100 / AMD FX4350
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia 970 or equivalent
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 3 GB available space
  • VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC

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March 2025
Very well made. An amazing achievement for a two member dev team. Puzzles are not difficult, but are engaging. Worked well on my HP Reverb G2 after switching to SteamVR.
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March 2025
Good game with balanced, in terms of difficulty, puzzles. You probably will be able to manage all or almost all of them by yourself without the need to google solutions. Graphics is descent, story - interesting enough. The only negative part - motion is too slow, you are walking like a turtle, and flying is just slightly better. Also game physics is very clunky.
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Dec. 2024
This has been an interesting little VR experience so far. I’m really liking the story and the puzzles. The puzzles aren’t extremely challenging. They’re just enough to make you think a bit, but not so much to make you need to google the solutions. Graphics and performance are excellent. Texture work is impeccable. It seems well optimized, and it’s always refreshing to have a game work the way it is supposed to. It is crazy to me that smaller dev teams can manage to push out a game that just runs well, yet AAA devs struggle with that concept. Whereas I’m really enjoying what I have played so far, from what I hear, it’s not a particularly long game. And it makes sense. Playing it, I can just feel that the gameplay wouldn’t translate well to some 10 hour game or something. Having said that, I bought it on sale and probably wouldn’t purchase this for for its full price of $25. But for $12.50 I think it’s well worth it!
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Oct. 2024
Decent puzzle game, but very short (2.5 hours) for the asking price, so I'd only recommend this on a sale. Nitpick: The flashlight is really weird and pointless in the game, you have to hold the trigger for max brightness. It replacing your left hand tool also makes it that much more annoying to use. Should've been on/off toggle on the right hand. The game does not use the grip button at all, so interacting with stuff is kinda annoying at times, but definitely not an issue.
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Aug. 2024
Excellent VR sci-fi game, worked well with my HP Reverb G2. Graphics, environments and gameplay is very good, puzzles are well balanced with increasing difficulty although not super challenging. I enjoyed it so much that I really wished it was longer, but nevertheless I definitely recommend this game!
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Red Matter
8.6
988
104
Online players
1
Developer
Vertical Robot
Publisher
Vertical Robot
Release 10 Nov 2018
VR VR Only
Platforms