Red Matter

Vertical Robot / Nov 10, 2018 / Adventure, Indie

windows
Steam Deck Unsupported

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Enter an abandoned Cold War base on a moon of Saturn in this atmospheric VR puzzle adventure. Scan evidence, translate Volgravian messages, manipulate strange machinery, and uncover a sci-fi mystery that grows more surreal with every discovery.

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What's new

1.0.010 patch

2023-10-26

· Revamped controls: Now with proper smooth locomotion · 4K textures: Increased resolution of textures across the board · New localization: Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese

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What players say

Very Positive

89% positive, 789 reviews

Recommended2 hrs played

I wouldn't recommend this for the full price of $25 but, if you can get it on a good sale, it's not terrible. It's not particularly good, either, though. There are many better puzzle games for VR. Despite this game being often recommended, it's pretty weak in a lot of ways... First off, the "puzzles" barely count as puzzles. There are like 2 real puzzles in the entire game and the rest of them fall into 1 of 2...

12 found this helpful, 2026-03-29

Recommended4 hrs played

Red Matter is an OK game. For the asking price of 25 bucks, I don't believe it is worth it. Buy on sale. I took my time going through the game and only got 3.6h out of it, and I even got all the achievements. That being said, let's shift the analysis from quantity to quality. Was that 3.6h good? I would say "yes with some caveats". The story is pretty good. It could have done with some more fleshing out, but it was...

13 found this helpful, 2025-11-07

Recommended3 hrs played

Every VR gamer knows Red Matter (I think), so I probably don't need to explain what it is. It's a simplified adventure game that has slick production values at the expense of being very, very short. If you didn't know, now you know. I've known about this game for years and years, but only yesterday did I step foot on Mars. No, I had always thought it took place on Mars but it's really a moon of Saturn. I first...

3 found this helpful, 2025-11-04