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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 1,108 reviews of which 1,001 were positive and 107 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam with a 40% discount.

The Steam community has classified Red Matter into these genres:

VR Puzzle Adventure Sci-fi Exploration Mystery Atmospheric Story Rich Cold War Great Soundtrack Horror Singleplayer Indie Casual Walking Simulator Immersive Sim 3D Beautiful Cinematic First-Person

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System requirements

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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
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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Nov. 2024
A VR reference title Works fine with PSVR2 Low-Medium Cyber Sickness Level I've recently learned that there's a PC Adapter for PSVR2 on PC since August and gave it a try. Having RM2 on PS5, I've decided to buy RM1 for PC (on discount atm) and test the PS5 VR headset with it. Controls are intuitive and the game offers a great variety of interactions and fun ideas (like the translator or the AI communicating with printed cards) and I'm having a blast with the OLED screen of the PSVR2. As for causing Cyber Sickness, I'd rate the game low to medium (if running smoothly). I prefer the jetpack movement over teleports many other VR puzzle games offer. The slow default walking speed does help too. To me Red Matter 1 & 2 are must-have VR titles and a good entries to VR too. Full System: i9 13900k, Gigabyte Aorus Z790 Master, 2x16 GB DDR5 GSkill Trident Z5 (no RGB crap) 6Ghz, MSI RTX3080ti Gaming Trio X, Soundblaster Z, WD Black SN 850X 4TB M2, Corsair HX850 Platinum PSU (850W)
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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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Frequently Asked Questions

Red Matter is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

Red Matter is currently available at a 40% discount. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.

Red Matter received 1,001 positive votes out of a total of 1,108 achieving a rating of 8.55.
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Red Matter was developed and published by Vertical Robot.

Red Matter is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Red Matter is not playable on MacOS.

Red Matter is not playable on Linux.

Red Matter is a single-player game.

Red Matter does not currently offer any DLC.

Red Matter does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Red Matter does not support Steam Remote Play.

Red Matter is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Red Matter PEGI 12
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Release 10 Nov 2018
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