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Red Matter
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.
View on Steam ↗ $24.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“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...…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Short but fun and nicely done. Worth a buy when on sale.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Red Matter is a very short game, but it's incredibly immersive and still looks great in 2026. The attention to detail is beautiful, but I just wish it was longer. The puzzles are very good and do require a bit of thinking, but they are very satisfying when you get them. Ah well,…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:08 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
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1.0.010 patch
· Revamped controls: Now with proper smooth locomotion · 4K textures: Increased resolution of textures across the board · New localization: Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simp
Open SSL startup crash fix
-Fixed bug with OpenSSL that would cause a crash during startup on Intel 11th and 12th Gen CPUs.
Bug Fixes
Fixed: Quantum Lab laser puzzle bug (sometimes lasers weren't redirecting). Fixed: Blocker when scanning oniric data drives while flying. Fixed: Readjusted some trigger volumes in Habitat section.
Red Matter's Winter Sale!
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | VR · Puzzle · Adventure · Sci-fi · Exploration · Mystery · Atmospheric · Story Rich · Cold War · Great Soundtrack · Horror · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Tracked Controller Support · VR Only · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Spanish - Spain * , Italian, German, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil * |
| Achievements | 20 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://redmattergame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: 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