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Red Matter 2

Vertical Robot · 2022-08-18

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 18, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 18, 2022 (Meta Quest 2), May 18, 2023 (PlayStation VR2)

Enter an extraordinarily convincing sci-fi world in this story-driven VR puzzle adventure. Explore off-world facilities, operate tactile tools, solve environmental puzzles, and unravel a reality-bending Cold War mystery.

92%
positive of 701 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 68 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9/week).
  • · Review velocity up 26% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 40% of 10,805 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 701 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $15.59 at Steam (2024-12-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 16 of 33 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
626220222026Week of 2022-08-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$15.592022-08-182026-07-312022-08-18 — best price $29.992022-11-29 — best price $29.992022-12-22 — best price $22.492023-02-07 — best price $29.992023-03-16 — best price $22.492023-03-24 — best price $29.992023-05-31 — best price $29.992023-06-29 — best price $20.992023-08-25 — best price $29.992023-10-30 — best price $20.992023-11-28 — best price $29.992023-12-11 — best price $29.992024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-03-14 — best price $17.992024-04-29 — best price $29.992024-08-11 — best price $16.492024-10-03 — best price $17.992024-10-24 — best price $17.992024-11-27 — best price $16.492024-12-05 — best price $17.992025-01-02 — best price $29.992025-01-23 — best price $17.992025-02-24 — best price $29.992025-03-20 — best price $29.992025-05-11 — best price $18.592025-06-26 — best price $17.092025-07-22 — best price $16.492025-09-23 — best price $29.992025-10-06 — best price $29.992025-11-06 — best price $29.992025-12-03 — best price $29.992026-01-01 — best price $29.992026-01-30 — best price $29.992026-02-19 — best price $29.992026-03-05 — best price $29.992026-04-02 — best price $16.492026-06-08 — best price $29.992026-07-17 — best price $17.992026-07-31 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
60.1%
earned "Fly Me to the Moon"
27%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Italian, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5, PS VR2 (PlayStation)1,47139%25
Steam (Steam)24819%24

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

VR6DOFIndieActionCombatLinearPuzzleSci-fiMysteryPhysics

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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