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Red Matter cover art

Red Matter

Vertical Robot · 2018-11-10

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 15, 2019 (Meta Quest 2), Aug 15, 2019 (Oculus Quest), Oct 05, 2023 (PlayStation VR2), May 24, 2018 (Oculus VR), Dec 06, 2018 (PlayStation VR), Nov 10, 2018 (SteamVR)

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.

90%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$13.24
steam price (US)
Red Matter is a 2018 sci-fi virtual reality game developed and published by Spanish studio Vertical Robot. The player plays as Agent Epsilon, who crash lands on one of Saturn's moons, Rhea, and goes to explore a nearby military base belonging to the fictional People's Republic of Volgravia. The game received positive reviews from critics, who praised the atmosphere of the environments, but criticized some of the puzzles as being confusing. Red Matter released on May 24, 2018, for Oculus Rift, with versions for the HTC Vive, Oculus Quest, and PlayStation VR launching in November 2018, December 2018, and August 2019, respectively. A sequel, Red Matter 2, was released for Steam VR and Meta Quest 2 on 18 August 2022 and for PlayStation VR2 on 18 May 2023.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 41 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 5% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 28% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 30k–71k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,181 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $12.49 at Steam (2021-06-24) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 17 of 32 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
474720182026Week of 2018-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$25.99$12.492018-09-202026-08-052018-09-20 — best price $25.992018-11-03 — best price $24.992019-02-11 — best price $24.992019-07-10 — best price $24.992019-12-03 — best price $24.992020-02-20 — best price $24.992020-06-15 — best price $24.992020-08-17 — best price $24.992020-11-25 — best price $14.992021-01-14 — best price $14.992021-03-19 — best price $24.992021-06-24 — best price $12.492021-08-20 — best price $14.992021-11-15 — best price $14.992021-12-22 — best price $14.992022-03-28 — best price $24.992022-06-13 — best price $24.992022-09-06 — best price $24.992022-11-22 — best price $14.992023-02-06 — best price $14.992023-03-24 — best price $24.992023-06-13 — best price $14.992023-08-18 — best price $14.992023-10-22 — best price $24.992023-12-08 — best price $14.992024-03-07 — best price $24.992024-07-11 — best price $24.992024-10-10 — best price $24.992024-11-27 — best price $13.242025-01-02 — best price $24.992025-02-10 — best price $24.992025-04-07 — best price $12.992025-06-27 — best price $13.742025-09-23 — best price $24.992025-11-05 — best price $13.742026-01-01 — best price $24.992026-02-19 — best price $24.992026-03-26 — best price $24.992026-08-05 — best price $13.24
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
92.6%
earned "Basic Volgravian"
35.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Italian, German, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,8658%20
PS5, PS VR2 (PlayStation)1,00348%20
PS4 (PlayStation)32553%20
PS4, PS VR (PlayStation)29154%20

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

Player tags

VRIndieCasualHorrorPuzzleSci-fiMysteryCold WarAdventureStory Rich

Census log

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

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