AdventureFit check
Is Red Matter worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- VR players who enjoy investigating clues rather than focusing on combat
- Puzzle players who prefer machinery and object manipulation to action challenges
- Science-fiction fans who want a story centered on an isolated research facility
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking combat-focused gameplay, since the described activities center on exploration and puzzles
- Those who prefer open-ended play, as the experience follows a story through a research facility
- Players looking for a non-VR adventure
Our take on Red Matter
The pitch emphasizes a mystery that grows more surreal, while the described play centers on scanning clues, translating documents, and operating machinery. The investigation unfolds through facility spaces and environmental puzzles, rather than combat-focused encounters.
What is Red Matter?
Red Matter follows Agent Epsilon, an astronaut from the Atlantic Union, during an investigation of a deserted Volgravian science facility on Rhea, a satellite of Saturn.
Set amid a bleak Cold War future, this VR adventure combines exploration with environmental puzzles. Examine objects, scan clues, interpret written messages, and study traces left by the vanished staff. Challenges include restoring electrical systems, deciphering data, using unfamiliar equipment, and moving items with motion controllers. The route crosses Rhea’s hostile exterior, stark brutalist passageways, subterranean complexes, and concealed laboratories while the mystery takes increasingly strange turns. Players can navigate with continuous movement, teleportation, or dash-based travel.
How Red Matter plays
- 01Clue investigation
- Scans, translated documents, personal belongings, research records, and environmental details contribute to the mystery.
- 02Machinery puzzles
- Progress involves repairing circuits, decoding information, and operating devices found throughout the facility.
- 03Controller tools
- Motion controllers are used to grab objects, scan and translate, and illuminate the surroundings.
- 04Movement options
- Exploration supports smooth locomotion, teleportation, or dash.
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Red Matter: platforms & release
Is Red Matter worth it?
It is worth it if: VR players who enjoy investigating clues rather than focusing on combat. Skip it if: players seeking combat-focused gameplay, since the described activities center on exploration and puzzles.
Where can I download Red Matter?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Red Matter's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Red Matter on?
Windows only.
