Red Matter 2
Fair · Shooter · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. A BANGER at $5.00, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Aug 2022 (lowest $15.59, Dec 2024).
- Length
- 6.5h 6.9h to 100%
- Value
- $4.61/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 707 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.00 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1060 or equivalent, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 34 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 43 percent, about 6 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $5.00, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
On value it sits in the top 34 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Moss VR ($9.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats BONELAB ($39.99, scores 37).
More about Red Matter 2
84 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 2 of the 349 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
61% start to 34% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 16:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Having played the first game, I wasn't anticipating the second game to be so extensive. There is a bit of puzzles, a bit of exploration, and a bit of shooting. I loved the story and the environments. I wasn't expecting the travel via spaceship and train...so I enjoyed it very much! A definite improvement on the mechanics and locomotion! EDIT: Just finished the game. It gets even better the further in you go! That...
2 more reviews
I loved the game. The immersiveness and sense of space, the puzzle solving, the vibe, everything. Except for having to sneak by the automated defense turrets. And it doesn't save after you get by one, you have to get by a gauntlet of them. And then, after a cool out-of-body experience where they give you this cool new laser gun, the laser gun doesn't destroy turrets. You have to sneak past them *again*. Laser...
Worthy Successor of the first game. Still very atmospheric and still looks great (And I feel like its less creepy than the first one which is a good thing for me). I would say its an escaperoom-like puzzle-game with some shooting elements (not sure if they were needed but they were okay). The puzzles are more on the easy side though. Story is interesting with good voice acting. Took me about 6h to beat the whole...
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Cite this score
Red Matter 2 scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2081470/red-matter-2Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.