Red Matter
Fair · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $13.74. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $4.58/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia 970 or equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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
The value story
June 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $12.49. It has been discounted 74 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Riven ($34.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Obduction ($29.99, scores 43).
3 of the 391 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
93% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 15:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
this is a great game for vr , it has a great story line so it draws you into the story making this game really enjoyable
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... First off, the "puzzles" barely count as puzzles. There are like 2 real puzzles in the entire game and the rest of them fall into 1 of 2...
very laggy in 2026, just get one from the meta store if you are playing on quest to avoid the headache. tried Virtual desktop, steam vr, airlink
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Red Matter scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/966680/red-matterReviews 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 1.
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