Red Matter

This has been an interesting little VR experience so far. I’m really liking the story and the puzzles. The puzzles aren’t extremely challenging. They’re just enough to make you think a bit, but not so much to make you need to google the solutions.
Graphics and performance are excellent. Texture work is impeccable. It seems well optimized, and it’s always refreshing to have a game work the way it is supposed to. It is crazy to me that smaller dev teams can manage to push out a game that just runs well, yet AAA devs struggle with that concept.
Whereas I’m really enjoying what I have played so far, from what I hear, it’s not a particularly long game. And it makes sense. Playing it, I can just feel that the gameplay wouldn’t translate well to some 10 hour game or something. Having said that, I bought it on sale and probably wouldn’t purchase this for for its full price of $25. But for $12.50 I think it’s well worth it!

It's a very good VR game but not as good as you'd expect it to be after all the feedback I read.
The achievements are easy to get and you can get them all in the first playthrough if you're paying attention.
I'd say that the game is a tad creepy at times. The controls feel a bit wonky, but not to the point that it annoys you. It's fine, but could be better.
The puzzles are okay too.
I liked the game, but it won't go to the "one of the best games I played" shelf.

Good game with balanced, in terms of difficulty, puzzles. You probably will be able to manage all or almost all of them by yourself without the need to google solutions. Graphics is descent, story - interesting enough.
The only negative part - motion is too slow, you are walking like a turtle, and flying is just slightly better. Also game physics is very clunky.

Every VR gamer knows Red Matter (I think), so I probably don't need to explain what it is. It's a simplified adventure game that has slick production values at the expense of being very, very short. If you didn't know, now you know.

I've known about this game for years and years, but only yesterday did I step foot on Mars. No, I had always thought it took place on Mars but it's really a moon of Saturn. I first saw Red Matter in action when Roger Maddy posted a short video.

Getting in there for myself made for an enjoyable couple hours. I like short games; no worries there. I also like casual games, so the linearity of the adventuring, and simplicity of the puzzling, were also fine. I have the Unreal Engine remakes of Myst & Riven for when I'm ready to play a fully featured puzzle-adventure game that can be viewed in virtual reality.

its pretty short so dont get it if its not on sale. probably like 5 hr long max if you take your time

Very well made.
An amazing achievement for a two member dev team.
Puzzles are not difficult, but are engaging.
Worked well on my HP Reverb G2 after switching to SteamVR.

Red Matter is an OK game.
For the asking price of 25 bucks, I don't believe it is worth it. Buy on sale.
I took my time going through the game and only got 3.6h out of it, and I even got all the achievements.
That being said, let's shift the analysis from quantity to quality. Was that 3.6h good? I would say "yes with some caveats".
The story is pretty good. It could have done with some more fleshing out, but it was good.
The voice acting and writing was very well done, and so was the sound design. The game play mechanics are generally good - even if I have to admit, that the control system could have been done much better.
Basically, your left hand has 4 tools attached to it, of which one is: "Show mission objective" - *Thumb Stick button*.
For the sake of brevity, this is the last I will say of that.
The other tools are: A translator, a grabber and a torch. Most of the game you are constantly having to switch between these, each time having the transition take a second or two. You press A or B to cycle through them and if you do it too fast and skip the right one, or go the wrong direction, you spend a good bit of time just getting to the right tool. It get's old REAL fast.
I'm not saying that if it was done better, that I could have probably finished the game in 2h sans achievements.
I'm not saying that. I really am not.
I am just *heavily* implying that.
Here is what I believe would have worked better:
Button A: "Action A" (Example - Translate)
Button B: "Action B" (Example - Torch)
Trigger: "Action C" (Example - Grabber)
WOOOOAAAHHHH HOLY SHIFT I FOUND THE HOLY GRAIL OF COMPUTER GAMING!! AND THAT AS A LAYMAN!!!?
THE WORLD SHAKES AND TREMBLES AT THAT MIGHT!!
Yes, that was sarcasm and no, that simplicity is nothing special, which is why the game is just "Ok" from a quality perspective.
Well, ok. Enough knit picking. The game still gets a thumbs up on the condition that you get it at least on 50% sale. 10 bucks. Tops.