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Red Matter is a story-driven VR puzzle adventure game set during a dystopian Sci-Fi Cold War. Take on the role of Agent Epsilon, an astronaut of the Atlantic Union dispatched to an abandoned Volgravian base on Rhea, one of Saturn’s moons. Your mission: to investigate a shady top secret research project. Solve puzzles in a beautiful, high-detail brutalist environment which only becomes more and more surreal as the story progresses. Use an array of hi-tech tools to decipher hidden messages and mechanisms and uncover ever deeper and darker secrets of the facility. But beware of what you may find… Once you discover the truth, will you be able to stomach it?
Steam User 10
Experienced on the Meta Quest 2
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Quite simply, this is one of the best VR puzzle adventure games. I would put it just a notch below the Lone Echo Series or The Room VR: A Dark Matter. Red Matter is solid all around. There are really no weakpoints to the experience. It's got top notch production values, along with really good gameplay.
The visuals are great, even for a 2018 VR game. In fact, sadly, it looks better than the vast majority of VR games released in 2023. The sound mix is good, especially the amazing musical soundtrack. It even has a narrator voiceover that's solidly done. The story is surprisingly good, if a bit on the mysterious side, so you do have to pay close attention to all the details like notes and stuff. The atmosphere is excellent as well as you really are immersed in this fictional dystopian sci-fi soviet era cold war style space mystery.
Game is running on the Unreal Engine 4. You do have full locomotion (really more like a horizontal jet pack) or teleportation (please use the jump option for teleport so that it feels like space jumps). You have smooth or snap turning available. You can play standing or comfortably seated, plus you have magnet hands available in the options. There are comfort options as well.
The puzzles do start out pretty easy, but later on in the game, they do get pretty challenging. Maybe the puzzles aren't challenging enough for puzzle pros, but for anyone else, I think you'll find them challenging enough. You really do have to pay attention to your surrounding to solve them and maybe play around a little bit. However, the answers are all there. It could have used a hint system, but they are solvable (I only needed to cheat on one of them by looking at a YT video).
Rate 8/10.
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Steam User 1
A solid VR game, with some perfectly set puzzles - which are challenging but never impossible.
Great atmosphere and story to boot.
Minor criticism is that the ending had some pretty hammy voice acting.
Valve Index, 4080 rtx, i5 36000k - plays well at 120hz 130% SS.
8/10 would pass a loyalty test again
Steam User 1
Decent story, enjoyable VR experience, very short so recommend purchasing when on sale.
Steam User 2
Looks great, but story and puzzles feel secondary to the environment. Not necessarily bad, just keep this in mind.
Steam User 2
I played through this all in one go.
Steam User 2
A very good VR game! Story is a bit short, but graphics and puzzles are very well made. And most importantly, you can grab and interact with a lot of objects in a intuitive way. It is so satisfying that doors keep closed when you swing them shut!
Only the movement is a little different to other games I've played, but I got used to it.
Steam User 1
I'll be honest, I was expecting more out of this game, either in terms of clever puzzles or an interesting story. It was a fun time, and I enjoyed setting, the atmosphere, and the gameplay. Don't get me wrong, the puzzles are still quite well-executed; it's just that I felt like more could be done with them.
The story wasn't terribly compelling, and the environmental storytelling did very little to flesh out the background characters and world building. The levels themselves were fairly drab and plain, with nothing that stood out particularly.
While the controls could get fiddly at times, they were on the whole pretty decent. Music was forgettable.
I know it sounds like I didn't enjoy this game, but I did. It's just one of those games you won't remember a couple months after you played it. But if you own a VR headset, Red Matter should definitely be on your list of titles to try.