Red Matter
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 moon…
Red Matter is an adventure developed by Vertical Robot, released 24 May 2018 on PlayStation VR2, PlayStation VR, Meta Quest 2 and Oculus Quest.
What Red Matter is
Red Matter is an adventure game developed by Vertical Robot and released in 2018. It is available on PlayStation VR2, PlayStation VR, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest, Oculus VR and SteamVR. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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?
How it plays
It is played from a virtual reality perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Red Matter launched on 24 May 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr.
Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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