- Story: 164 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 110 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 74 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Bugs: 10 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Controls: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Crashes: 5 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
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What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
While not as refined as its successor, it's nonetheless a very enjoyable puzzle game with an intriguing story, great world building and great atmosphere.
Graphics: The graphics were VERY nice, I loved the environment and loved the visual feel of the game.
Good short walking simulator puzzle/exploration game, a few shortcomings but on the whole it is fun and elegant.
Red Matter's difficulty presents a decent challenge and makes good use of motion controls, while acknowledging that keeping that story flowing and keeping you moving towards the next immersive environment is really the goal here.
Though the puzzles are not challenging enough to be engaging and the story only gets captivating in the last section of the game, it is still an enjoyable experience, mainly because of the excellent atmosphere created by striking visuals and an incredible cinematic soundtrack.
Looks great with dynamic shadows and reflections and performance is really good, although occasionally there are some FPS drops, probably due to shader compilation stutter, as it's on Unreal Engine - you just need to wait for a few seconds and it's back to 90 FPS, so a bit of an issue, but one you can live with (I think they fixed it in the sequel).
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What you get
Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.
Play modes
- Single-player
Controller
- Tracked Controller Support
Store features
- Family Sharing
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Cloud
- VR Only
Platforms
- Windows
Valve device support
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