Red Matter 2
Released Aug 2022
Enter an extraordinarily convincing sci-fi world in this story-driven VR puzzle adventure. Explore off-world facilities, operate tactile tools, solve environmental puzzles, and unravel a reality-bending Cold War mystery.
92% positive · 706 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to buy
Steam $29.99
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Evaluation
Red Matter 2 launched on August 18, 2022 as a complete, self-contained VR puzzle-adventure game. Following launch, the developer shipped a handful of patches through September 2023: early bug fixes in the weeks after launch, a language and subtitle update in October 2022, and a visual enhancement patch with 4K remastered textures and achievement support in September 2023. The store description presents the game as a finished narrative experience with no mention of additional content, season passes, DLC, or expansions. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no developer announcements of future content, and no roadmap suggesting more is coming. The last developer communication was the September 11, 2023 patch, and the studio has been silent since then — consistent with a game that has reached its final supported state. Red Matter 2 shipped as a complete product and shows every indication of remaining one.
Evidence
No DLC listings of any kind exist for this game.
Final known patch added 4K remastered textures, improved lighting and bloom, and achievements. No content additions or future plans mentioned.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Vertical Robot
Achievements
24
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
SCIENCE FICTION YOU CAN REACH OUT AND TOUCH
Red Matter 2 is a story-driven VR puzzle adventure set in a dystopian Cold War that reaches across the solar system. Become Sasha Riss and follow a distress signal from a friend believed dead—a trail leading through Volgravian facilities, buried experiments, and a mystery that threatens reality itself.
Built from the ground up for VR, Red Matter 2 turns your motion controllers into visible tools inside the world. Grab and inspect objects, scan and translate documents, repair machinery, hack security systems, and solve tactile environmental puzzles with your own hands.
EXPLORE A SOLAR SYSTEM OF SECRETS
Journey through research stations, mining complexes, orbital facilities and stark off-world landscapes, all rendered with exceptional clarity, detail and scale. Volgravia's retro-futurist technology and Cold War history are built into every environment, rewarding the instinct to slow down, look closer and take in the view.
SOLVE, INVESTIGATE AND SURVIVE
- Operate tactile tools. Scan, translate, manipulate and repair machinery.
- Read the environment. Solve physics and logic puzzles through observation and experimentation.
- Move through low gravity. Use your jetpack to cross open spaces and reach new areas.
- Uncover Volgravia's secrets. Hack terminals and examine documents to discover what happened—and what was hidden.
- Survive the unknown. Evade security and face occasional combat as the mystery closes in.
A FOCUSED, HANDCRAFTED VR ADVENTURE
Experience a complete single-player campaign built around atmosphere, discovery and forward momentum. The tension is eerie rather than horror-driven, with no jump scares. Comfort options include smooth locomotion, teleport movement and snap turning.
No previous Red Matter experience is required: the opening brings newcomers up to speed.
ENHANCED FOR PC VR
The PC version brings Red Matter 2's world into sharper focus with:
- 4K textures
- Full-detail geometry with the highest-polycount meshes always visible
- Dynamic shadows
- Indirect shadows
- Custom Valve Index controller models that appear in-game when Valve Index controllers are detected
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 19, 2026
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