Red Matter

Runs smoothly standalone on the Steam Frame without stuttering or glitches. A few issues with running it streamed from Bazzite but that's more of an nvidia/linux/vrcompositor interaction on my PC. The puzzles are not too severe, but still give a satisfying feeling when you complete one. The story didn't end up where I thought it would. I was pleasantly surprised at the end. Might be a bit on the shorter side, but my only complaint there was that I was having a good time and would have liked more. tl;dr: Installed and ran it standalone on the Steam Frame. I enjoyed the game, and had a good time with it from start to finish.

I'd only ever buy this game on a sale in which it was less than 10 bucks at this point. I see people praise both the story and the amount of polish, but I found both utterly lacking. Polish wise there was Many times I found a bug just by existing, and not like QA tester bugs but "The devs knew this was wrong but never fixed it" type bugs. Story wise it's just, lacking, the entire plot is done to death at this point and done better by most other writers. I enjoyed the puzzles, though frequently I found the controls for engaging with said puzzles to be tedious and awkward. Dials that don't have set postions so the number displays they affect sit awkwardly misaligned. Large wheels that you have to regrab ever 3 seconds to continue rotating. Just a bunch of ♥♥♥♥ that I can't help but ask what people see in the game while I'm doing it. Performance wise it was fine, the controls haven't been meaningfully updated for quest controllers it feels as you cannot pull up the menu in game without also pulling up the steam overlay. Fixable with control modifications though so that's "okay." I hesitate to recommend it at the retail price they offer it mostly, if you can get it Really Cheap …

very laggy in 2026, just get one from the meta store if you are playing on quest to avoid the headache. tried Virtual desktop, steam vr, airlink

very good 7/10

Short, fun, entertaining. Not very difficult. Looking forward to RM2. Due to how short it was, it felt more like a tech demo than an actual full game.

It's easy to see how long it takes people to beat it; decide what that's worth to you and grab it. The game is eerie without being scary and has essentially zero jumps scares and no combat. Even playing in 2026, eight years after release, it's a very cool experience. It delivers on the atmosphere and the locations feel quite convincing. While the puzzles are often fairly simple, the interactions have weight and a good degree of realism. The ending may be considered slightly abrupt without quite enough exposition, but it doesn't hurt the experience. If I have one complaint, it's the tendency for some physics objects to go flying. Chairs are slightly annoying in that respect, but I almost completely lost a circuit board for that reason. That's it though, the game is generally rock solid in my experience.