How many copies has Red Matter sold?

indielist estimates Red Matter has sold between 53,568 and 124,992 units (median 89,280), derived from its 992 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Red Matter?

Red Matter was developed by Vertical Robot and published by Vertical Robot.

Who published Red Matter?

Red Matter was published by Vertical Robot, developed by Vertical Robot. See Vertical Robot's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Red Matter released?

Red Matter was released in 2018.

How many reviews does Red Matter have on Steam?

Red Matter has 992 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.

Is Red Matter worth playing?

Steam players rate Red Matter 90% positive across 992 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Red Matter

Nov 10, 2018 Adventure $24.99

Developer Vertical Robot Publisher Vertical Robot

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game Red Matter launched in 2018 from developer and publisher Vertical Robot. It has 986 Steam reviews marked mixed, and its initial price was $24.99; the engine is not listed.

Red Matter is a 2018 Adventure game developed by Vertical Robot and published by Vertical Robot. On Steam it has gathered 992 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Vertical Robot with publisher Vertical Robot is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 54,000 to 125,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Red Matter can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

992

Positive

90%

Steam appid

966680

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

54K to 125K

units (median: 89K)

≈ $765K to $1.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

54K median 125K

+ How is this calculated?

992 reviews × NB(90) = 89,280 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$25	+5
positive_90%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	90

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Red Matter at roughly 54,000 to 125,000 copies, with a median around 89,000, derived from its 992 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

8 observed days · window low $24.99

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $24.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $24.99 on 2026-07-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Red Matter sold?: indielist estimates Red Matter has sold between 53,568 and 124,992 units (median 89,280), derived from its 992 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Red Matter?: Red Matter was developed by Vertical Robot and published by Vertical Robot.
Who published Red Matter?: Red Matter was published by Vertical Robot, developed by Vertical Robot. See Vertical Robot's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Red Matter released?: Red Matter was released in 2018.
How many reviews does Red Matter have on Steam?: Red Matter has 992 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Is Red Matter worth playing?: Steam players rate Red Matter 90% positive across 992 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Red Matter can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Vertical Robot's other releases and Vertical Robot's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Red Matter sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Red Matter page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.