You’re an operative stuck in a time loop, always brought back from the dead to the same point.
Choose your loadout and enter quantum unstable zones rich with active matter — a substance capable of warping and ripping the very fabric of space and time.
Fight against rivals from other timelines, survive physics-breaking anomalies and try to stay alive. Harvest active matter, gather loot and extract to a safe place before the whole zone ceases to exist with everything inside it.
Active Matter is not trying to reinvent the extraction-shooter genre. Perhaps it does not need to. Instead, it takes a familiar formula and gives it a personality of its own, using its setting, narrative framework, and supernatural elements to stand apart in an increasingly crowded field. It is a game that understands where its strengths lie, particularly...
Active Matter is an incredibly ambitious extraction shooter that feels a bit different from the others out there. With its mind-bending atmosphere and anomaly-driven gameplay, it is a consistently tense rollercoaster. I found this to be one of the more punishing shooters I’ve ever played, but the setting and exploration kept drawing me in for more.
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I knew it's an extraction shooter, so I wasn't very enthusiastic about it. I was totally shocked when Active Matter turned out to be one of most fun games I played last months. I had such fun playing both PvE and PvP modes with my friends!
Active Matter finds a good position within an increasingly competitive genre, even arriving in a very discreet way. It doesn't reinvent the extraction shooter, but it has enough personality, atmosphere, and systems to justify its existence and the interest of those who seek it out.
Active Matter proves to be a solid, highly atmospheric take on the extraction shooter genre. Blending quantum-anomaly sci-fi with demanding, tactical gunplay, it delivers genuine tension and memorable firefights—perfect for those seeking a cooperative experience with real character. However, some performance hiccups on Series X (especially during intense...
