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Active Matter poster
Released Sep 15, 2026

Active Matter

2026 · M · Shooter, Simulator
Gaijin Entertainment · PC · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S · Linux

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.

Real Score
72
Well liked
from 2,336 reactions
very high confidence
66% positive13% mixed21% negative
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What people are saying

Updated nightly
The Real Review

Active Matter is a solid extraction shooter from Gaijin Entertainment where you fight for loot in collapsing timelines, and most players are having a great time with it. The core gameplay loop of tackling PvE areas with great gunplay and wild physics anomalies is a huge hit, and the maps are praised. People are less thrilled with the AI and the UI, which a vocal group finds frustrating, and performance on PC can be spotty. While the PvP elements and overall value are a bit more divisive, the positive reception for the PvE mode and comparisons to games like Stalker and Tarkov show where its strengths truly lie.

Synthesized from 2,336 real reactions · very high confidenceGraphicsStoryGameplayMultiplayerValuePerformanceDifficulty

Hype vs reality

Before release, then after.

74Pre-release
→
72Audience
-2
050100

From 271 pre-release reactions, locked on Sep 15, 2026. The audience score is built only from reactions since.

BeforeWell liked271 reactions
AfterWell liked2,336 reactions

Sentiment split

Every qualifying reaction, weighted.

66%positive
  • Positive66%
  • Mixed13%
  • Negative21%

By aspect

What people scored, piece by piece.

graphics85
story81
gameplay80
multiplayer69
value61
performance54
difficulty53

How opinion moved

The Real Score, night by night.

707274Oct 8101214167272

Buzz

772 reactions over two weeks, counted by the day they were posted.

050100Oct 2: 60 reactionsOct 2Oct 3: 57 reactionsOct 4: 96 reactions4Oct 5: 68 reactionsOct 6: 52 reactions6Oct 7: 38 reactionsOct 8: 36 reactions8Oct 9: 92 reactionsOct 10: 81 reactions10Oct 11: 60 reactionsOct 12: 40 reactions12Oct 13: 39 reactionsOct 14: 29 reactions14Oct 15: 24 reactions15

Where the signal came from

Volume and platform mix only.

Steam2,171
Social Media165

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Names and topics that came up

Mentions across all reactions, with the share that were positive. Anything mentioned fewer than twice never shapes the review.

Gaijin Entertainmentdeveloper290×57%+
PvEfeature130×90%+
PvPfeature106×61%+
PvE modefeature104×93%+
UIfeature69×4%+
gunplayfeature63×81%+
Tarkovfeature43×63%+
active matterfeature43×67%+
anomaliesfeature41×90%+
mapsfeature39×87%+
AIfeature36×22%+
Stalkerfeature35×77%+
Gaijindeveloper33×61%+
extraction shooterfeature29×79%+
devsdeveloper29×69%+

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