Resident Evil Requiem (2026) hasn’t been out for greater than every week, and there’s already a fundamental PC VR mod ready within the wings.
Whereas Capcom could have “no plans” for VR assist, VR modder ‘Praydog’ has launched a Resident Evil Requiem mod that allows you to play your entire recreation with a PC VR headset— albeit with a number of caveats.
Whereas Praydog’s REFramework helps movement controllers throughout a bunch of Resident Evil video games, the VR mod for Requiem continues to be a gamepad-only expertise for now. Notably, early gamers, comparable to YouTuber ‘Beardo Benjo‘, liken it to a “first cross.”
Praydog has developed their mod suite to work with all video games operating on the RE Engine, so it’s seemingly the Requiem mod will see a good quantity of tweaking within the coming days. It’s nonetheless most likely finest to attend for those who plan on enjoying it from begin to end in VR although.
It’s fairly fundamental for now, basically solely permitting you to play in first-person VR with out far more VR-native concerns made, together with menus, movement controls, or immersive affordances for cutscenes. Offered Praydog smooths out these points, like they did with Resident Evil Village (2021) and Resident Evil 7 (2017), it stands to develop into probably the most immersive RE recreation thus far.
Within the meantime, you’ll be able to nab the mod totally free over on Praydog’s RE Framework GitHub and following together with all the nightly updates too. Moreover, you’ll be able to assist Praydog by way of their Patreon web page.
Try the VR mod in motion, courtesy Beardo Benjo:
