There are some issues in life that I love however cannot declare to correctly perceive. These embrace the literary works of James Joyce, the vegan life-style, and individuals who wish to play extremely scary video games in VR. I like horror video games, however there is a restrict on my tolerance, and Amnesia: The Darkish Descent landed proper on that restrict when it slithered out of Frictional Video games’ culvert a terrifying 13 years in the past. Therefore, the mere thought of enjoying that recreation in VR makes me shudder.
However in case you are the sort of one who likes to placed on white VR goggles and later take off brown pants, let me introduce you to Sclerosis: an Amnesia VR remake. To be clear, this isn’t an official remake of Frictional’s landmark horror. However additionally it is a bit greater than only a mod. Sclerosis’ ModDB web page describes it as a “1:1 recreation of the complete recreation in Unity engine, making VR potential.”
This overhaul included “fully redesigned controls” that facilitate VR controllers, enabling you to bodily open doorways and pull levers together with your digital arms. It has been years since I performed the unique Amnesia, however I do know that it had extremely tactile controls to start with, so I can completely see this factor working in VR.
Alongside the VR implementation, Sclerosis additionally provides a “protected mode” that removes the aggressive monsters from the sport so you possibly can benefit from the environment with out shedding your wits to the horrors that prowl fortress Brennenburg. That is one thing that Frictional launched in later video games like SOMA, however by no means added to the unique Amnesia, in order that’s a welcome inclusion. It provides a PSX mode too, simply in case you wish to play the sport such as you’ve smeared Vaseline throughout your display screen.
All collectively, it feels like a fairly spectacular overhaul. Disgrace the devs could not get it prepared for Hallowe’en, nevertheless it’s rocketing up the ModDB rankings nonetheless, presently ranked 512 out of 55,000 mods. You’ll be able to obtain it right here. And if you cannot or will not play horror video games in VR, it is best to take a look at this yr’s new Amnesia recreation: The Bunker, which as Ted so eloquently defined in his overview, is comfortably among the best video games of 2023.
