Resident Evil Village VR might come to PC
A dataminer found clues suggesting a Steam and Oculus release has been considered.
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Back in June, Sony announced that RE-series-highlight-mashup-reelResident Evil Villagewas going to get aPSVR2 releasecomplete with 4K, eye-tracking, 3D audio, and all the other fanciness that a modern VR version brings. Much as we’d like one of thebest horror games on PCto get the same treatment on our platform of choice, given that Resident Evil 7’s VR release has yet to make the jump it seemed unlikely.
Until now. Redditor u/LitheBeep hasdatamined a hintthat Village VR might make it to PC after all. In the game’s executable they found references to PSVR followed by “OpenVR”, “OculusTouch”, “OculusVR”, and “OculusRemote”, as well as the string “autoLaunchSteamVROnButtonPress”.
They also point out that on October 28 Capcomupdated Resident Evil Village’s Steam store tagsto add one for “VR”. While store tags can be added by Steam users, publishers can also add or remove tags themselves. Doing so is an important bit of marketing as these tags determine whether a game will show up in the “more like this” section, as well as whether it will be highlighted in “recommended for you” boxes, themed sales, and so on.
However, to pour a little cold water of skepticism on the rumor fire before it gets fully burning, it’s worth noting thatCapcom also added the VR tag to Resident Evil 7in June of 2017 and we’re still waiting for that to amount to anything. What’s more, looking over its history on SteamDB shows the VR tag was first added to Village inMay of 2021before beingremovedand thenadded againmultiple times alongside various other tags of dubious relevance like “hentai” and “dating sim”. Presumably there’s logic behind this constant tinkering with tags—maybe the mysterious Steam algorithm likes it? A lot of what goes on behind the scenes with Steam’s store pages is as much superstition as anything.
Until an official announcement is made we’ll have to make do with themod that adds VR support to Resident Evil Village. It’s the work of modder Praydog, and it also works with Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, and Resident Evil 7. Which is nice.
The recently released Resident Evil Village DLC Winter’s Expansion included a third-person camera, extra characters for the Mercenaries mode, and a story scenario in which you play Ethan’s daughter Rose. We found it to be asatisfactory but sparse addition.
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