Half-Life: Alyx has received a new ‘No VR’ mode, allowing players without a virtual reality headset to play through the entire game’s campaign on a flatscreen.<\/p>\n
Originally released in 2019, Half-Life: Alyx<\/a> was a VR exclusive developed by Valve<\/a> to promote its efforts in the virtual reality space, as well as its innovation with the SteamVR platform.<\/p>\n However, many Half-Life fans were disappointed that the first game in the series since 2007 was exclusive to a platform that many people didn’t own.<\/p>\n While VR has become more popular nowadays, in 2019 it was still a small but growing platform, which is why fans not interested or unable to play in VR were upset at not being able to play the game in flatscreen mode.<\/p>\n Now, it seems players can enjoy Half-Life: Alyx as a traditional experience, with the No VR mod getting a new reveal.<\/p>\n Although flatscreen mods for Half-Life: Alyx have been available for quite some time, this mod adds new types of interactions to the game, which do a much more solid job at emulating the VR experience without using virtual reality itself.<\/p>\n These interactions work similarly to games like SOMA or Amnesia, where you need to aim at an interactable object and hold down a button. Moving your cursor will then allow you to interact with that object in a way similar to how you would if you were playing in VR.<\/p>\n The mod is currently still in testing, and at the moment only includes Half-Life: Alyx’s first chapter. A public release is expected soon.<\/p>\n Read More: <\/strong>Ranking the 13 Best PC Games Of All Time<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Half-Life: Alyx is meant to be played in VR, but that doesn’t make this mod a bad idea<\/p>\n