If there’s one thing VR excels in, it’s the horror game genre. Traditional flat horror games can be scary, sure, but there’s always a safety blanket there. Because you’re watching the action play out on a screen in front of you a slight turn of your head will break the illusion. Suddenly you’re back in your room, safe from whatever is lurking inside your monitor.
The same cannot be said for VR however. Turn your head in a VR horror game and there’ll be no blanket for you, only the possibility of more nightmares come to life, charging at you from out of the shadows…
Which leads me to this week’s epsiode of Ian’s VR Corner, in which I play a flatscreen to VR mod for perhaps one of the scariest games ever made, Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Check it out in the video below!
You’ll Need Nerves (And A Stomach) Of STEEL To Play Sclerosis VR! AMNESIA VR MOD! – Ian’s VR Corner Watch on YouTube
Made by a group of modders named CreaTeam, Sclerosis: An Amnesia VR Remake released earlier this week after a lengthy three year development process.
The reason that this mod has taken much longer to develop than the majority of the other flatscreen to VR mods that I’ve featured on VR Corner is down to one impressive fact. Sclerosis is actually a 1:1 recreation of Amnesia, made in the Unity Engine. This has allowed CreaTeam to completely adapt the game to VR and give the player full motion controls so they can feel extra immersed in Frictional’s frightening world.