This brand-new mod brings complete VR to timeless zombie survival video game 7 Days To Die
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Flatscreen modders for virtual reality must be liked. To this day, they tirelessly work in their spare time for little to no financial reward to keep PC VR alive and well by creating excellent VR conversions of a couple of video gaming’s all-time greats. Except, perhaps, for the occasional Patreon subscription.
Necro and Kaaliba, two talented modders, are preparing to release a new flatscreen to VR mod for the popular zombie survival game 7 Days to Die (they don’t have a Patreon just yet, but they will soon). For today’s VR Corner, they sent me an early build of their mod, and you can watch me put it through its paces in the video gamer up there (or on YouTube).
Those unfamiliar with 7 Days to Die need only know that it is a challenging survival game with a zombie twist. 7 Days to Die has been around for almost a decade, making it a genre classic known for its brutality and its escalating difficulty as the game progresses.
The mod’s controls, while entirely functional, are immensely made difficult and take a long time to learn, which is fitting given the intense nature of the gameplay. This will create a significant barrier to entry for those unfamiliar with the game or who are just getting started with virtual reality and don’t know their way around the controllers, but I can attest from personal experience that once you do, you’ll find that they’re beautifully implemented.
7 Days to Die’s aesthetics aren’t as impressive by modern standards because of the game’s age. However, they look fantastic in virtual reality, and the basic settings didn’t seem to cause undue strain on my beefy gaming PC (Intel i9, RTX 3080 Ti) outside of some occasional appear on far-off trees and items. As you can see in my gameplay video, the mod ran smoothly for the most part, slowing down slightly in areas with lots of zombies but not enough to ruin the experience.
Despite the first frustrations I experienced when learning the controls, this mod is quite fun. I became tired of survival games that rely heavily on event items in order to create things a very long time ago; however, VR breathes new life into the genre, and the gameplay is undeniably more engaging when it feels as like you are actually living in the virtual world. So much so that, having learned the basics of survival and being confident in my ability to apply them, I can’t wait to go back and see how long I can last.
You may expect to see the free 7D2D VR mod created by Necro and Kaaliba released to the public sometime in the next few of weeks. You can follow the mod’s development on the Flatscreen to VR Modding Discord to learn about its progress and be notified of its release.
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