It has recently released Steam Workshop tools for that purpose and it might just be a matter of time before some enterprising developers figure out a way to flatten Half-Life: Alyx like a pancake. If anything, this mod is a testament to how Valve has been very generous in making its games and engines very mod-friendly. It’s definitely easier to shoot down baddies but everything else will be a chore. After all, the world, its pacing, and its interface were made to be used with two virtual hands. It’s not a perfect translation, of course, and the game is impossible to complete without cheats. modder Goutrial brought Gordon Freeman’s hands and weapons from Half-Life 2 to Alyx, allowing the game to be played outside of virtual reality. The Pancake FPS Starter Kit, a reference to what the VR elite call mere non-VR monitors, is designed more to create addons that work in both VR and non-VR games running on Valve’s Source 2 game engine, precisely the same engine that Alyx uses. Soon after we discovered that you can easily play a few non-VR games in VR, we had to give Half-Life 2 a try as well. If you are a fan of Half-Life 2 then it might be a dream for you to see and play this game in VR.
And while the mod isn’t made for that purpose, its ability to support such a use case is almost a testament to the mod’s abilities. After our post on how you can play War of Warcraft in VR, Half-Life 2 was next in the list. That, of course, hasn’t stopped people from actually doing exactly that. Right off the bat, the developer of this PFSK software warns users that it’s not intended to be used to play Half-Life: Alyx outside of a VR environment.
