A talented Witcher fan has developed a VR experience based on the original game that lets the player explore the Witcher school of Kaer Morhen. The franchise’s recent boom in popularity has led to renewed interest in mods for The Witcher games, as well as standalone works inspired by them.

In the world of The Witcher, Kaer Morhen is the ancient headquarters of the School of the Wolf and the only true home for Geralt of Rivia. CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher began in the iconic fortress, and The Witcher 3’s penultimate battle took place there. It even became a stage in SoulCalibur 6. While the first season of Netflix’s The Witcher doesn’t show Kaer Morhen, it is still mentioned by Henry Cavill’s Geralt. The old keep has a lot of significant history behind it, and now VR owners can appreciate it from a new perspective.

A Nexus Mods user by the name of Patryk Loan has created a VR experience entitled The Witcher Virtual Reality. It is described as a “revision” of CDPR’s first Witcher game using Unreal Engine 4. At present, the prototype consists of a recreated Kaer Morhen that players can explore while also gazing at the Blue Mountains and scaring away birds. It currently supports Oculus, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality, and you can watch the trailer for the project below.

Since The Witcher Virtual Reality isn’t actually a mod for The Witcher, Loan has to rebuild the maps in Unreal 4 himself. He plans to increase the scope and scale of the game with later updates, which will include other locations. He is also working on “a fully playable plot,” which may serve as a prologue to the original game or a story of his own. Loan says that “we will have a lot of time to discuss all this,” implying that he’s looking for feedback as he goes on with development.

Assuming you own a VR headset of some kind, this is an interesting way to experience one of the most important places in The Witcher. There’s not much to do there at the moment, sure, but Loan’s current work and future plans for the game seem promising. For those who don’t have access to VR, we’ll just have to wait and see if Kaer Morhen appears in The Witcher season 2.

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Source: Nexus Mods