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Just like a lot of early 3D PC games weren't possible to play without a graphics accelerator card (GPU for you younglings) which not a lot of people had, these new VR games are not possible to play without VR hardware.

Doesn't mean early 3D PC games weren't PC games, and it doesn't mean that contemporary VR games aren't also PC games.

I played it fine on my PC. But I have a VR headset for my PC. I'm not sure that makes it not a PC game.

In the 90s you might have needed to buy a graphics card or sound card to play a game, but it was still a PC game.

All games ended up needing a GPU and a soundcard - in fact they became so necessary that all CPUs and motherboards today come with a GPU and a soundcard respectively. While VR headsets were a gimmick of the moment.

(Yes I know some CPUs come with no GPU but that's because you will buy a discrete GPU which only furthers my point)

If I released a game on PC that required a peripheral, like a racing wheel, does that make it not a PC game?

> all CPUs [...] today come with a GPU

This is not even remotely true.

Aside from the obvious meaning of your comment - there is a mod which makes Alyx playable without VR: https://github.com/bfeber/HLA-NoVR

I think it's VR only.

It's VR only.

vr only