Capcom’s latest horror game is still a fresh arrival, but the Resident Evil Requiem mod scene is already revved up and going. While a fair few mods fall into the standard reshaders and visual adjustments categories, there are mods covering helpful tweaks to things like the crafting system, difficulty toggles so you can customize your challenge, and one or two fun little costume changes for Grace and Leon.
All Resident Evil Requiem mods require the REFramework mod to work, an extension that rewrites the game’s scripting so it accommodates changes. And like other Resident Evil mods, these only work on the game’s Steam version.
FOV Controls
A few FOV adjustment mods are circulating for Resident Evil Requiem, but this one from Reynbow is our favorite. It gives you complete control over Requiem‘s field of vision, as you’d hope from an FOV mod. But it also includes separate settings for when you’re aiming-down-sites and the option to adjust transition speed while aiming. And if you’re not happy with how the gameplay FOV looks during cutscenes, the mod lets you set up a toggle so you can turn it off once a scene starts to play. It’s an excellent little tool all around.
Better Crafting
Requiem is a survival game, so you don’t really expect to get an entire arsenal’s worth of ammunition when you smash some metal and blood together. That scarcity is balanced well on lower difficulty modes, but if you give Insanity difficulty a go, you start running out of necessities pretty quickly. You can spend challenge points to unlock infinite ammo and other helpful cheats, but if you don’t want to break the game entirely, Better Crafting from Nicola is the mod for you. It increases how much of a given material you get when you craft it, like getting 20 handgun ammo instead of eight as Grace. There’s also a toggle for Grace to adjust it down a bit, so you keep the tension of resource management while still having room to experiment with things like crafting more hemolytic injectors and taking a stealthier approach.
Reshader mod
We called these kinds of mods “standard” earlier, but that doesn’t make them any less useful. This one in particular stands out for how it alters Requiem‘s visuals without changing too much. As the name “reshader to improve sharpness and contrast” suggests, it increases the sharpness and bumps up the contrast, so everything looks crisp and colors stands out even more. But, unlike some reshaders that make Requiem‘s colors more “realistic,” this one just brings out the strengths of the natural hues.
If you do want something more dramatic, though, Rotten Memories is an excellent choice. It adds an ominous dark tone to everything and makes Requiem even grittier-looking than it already is.
