Just days after PlayStation game launched on PC to a ‘mixed’ Steam user review rating , a mod has been released that bypasses the requirement entirely. Sony had made it clear on the God of War Ragnarok Steam page that a PlayStation Network account would be required to play Sony Santa Monica’s purely single-player adventure, but that failed to prevent a number of negative reviews singling out the policy. While God of War Ragnarok’s Steam user review rating is now up to ‘mostly positive,’ one modder has decided to take matters into their own hands by stripping out the PSN requirement.
iArtorias’ NoPSSDK mod, which has been downloaded 1,764 times from at the time of this article’s publication, “fully strips the PlayStation PC SDK runtime requirement for God of War Ragnarok.” But because the mod removes the PSN overlay from the game and mimicks an offline mode in the process, it's being used to bypass the PSN / Steam account linking requirement. IGN has verified the mod does indeed work.
In a post on Nexus Mods, iArtorias vowed to maintain their mod even if Sony updates God of War Ragnarok to combat it. “I will try to maintain the tool even if something changes, but hopefully nothing crucial happens,” they said. Sony will no doubt take a dim view of iArtorias’ mod, which is picking up Steam as more and more players download it.
There are also calls for a similar mod for Sony’s other recently released PC games, such as . Ghost of Tsushima requires a PSN.