Best Resident Evil Requiem mods for gameplay, visuals, arachnophobia, and more

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

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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

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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.

No HUD Effects

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Requiem‘s interface elements, like the weapon selection shortcuts and Leon’s health bar, are fairly minimalistic, but they still take up a lot of room and disrupt the vibe. No HUD Effects removes all of that and then some, including the button prompts when you can perform a melee attack as Grace or a hatchet finisher as Leon. Granted, you’ll have to remember which weapons you’ve slotted in which shortcuts, since that bit of interface is gone. Just think of it as a little survival difficulty tweak.

Combat Tweaks

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One thing Resident Evil Requiem‘s settings don’t include is a way to customize difficulty. CeeExx’s Combat Tweaks mod lets you adjust how much damage you receive and how much you deal. Settings include “nightmare,” where enemies take 0.25 the amount of damage and you take triple; “One Punch,” which keeps incoming damage the same as in the un-modded game and lets you deal 100 times more; and “Invincible,” which is pretty self-explanatory and quite useful for mopping up challenges like The Final Puzzle without getting mauled to death.

Vampire Bat Trigger

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You see a lot of Grace’s handy starter gun if you’re playing Requiem in first-person mode. It’s a nice gun, as discreet little pistols for FBI agents go. But it’s a little on the plain side. KayaGrimoire jazzed it up a bit by adding a bat-shaped hammer (the mod calls it a trigger, but it’s the hammer). It’s cute! And hey, Grace can have a bit of fun while she’s fighting for her life. As a treat. (The mod images show Grace in her Lady Dimitrescu outfit, but it works with any costume for Grace.)

Insanity Aim Assist

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Insanity difficulty is hard enough with its faster, deadlier zombies, but Capcom permanently disables aim assist in that mode as well. So you’re frantically trying to aim at fast-moving monsters, wasting ammo, dying, and so on. Sure, the mode lives up to its name, but it’s just A Bit Much sometimes. Insanity Aim Assist lets you turn aim assist back on, giving you back a little competitive advantage. It restores all the options, so you get the little assist slider back as well and can adjust just how much help you want to give yourself.

Thomas the Tank Engine (arachnophobia mod)

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There are already a handful of arachnophobia mods for Resident Evil Requiem out there. One swaps the giant mutant spider boss for a shapeless mass, which is creepy in its own way, and another drops Mr. X, the tyrant from Resident Evil 2, in its place. Good for spider haters, but less good for people who don’t like being chased by giant blue murder machines.

This one from xZombieAlix continues the long-running tradition of replacing formidable Resident Evil foes with Thomas the Tank. Look at that face! Totally not scary. He’ll still kill you, though. The mod also adds little Thomas the Tanks in place of the smaller spiders in Raccoon City.

Alyssa Ashcroft for Grace

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Maybe you didn’t want Alyssa’s adventure to end with Resident Evil Outbreak and mourned alongside Grace for her untimely demise at the start of Requiem. It’s valid; she has a nice coat that deserves to be seen more often. Anyway, Glitch’s mod swaps Grace’s model in cutscenes and third-person and first-person modes for Alyssa Ashcroft’s Requiem model, and you can choose whether she takes her stylish messenger bag along with her as an optional add-on. Yes, it’s weird seeing Alyssa watch Alyssa die a terrible death, but it’s hardly the strangest thing that’s happened in Resident Evil.

If you’re one of those folks who takes issue with Alyssa’s coat for being so long, the same mod maker has one that shortens it, and it works with the Alyssa-to-Grace swap mod.

Leon Shirtless RPD

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This mod from Hols might be the least surprising mod out there. It does what it says on the label and puts Leon in his RPD uniform pants from Resident Evil 2, without a shirt.