Shadows Of The Hunt Available To Download Now

Gamers who’ve long sought an official PC port for Bloodborne, not to mention a remaster or remake, have been forced to resort to unofficial mods, such as fromsoftserve’s Shadows of the Hunt. This mod quite substantially strives to be a graphical overhaul or ‘remaster’ for Bloodborne, and its newest update reportedly delivers a sizable improvement.

Per DSOGaming, a new version of Shadows of the Hunt is available to download. In it, players who’ve wished to experience Bloodborne with higher resolutions and extrapolated graphics options beyond what can be achieved naturally on PS4 or PS5 may be treated to a ‘remaster’ in the only way we might ever receive one, via mods.

Bloodborne’s Unofficial PC Remaster Is Impressive

In particular, while Shadows of the Hunt improves visuals throughout the whole game, the affected regions in this latest Bloodborne graphics mod update are:

Central Yharnam
Old Yharnam
Hemwick Charnel Lane
Hunter’s Dream

Bloodborne arguably still looks terrific due to an enduring art style and a stunning Gothic atmosphere, yet mods like fromsoftserve’s are annual reminders of how untapped its visual potential is, as it’s been leashed to the PS4 version for more than a decade. Boldly, Shadows of the Hunt affords “dynamic shadows for the whole world, better indirect illumination, parallax occlusion mapping for many surfaces, higher resolution skyboxes, and much more!” If visual mods are to a PC player’s tastes, and they have made the effort to play Bloodborne on PC, it’s nearly guaranteed that mods like Shadows of the Hunt will be a godsend.

The Latest Version Is Available Now

Shadows of the Hunt’s latest version is now available, with both DSOGaming and fromsoftserve providing the link to Nexus Mods to claim it. Plus, if Bloodborne enthusiasts have been traveling down the path of extensive mods anyway, it’d be a no-brainer to try Shadows of the Hunt and experience for themselves what visual upgrades are made game-wide.

Playing Bloodborne on PC is already a bit more of a hassle than simply slotting a physical disc into the PS4’s disc tray. That said, the benefits of doing so will be transparent to anyone who prefers to have unlocked avenues of exploring visual and performance boosts that are only achievable with PC gaming. As DSOGaming states, players must first “run Bloodborne on PC via the shadPS4 emulator.” Then, players can “enable [Shadows of the Hunt] to remaster it.”

Either way, Bloodborne has a ton of fascinating mods that are sure to impress PC players, and fromsoftserve’s mods aren’t exclusive to Bloodborne. As their name suggests, fromsoftserve’s mods stretch across FromSoftware’s catalog of games, including ones for Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 3, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon.