Unreal Academy - a YouTuber who creates Unreal Engine 4 tutorials as well as other videos about game-related fixes and the like - has demonstrated a way to make Alyx playable using a mouse and keyboard. RELATED: How To Play Half-Life: Alyx On A Budget Knowing gamers, however, it was inevitable that a way around this would be cobbled together (one of the Valve devs literally said so himself), but it does seem like record timing in this case.
Well, that's what Valve originally intended, anyway. This comes just one week after the official release of Alyx, which requires a VR headset (either the Steam Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or Windows Mixed Reality) in order to play. Want to know how to play the VR-exclusive Half-Life: Alyx without a VR headset? You're in luck - someone out there has already figured out how.