God of War III Remastered can now run natively on Windows PCs through an unofficial fan port, Polygon reported. Developer Felipe Prado announced earlier this month that the project was playable.
The port supports keyboard and mouse controls, raised frame rates and mods. Prado reported an average of 144 frames per second at 1080p and 108 frames per second at 4K, measured on an AMD RX 6700 XT graphics card.
It is not an emulator. Polygon said the project translates PS4 instructions so that a PC's processor can run them directly. The open-source release does not distribute God of War III itself, so players need their own copy of the PS4 files to use it.
The port is still in alpha. Polygon said players should expect graphical issues and bugs at this stage, and described getting the game running natively on PC as a remarkable feat that opens it to players who would otherwise never reach it.
Why the Greek trilogy never reached PC
Sony has published God of War (2018) and God of War Ragnarok on Steam but has not brought the original Greek-mythology trilogy to PC, Polygon said. The outlet reported that the fan port arrives after Sony began pulling back from PC releases of its first-party single-player games, and that fan projects are, as things stand, the only route to some of the PlayStation's most celebrated titles.
God of War III launched on the PS3 in 2010 and was ported to the PS4 five years later. It follows Kratos, the former god of war, on a quest for revenge against the gods of Olympus. Polygon reported that Sony announced Sons of Sparta, a 2D God of War prequel, and revealed a remake of the original trilogy in February, and that a further series entry, God of War Laufey, was announced a few months ago.
