Like most PlayStation first-party games, God of War Ragnarök requires a PSN account. A fact that we've known about since the State of Play earlier this year, alongside a short blog post that mentions this in italics at the bottom of the page.

The highly-anticipated sequel, like other recent Sony-published PC games, comes with a mandatory and contentious PlayStation Network login.

God of War Ragnarok mod byasses PSN account requirement on PC, allowing players to enjoy the game without logging into PlayStation Network.

Ragnarök is the sequel to God of War (2018) and was initially released exclusively on the PlayStation. The game itself is a great sequel, with intense combat and a heart-wrenching story, which is why fans were begging for a PC port for ages.

God of War Ragnarok hasn't had the biggest launch turnout on Steam, landing somewhere towards the middle in Sony's ever-growing catalogue of PS games on PC.

Although the creator, Nexus mods user iArtoriasUA, made the mod to strip "the PlayStation PC SDK runtime requirement for God of War Ragnarök " to avoid errors, players have used it to circumvent Sony's PSN policy. The installation is fairly easy; download the mod from Nexus, copy it into the game's folder, and play.

The PC version of God of War Ragnarök releases on Thursday 19th September at 4pm (BST) / 11am (ET). It is available to download from Steam and the Epic Games Store, but you must link a PlayStation Network Account in order to play it. In other timezones, the God of War Ragnarök PC release date and time is:

God of War Ragnarok's PC port has been tainted by a PSN account requirement, at least according to the backlash it's getting on Steam.

God Of War Ragnarök was one of 2022's hit games on PS5 and PS4, and by all accounts it looks great and plays well on PC, where it arrived via Valve’s storefront earlier this week. The Steam user review score is less than stellar,

God of War Ragnarök is being review bombed on Steam as users once again protest Sony's controversial requirement for PC users to link to a PSN account. At the time of writing, God of War Ragnarök sits on a "mixed" user score amalgamated from almost 5000 player reviews.

God of War Ragnarök has a ‘mixed’ user review rating on Steam following its PC launch, with most of the complaints revolving around Sony’s controversial PlayStation Network Account requirement. Sony had made it clear on the God of War Ragnarök Steam page that a PlayStation Network account would be required to play Sony Santa Monica’s purely single-player adventure,