Resident Evil Requiem consists of quite a few Easter eggs and unlockable extras, however none seemingly as advanced as ‘The Final Puzzle.’
Warning! Resident Evil Requiem puzzle spoilers observe:
As with different current Resident Evil video games, Requiem consists of a record of challenges which add completion factors to your playthrough rating. At the backside of the record is the appropriately-named ‘The Final Puzzle’ — which is proving to be one thing of a headscratcher.
IGN has a work-in-progress information to The Final Puzzle the place important progress has been made by means of the problem’s convoluted early levels, which really feel extra advanced than something seen in every other Resident Evil recreation to date — and, seemingly, with nonetheless a way left to go.
Precisely what the closing consequence or reward for the problem could be stays unknown — however as the recreation continues its launch round the world, the hunt for solutions right here will undoubtedly grow to be a main level of neighborhood focus.
The sport’s personal description for the problem affords solely the vaguest of hints, to “Let the candy pair hear the voice.” The mechanics of the puzzle, or at the very least its first half, seem to rely on gamers selecting up or analyzing a number of objects all through the recreation to decide fragments of a code.
Requiem’s path of clues depends on gamers selecting up a particular severed hand which, if obtained, will also be scanned later on to present a hidden RNA code in a blood pattern evaluation machine. Different gadgets additionally disguise their very own codes, offering (with a bit extra puzzling work) a model of that RNA sequence that may be plugged into a protected that options buttons labelled with a Star, Solar and Moon.
After that… nicely, it is right here the path has gone chilly, although probably not for lengthy. We’ll be retaining a watch on additional progress made all through the subsequent few days, as gamers uncover additional steps. For now, nonetheless, it is simply enjoyable to see that the recreation hides this type of puzzle.
For a much more granular take a look at every step to-date, IGN’s work-in-progress information to The Final Puzzle is true right here. We have additionally logged how lengthy Resident Evil Requiem takes to beat, and tracked Resident Evil Requiem’s international launch occasions.
“Like the results of an experiment carried out in an underground Umbrella Company lab, Resident Evil Requiem efficiently splices two separate strains of survival horror collectively into the one extremely infectious new mutation,” IGN wrote in our full Resident Evil Requiem evaluate, which returned a 9/10 rating.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s Information Editor. You possibly can attain Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or discover him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social