Resident Evil Requiem appears to be like like a smash hit for Capcom, with record-breaking Steam concurrent participant numbers suggesting huge gross sales. Nevertheless it’s additionally successful on Metacritic, the place it has the joint highest person rating of all time.
Requiem has a person rating of 9.5 on Metacritic, which is the identical rating final 12 months’s breakout hit, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, has. It surged previous Metal Gear Solid, The Witcher 3, and Disney Cory in the House’s 9.3 (should you did a double-take at Disney Cory in the House being up there, nicely… there’s an entire factor about it being on this checklist that’s nicely price trying out). Additionally on 9.3, maybe extra deservedly, are the authentic Silent Hill 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3.
Web site person evaluate scores may be manipulated, in fact (Disney Cory in the House reveals that!), and not simply with video games both (Breaking Unhealthy vs. Game of Thrones is a factor). However clearly followers are loving Resident Evil Requiem, which additionally has an ‘Overwhelmingly Constructive’ person evaluate ranking on Steam. IGN’s personal Resident Evil Requiem evaluate returned a 9/10. We mentioned: “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.”
Resident Evil Requiem’s general Metascore is 88, which isn’t sufficient to make Metacritic’s high 250 video games of all time. The best-rated Resident Evil online game is the authentic Resident Evil 4, which has a 96 Metascore. Nonetheless, Resident Evil Requiem is the second highest-rated online game of 2026, behind solely Pokemon Pokopia for now.
We’ve received loads extra on Resident Evil Requiem, together with the hunt for the resolution to its cryptic Closing Puzzle resolution, which has been complicated followers for the previous week. At the moment, one particular person does now seem to have solved the Closing Puzzle — however the thriller round the problem stays, as it is unclear precisely how they did it.
IGN’s Resident Evil: Requiem information will provide help to each step of the manner by way of RE9. Pay attention to these key ideas and methods earlier than you get began, and focus on discovering these vital objects early. Plus, our complete walkthrough will ensure you do not miss a single Bobblehead or file as you attempt to survive from the Rhodes Hill Power Care Middle all the manner to Raccoon Metropolis.
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