Capcom revealed the subsequent installment within the Resident Evil franchise, Resident Evil Requiem, on Friday at Summer time Recreation Fest because the livestream’s closing announcement, following a swerve by the dev workforce earlier within the present.
Resident Evil Requiem, Capcom says, will take the franchise again to its origins: Raccoon Metropolis. The ninth mainline Resident Evil guarantees “deeply terrifying facets of psychological horror with pulse-pounding motion,” Capcom says, and “spine-chilling realism like by no means earlier than, with complicated character particulars like lifelike facial expressions, reasonable pores and skin textures, and even high-fidelity sweat droplets which might be certain to maintain gamers on the sting of their seats.”
The sport follows Grace Ashcroft (associated to Alyssa Ashcroft from Resident Evil Outbreak) as an FBI agent tasked to look into an incident at a lodge the place her mom was beforehand murdered (though Alyssa is talked about, there’s no telling if she’s Grace’s mother). Within the recreation’s trailer, Grace’s boss says it’s time for her to confront her previous earlier than the scene cuts to her sure the wrong way up in a darkish room.
From there we see corridors acquainted to the Raccoon Metropolis mansion earlier than getting ominous phrases from a shadowy determine in a chair insisting Grace is particular, a “chosen one.” We additionally see the remnants of Raccoon Metropolis with the bomb mark that took it out and a destroyed Raccoon Metropolis police division. Evidently, though the franchise will proceed its long-running story, this title appears to be very a lot a return to type for RE’s survival horror origins.
Survival horror followers have been anticipating information on the subsequent Resident Evil for some time now. The newest new mainline Resident Evil entry was 2021’s Resident Evil Village, a direct sequel to 2017’s Resident Evil 7 biohazard. Shifting additional into motion, Village emphasised fight in opposition to relentless waves of undead creatures. Since then, Capcom has launched its bold remake of Resident Evil 4.
Much like the rumor mill reviews, Requiem appears to be a reimagining of the collection with an evolution of ideas first launched within the unique Resident Evil, with extra concentrate on horror over motion. Rumors additionally counsel it can function each a conclusion to present story arcs and a contemporary place to begin for the franchise’s future, and the teaser definitely enforces this notion.
Resident Evil Requiem is slated for a Feb. 27, 2026 launch, with extra data to be revealed the nearer we get to the launch date.