RESIDENT EVIL
Requiem

Resident Evil Requiem is the rarest kind of sequel: one that honours three decades of history while feeling genuinely new. Capcom's ninth mainline entry splices the over-the-shoulder dread of the modern remakes onto the fixed-tension survival horror of the originals, and the seam barely shows. It is the best-reviewed mainline Resident Evil since RE4 — and it has earned every word.

You play Grace Ashcroft, an FBI technical analyst dragged back to the ruins of Raccoon City to investigate a fresh outbreak in the Wrenwood district. Grace is no super-soldier; she's brittle, frightened and brilliant, and the early hours lean hard into that vulnerability. Then the game pulls its masterstroke — switching, at key moments, to a familiar returning hero whose confident, combat-forward chapters play like a different game entirely. Requiem is two survival-horror philosophies in one box, and it lets each breathe.

The blood collector changes everything

Grace's signature tool is the blood collector, a device that harvests "microsamples" of infected blood from the environment and downed enemies, which you then refine into ammo, healing and upgrades. It reframes every encounter as a risk-reward equation: do you push deeper into a nest of zombies to bleed them dry, or back off and stay safe but starved? It's the best new survival-horror mechanic in years, and the whole economy — credits, the supply box, weapon upgrades, analysis-unlocked recipes — orbits it intelligently.

The journey is a greatest-hits tour that never feels like fan service for its own sake: the flooded care center, a return to the R.P.D., the descent into Umbrella's ARK facility, a white-knuckle highway set piece, and a final, genuinely affecting choice about a girl named Elpis. New horrors — the Licker β2, the lumbering Chunks, the singing horrors of the care center — sit comfortably beside a Super Tyrant that had us grinning ear to ear.

So why not a 10?

A handful of pacing wobbles keep it from perfection. The mid-game sags slightly as the two playstyles trade off, a couple of the returning-hero sections feel like they belong to a louder, action-ier game, and the inventory-management old guard may find the modern conveniences a touch too generous on Standard. These are quibbles against a near-flawless whole.

For trophy hunters, do not be fooled by the "easy platinum" reputation floating around. The list is not complex, but it is demanding: a full clear on the brutal Insanity difficulty, a complete run with no herbs or med injectors, a run where Grace never touches the blood collector, and a sub-four-hour speedrun. Difficulty trophies stack and there is no chapter select, so plan your runs — and keep manual saves. Realistically it is two to three playthroughs, and buying infinite ammo takes the fear out of Insanity. Our full guide below breaks down all 50 trophies, the smartest stacking order, and every collectible.