Probably the most anticipated video games of the 12 months is ready to launch in only a few days, and critiques means that it will likely be a stellar title.
Resident Evil Requiem, the newest entry within the iconic Resident Evil sequence, releases on February 27, 2026, for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC. Evaluations have begun pouring in for the sport, and it looks like Capcom has one other hit entry on their fingers. On OpenCritic, the sport has debuted to a mean rating of 88, with 96% of critics recommending the sport.
Eurogamer’s Matt Walles, who scored the sport an ideal 5/5, praised the sport as “each a masterful little bit of suffocating horror and a nostalgic, fan-thrilling victory lap for the legendary sequence.” IGN’s Tristan Ogilvie gave the sport a 9/10 and likewise praised it for mixing “two separate strains of survival horror collectively into the one extremely infectious new mutation.”
On our sister website, ComingSoon’s Tyler Treese additionally put the sport within the pantheon as top-of-the-line recreation’s within the franchise in his 9.5/10 overview: “Leon’s newest journey options among the coolest moments within the franchise, some terrific scares with Grace’s sections, and an fascinating story that opens up many thrilling prospects for the franchise going ahead. Resident Evil has by no means been so thrilling.”
Our personal Shaan Joshi gave the sport a 9/10 and echoed a lot of the reward. “It’s an countless buffet of nail-biting, pulse-pounding motion, and, I might argue, survival horror at its best,” Joshi wrote. GiantBomb’s Dan Ryckert additionally praised the sport in his 4.5 out of 5 overview, calling the sport “a superb end result of every thing Capcom has realized throughout 30 years of constructing this franchise, and it serves as a tantalizing glimpse of what its future could maintain.”
Resident Evil Requiem is the ninth mainline Resident Evil recreation, and the primary to function Leon S. Kennedy since 2012’s Resident Evil 6.
