Resident Evil Requiem: all the important thing particulars on RE9's return to Raccoon Metropolis
Resident Evil Requiem, the ninth mainline entry within the Resident Evil collection, is only a few months away from launch. After its announcement stole the present at Summer season Video games Fest, we’ve been getting an increasing number of information concerning the upcoming survival horror sport. It’s trying like Resident Evil Requiem is about to offer a mixture of collection mainstays and recent additions. In its reveal we have seen traditional areas like Raccoon Metropolis and extra deep-cut references to Resident Evil Outbreak, alongside a completely new protagonist.
From the most recent trailers, to the discharge date, to all the newest updates on the story and gameplay, listed below are the important thing particulars that you must know forward of your journey to the Wrenwood Resort (and naturally, your return to Raccoon Metropolis).
Resident Evil Requiem launch date and platforms
That Raccoon Metropolis trip is arising quick. You received’t have to attend greater than half a 12 months for Resident Evil Requiem, as Capcom introduced it is going to be accessible February 27, 2026 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X|S.
The exact launch date got here alongside the sport’s reveal trailer at Summer season Sport Fest 2025, which was a welcome change from teasers that always go away you ready ages to know when a sport shall be prepared.
Resident Evil Requiem trailers
The primary trailer for Resident Evil Requiem debuted as a part of Summer season Video games Fest 2025. It’s right here that we had been first launched to Grace Ashcroft, the sport’s new protagonist (and the one playable character that we have seen to date). Over the course of the trailer she goes from ‘locked in’ at her desk to uhh… actually locked to a spooky medical inversion desk. It’s clear that attending to the underside of her mom’s homicide goes to be much more harmful than she anticipated.
In the meantime, the lately dropped ‘Official Sport Overview’ supplied additional perception into Resident Evil Requiem, with interviews explaining the sport’s core idea of “addictive concern” and precisely how they made Grace’s hair look so rattling good.
Resident Evil Requiem’s story
Resident Evil Requiem’s protagonist is Grace Ashcroft, an intelligence analyst for the FBI. Grace is the daughter of Alyssa Ashcroft, an investigative reporter for the Raccoon Press who appeared in Resident Evil Outbreak (a 2003 PlayStation 2 spin-off).
Grace is assigned to analyze a case involving a sufferer whose physique was found within the deserted Wrenwood resort: the exact same place the place her mom was murdered eight years prior. She makes her strategy to the resort looking for solutions however winds up unearthing greater than she bargained for, because the case “results in uncovering the hidden fact behind the outbreak in Raccoon Metropolis.” Now that’s a mysterious little hook proper there.
So Requiem is clearly going to take us again to Raccoon Metropolis. It hasn’t but been confirmed how lengthy after the Raccoon Metropolis Destruction Incident (September 1998) the sport takes place, however there’s sufficient details about the collection’ timeline to place collectively a fairly cheap estimate.
For one, we all know that Grace was born someday after 1998. She’s seemingly in her mid twenties now however is certainly not less than 23, given the minimal age requirement to change into an FBI agent. There’s additionally proof that her mom Alyssa was alive till not less than 2016 due to a information article from her that appeared in Resident Evil 7. After crunching these numbers, we determine that Resident Evil Requiem is just about set within the current day (or 2024 on the very earliest).
To cite the immortal phrases of RE4’s Ashley Graham, “LEON, HELP! HELP ME, LEON!”
There’s been loads of fan hypothesis that Resident Evil Requiem’s return to Raccoon Metropolis will coincide with the reappearance of one other iconic a part of the collection: Leon S. Kennedy.
The flames of this concept had been solely additional fanned by easter eggs within the trailer which can be believed to point out Leon’s jeep exterior the Raccoon Metropolis Police Station, and a line that sounds an terrible lot prefer it was delivered by Leon’s voice actor, Nick Apostolides. Add to that claims from a notable leaker and I’m nearly able to don my tinfoil hat and hop on the Leon hype practice.
In addition to, lots of the Resident Evil video games have two or extra playable protagonists. So, who is aware of? Since Resident Evil Requiem shall be playable in first particular person, we could get to expertise what the world seems to be like from behind these blond boyband bangs—what a privilege.
Resident Evil Requiem gameplay
If being hunted down in a darkish hallway of an deserted resort isn’t intense sufficient for you, in Resident Evil Requiem you possibly can swap from third-person perspective to first-person perspective to expertise all of the horror up shut.
You received’t be completely defenceless although. Grace’s line of labor means she’s skilled to wield a weapon, so there shall be gunplay featured in Requiem. That mentioned, she’s positively much less of a hardened fighter than earlier Resi protagonists like Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine. She’s nervous, simply startled, and deeply affected by the lack of her mom. These traits—sadly for her—make her an excellent candidate for scare.
In addition to, a gun and flashlight aren’t the one necessary belongings in a survival horror protagonist’s toolkit; if you wish to get by you’ll want smarts too. Some of the distinctive options of the Resident Evil collection is its use of puzzles, and Resident Evil Requiem will proceed its sample of uh, having you discover patterns to make your means via.