It's official: Resident Evil 9 is coming, and we simply acquired our first actual look at it during Summer Game Fest 2025.
Resident Evil Requiem is a single-player survival horror game due out February 27, 2026 throughout PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S.
On-stage at SGF, host Geoff Keighley mentioned Resident Evil Requiem marks a "bold shift for the franchise both in tone and gameplay." Expect "high-stakes cinematic action" on high of survival horror.
Check out the debut trailer under.
The trailer seems to verify a destroyed Raccoon City, which was nuked at the top of Resident Evil 3, by way of metropolis photographs that maybe recommend open-world game design. There's a transient look at the Raccoon City Police Department in ruins.
We could have a model new playable character on our fingers within the type of FBI technical analyst Grace Ashcroft, who’s investigating a sequence of unusual deaths. She's ordered to return to the scene of her mom's homicide, and in doing so should face her previous.
We then see Grace strapped to a gurney and listen to a mysterious determine say (*9*) Is he speaking about Grace? If Grace is a playable character, is she the one one? Are established Resident Evil characters like Leon within the game and playable?
Capcom's official web site doesn't have any significant solutions, however does level to "technological advancements" and "a story with rich characters and gameplay that's more immersive than ever before."
Here's the official blurb:
Requiem for the useless. Nightmare for the dwelling.
Resident Evil Requiem is the ninth title within the mainline Resident Evil sequence.
Prepare to flee demise in a heart-stopping expertise that may chill you to your core.
A brand new period of survival horror begins in 2026. Technological developments mixed with the event group's depth of expertise mix in a story with wealthy characters and gameplay that's more immersive than ever earlier than.
We've identified a new Resident Evil game was coming for a yr now, with Capcom having teased the next game during its summer season stream final July after which teased it yet again just last month whereas celebrating 10 million gamers of Resident Evil 4 Remake. That remake, which launched in 2023, was awarded a rare IGN 10/10, with our reviewer calling it "the series' most relentlessly exciting adventure rebuilt, refined, and realised to the full extent of its enormous potential."
If you need a catch up, try everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2025.
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