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Resident Evil Village: Winters' Expansion

This expansion adds third person mode to the main campaign, new playable characters and stages to Mercenaries mode, and a story continuation called Shadows of Rose.

72 28 October 2022

Resident Evil Village: Winters' Expansion is a shooter developed by Capcom, released 28 October 2022 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch.

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What Resident Evil Village: Winters' Expansion is

Resident Evil Village: Winters' Expansion is a shooter game developed by Capcom and released in 2022. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Three years after surviving a waking nightmare, Ethan Winters and his wife Mia have been relocated to Europe to build a quiet new life with their newborn daughter Rose. That fragile peace is shattered one night when Chris Redfield and his squad storm their home, kill Mia, and spirit Ethan and Rose away. Ethan awakens the following morning beside a crashed transport truck in the remote Romanian countryside, only to discover that his baby daughter is missing. Desperate, he makes his way through a shadowy forest and stumbles upon a secluded village besieged by monstrous, werewolf-like creatures called Lycans. The village lies under the sway of the mysterious Mother Miranda and her four…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Resident Evil series

Resident Evil Village: Winters' Expansion is the 154th of 190 entries we hold in the Resident Evil series. The next entry was Resident Evil Village: Gold Edition in 2022. Its critic score of 72 is 2 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Resident Evil 4 at 95.

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How it was received

Resident Evil Village: Winters' Expansion holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Resident Evil Village: Winters' Expansion launched on 28 October 2022, within three weeks of God of War Ragnarök, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn and Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: God of War Ragnarök, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

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When did Resident Evil Village: Winters' Expansion come out?
Resident Evil Village: Winters' Expansion was released on 28 October 2022 for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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