Resident Evil Village

Resident Evil Village is an adventure game developed by Capcom Development Division 1 and released in 2021. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on RE Engine.

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 56 achievements to unlock.

Resident Evil Village is the 141st of 190 entries we hold in the Resident Evil series. The next entry was Resident Evil Village: Deluxe Edition in 2021. Its critic score of 87 is 13 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Resident Evil 4 at 95.

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Resident Evil Village holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 620 votes.

The main story runs about 12.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 22.3 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $9.24, that works out to about $0.74 per hour of the main story, or $0.41 per hour if you finish everything.

The minimum specification calls for AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ／ Intel Core i5-7500, 8 GB RAM and AMD Radeon RX 560 with 4GB VRAM ／ NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with 4GB VRAM. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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The cheapest verified price right now is $9.24 at Gamesplanet, 77% below its usual price. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Japan is the cheapest region we track at ¥3,990 (about $25.18), while United Kingdom pays £34.99 — 1.9 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 33 on Steam, which is about $32.99.

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Resident Evil Village launched on 6 May 2021, within three weeks of Biomutant, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Returnal and Mass Effect Legendary Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Biomutant, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Returnal, Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

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