Resident Evil Village
Games review
As of Jun 23, 2026, Resident Evil Village is rated 96% positive on Steam (149,410 reviews), and 84/100 on Metacritic (119 critic reviews). Each source is shown in its own units, never blended into one score.
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Is Resident Evil Village worth it in 2026?
A 96% positive rating from nearly 150,000 Steam reviews is not noise, Village genuinely delivers on atmosphere, characters, and a weapon-upgrade loop anchored by a memorable merchant that rewards replaying. The game moves through radically different horror registers across its sections, gothic castle, doll-house nightmare, factory chase, and that structural variety is where its real confidence lives, with House Beneviento standing out as a masterclass in dread. Critics landed cooler at 84/100, and the gap is explainable: the final boss and ending are a recurring complaint, Ethan is a charisma vacuum, and the story fumbles a trilogy arc that RE7 set up with genuine promise. Those are structural flaws, not nitpicks, and players who came for narrative payoff will feel the weak landing more sharply than players who came for moment-to-moment action-horror.
Players who want a polished, atmospheric action-horror game with strong setpiece variety and a satisfying upgrade loop, and can absorb a weak narrative landing after a strong ride.
The ending and final boss are a known letdown that hits hardest if you care about story payoff. The hardest difficulty is flagged as poorly balanced. And if you are prone to motion sickness, note that the FOV is locked, reviewers cited it as a source of physical discomfort, not just a preference
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Pros
- atmosphere and graphics9
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- This game has confidence. Not the fake kind. Not the kind where a horror game jumps out from behind a door every five minutes and expects applause. Real confidence. The kind tha...
- wow wow WOW, this game exceeded my expectations. I caught myself just admiring the view/landscapes many times while playing it, this game is BEAUTIFUL. The graphics are amazing! Th...
- Near perfect execution of the survival horror genre. Each area brought new surprises, when you thought you've seen it all this game comes out with some new creepy critter to get yo...
- engaging story and characters9
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- It's time to say it, one of best games I ever played this year. it was very good. the characters were good, between some of them have a sad backstory. definitely got a scared out...
- RE Village is a really decent game. I played it again after recently finishing the new RE9: Requiem, and gotta say I think in some aspects in comparison, this is a better game: wea...
- Man what a fantastic game, such a great story, such great characters. While RE7 feels like a spiritual successor to RE1. RE8 feels like a spiritual successor to the fan-favourite R...
- shadows of rose dlc4
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- It's time to say it, one of best games I ever played this year. it was very good. the characters were good, between some of them have a sad backstory. definitely got a scared out...
- wow wow WOW, this game exceeded my expectations. I caught myself just admiring the view/landscapes many times while playing it, this game is BEAUTIFUL. The graphics are amazing! Th...
- Truly one of the best games I have ever played, and the fps mode is really good Ethan is peak and that ending twist was too damn good. Chris was dope as well. Rose dlc was ♥♥♥♥♥...
- weapon upgrades and merchant4
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- Resident evil village....well well well... Walk into village. Meet a vampire. Meet a werewolf. Meet a giant mutant. Meet a giant baby. Get chased through a factory by a guy who lo...
- RE Village is a really decent game. I played it again after recently finishing the new RE9: Requiem, and gotta say I think in some aspects in comparison, this is a better game: wea...
- Just finished the DLC (the main story too of course) and its an amazing game, big step-up from biohazard. R.I.P Ethan though, was a great main character, and I honestly would've li...
- fun and replayable gameplay4
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- Honestly, I am surprised on how much I really like re8. I will admit, the first hour and a half wasn't doing it for me and I was thinking of giving up. But then the game started to...
- Simply a fun game. Not a great game, not a bad game. Just a game that is unapologetically fun. There's enough challenges and extras you can mess with to keep the game entertaining...
- Overall RE village is really fun to play, although i have my gripes with some things. For example, Chris just not telling us anything about what is going on, and seeming like the...
Cons
- ethan lacks protagonist charisma2
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- RE Village is a really decent game. I played it again after recently finishing the new RE9: Requiem, and gotta say I think in some aspects in comparison, this is a better game: wea...
- Great Ending to Ethan Winter's story. Not as scary as Biohazard but the storyline makes up for it.
- weak final boss and ending2
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- Overall RE village is really fun to play, although i have my gripes with some things. For example, Chris just not telling us anything about what is going on, and seeming like the...
- Truly one of the best games I have ever played, and the fps mode is really good Ethan is peak and that ending twist was too damn good. Chris was dope as well. Rose dlc was ♥♥♥♥♥...
- missed narrative potential1
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- This was a huge missed opportunity to make a franchise defining trilogy. RE7 ended with Eveline, a child* raised as a bioweapon who desperately wanted a family. RE8 introduced Rose...
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