Resident Evil Village
Fair · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $10.45, only fair at $39.99.
- Length
- 9.8h
- Value
- $4.08/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 560 with 4GB VRAM ／ NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with 4GB VRAM. Windows only.
Experience survival horror like never before in the 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village. With detailed graphics, intense first-person action and masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more realistic.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 47 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $10.45 BANGER line 12 times.
On value it sits in the top 23 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Resident Evil 3 ($39.99, scores 39).
Critics scored it 83. Players sit 13 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 3,208 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, unlock); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 9.8 hours. Doing everything runs 39, 3.9 times as long.
Still 1.3K concurrent players, 5 years in.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
86% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1,284 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
10 superglued wrists out of 10 Highly recommend playing on Hardcore even for the first run. Endure the beginning despite being very challenging but I promise that's the most complicated part of the whole game. HDR + RTX + SFX gives a hell ton of atmosphere in the nights and dark places where you are running with the flashlight only.
Resident Evil Village is an excellent follow-up to Resident Evil 7 that successfully blends survival horror with more action-focused gameplay. It takes the foundation of the previous game and expands it into a much larger experience. The gameplay feels much more varied this time around. Each area introduces new enemies, environments, and mechanics, which helps keep the experience fresh from beginning to end. The...
Румынский поход за грибами Восьмая часть резака уже не такой камерный survival-horror, охватывающий всего одно поместье. У нас в распоряжении деревня, замок, поместье, мельничная фабрика, завод. Сам по себе не секрет, что Деревня очень многое взяла от Четвертой части: инвентарь, торговец, система локаций и др. Но она реформирует систему благодаря полученному опыту от Седьмой части, и все репрезенты внутри становятся...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Resident Evil Village scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1196590/resident-evil-villageThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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