Resident Evil

Resident Evil

Worth it · Shooter · 2015

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$4.9975% offBANGER

Cost per hour▼
$1.71/hr
ReviewsS
92% of 37,389
Critics
82 players 10 higher
Genre rank
Top 8% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 43% off ($11.47) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
11.7h
To 100%
22.9h 2.0x the story
Finish
28% reach the ending
Achievements
44

Price and sales

Sales
88 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$4.99 February 2020
Sale every
36d last October 2026
Lowest now $4.39 at Fanaticalall-time low $3.55 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
299 now
Recent reviews
91% 30 days
Cheaper than
16% of its genre
Better reviewed
90% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

76% start to 28% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 88 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $11.47, a level the record has reached 82 times.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 8 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil 4 (2005) ($19.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Resident Evil 0 ($19.99, scores 49).

More about Resident Evil

82 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 2,400 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.

At 11.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 4 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement28% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.71/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds13 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

The real horror is not the zombies. It's turning a corner, having the camera angle suddenly change, and realizing the zombie you were running away from is now directly in front of you. Those camera-change jumpscares gave me more heart attacks than the actual scripted scares. And somehow, I love it. Resident Evil is still an incredible survival horror game. The mansion is basically one giant puzzle box where every...
phucdatbichRecommendedafter 19h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
I loved the original Resident Evil. Warts and all. So I really enjoyed this remaster. If you enjoyed the original, then this game is for you. Yes it has janky controls. Yes it has cringe worthy dialogue. Yes it has a glut of 5 second load screens that consist of doors opening. Yes it has inventory managment up the wazoo. If you have been too spoiled by modern games that hand you everything, steer clear of this one...
umantargetRecommendedafter 29h26 found this helpfulRead on Steam
MUKKKEMMELDIII!!!! kesinlikle benim icin biohazard'dan sonra enn korkunc re oyunu oldu ve ayni sekilde 7'den sonraki fav oyunum. 0'daki gibi o gotik havasina ve estetigine yine hayran olduk spencer mansion seni çok seviyorum keske benim olsan rip. bagimlisi olup her an oynamak istiyordum cidden her ani asissiri iyiydi bi lab kismini sevemedim ki ben re'deki lab kisimlarini genel sevmiyorum zaten.. bu oyunda çok...
deryaatreidesRecommendedafter 12h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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About the game

The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX260, ATI Radeon HD 6790, or better, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Resident Evil scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/304240/resident-evil
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+10
Critics82
Players92
Metacritic critics · 37,389 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperCAPCOM Co., Ltd.
PublisherCAPCOM Co., Ltd.
GenreShooter
Released2015
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements44