Resident Evil
Fair · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $6.59, only fair at $19.99.
- Length
- 6.7h
- Value
- $2.98/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX260, ATI Radeon HD 6790, or better, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was February 2020. It has been discounted 86 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. 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 5 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $6.59, a level the record has reached 59 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 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 0 ($19.99, scores 49).
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 8. Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 2,365 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6.7 hours; clearing it takes 16, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
At 6.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
76% start to 28% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
186 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
Resident Evil HD Remaster is one of those games that proves a great horror game does not need modern graphics or complicated mechanics to be scary. Originally released as the 2002 remake of the first Resident Evil, this HD version gives the game a visual upgrade while keeping almost everything that made the original so good. The Spencer Mansion is still the highlight of the experience. The mansion feels mysterious...
i think everyone who complains about the controls/camera angles in this game is a wimpy baby which is okay i too was once a wimpy baby but after like 20 minutes you realize they're actually completely fine (especially if you play on controller. cause it was meant for controller. duh) i had so much fun with this game a lot more fun than i thought i would considering i originally played like 15% of it, gave up because...
To be honest, this might be the best Resident Evil game I've ever played. Since I'm quite familiar with the Resident Evil series' remakes, this game felt a bit strange at first (even though I've played the original Resident Evil 1). After all, while the remakes released recently generally deliver suspense, they're fundamentally action-oriented. So even if you feel the suspense, the sheer amount of action makes that...
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Resident Evil scores 66/100 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/304240/resident-evilThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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