Resident Evil (1996)
Worth it · Action · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.49/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 1,860
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Action
Holding it back: DRM, Cost per hour
Why
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.7h
- To 100%
- 16h 2.4x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 6 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 April 2026
- Sale every
- 23d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 46 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 6 discounts in the 7 months tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 3 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Resident Evil 2 (1998) ($9.99, scores 69) and Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999) ($9.99, scores 67).
More about Resident Evil (1996)
11 of the 458 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 701 have a larger share. In its first 30 days on sale, 9 of 137 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 514 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
6.7 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 4 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
About the game
Your squad has been choppered to a remote mansion to investigate a bio-experiment gone wrong. You’re plunged straight into a deathtrap. Arm yourself, solve puzzles, and unearth mysteries. But beware: every move you make draws you deeper into the deadly embrace of Resident Evil.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1660(6GB) or Radeon RX 5600XT(6GB), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Resident Evil (1996) scores 70/100 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/4249100/resident-evil-1996Reviews 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 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.