Capcom's Resident Evil Requiem won Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards yesterday, the show's top prize. The official Resident Evil account added that Requiem also won Console Game of the Year, Best Game Trailer and Best Lead Performer for Angela Sant'Albano as Grace Ashcroft. Requiem is the 9th mainline Resident Evil game, released in February, and Capcom's official site says it has sold over 8 million units worldwide. Check out the official posts down below:
Requiem stars FBI intelligence analyst Grace Ashcroft and veteran agent Leon S. Kennedy. Capcom's story summary opens with a body found at an abandoned hotel in the Midwest, the latest in a string of mysterious deaths across the United States. Grace is assigned to the case at the same hotel where her mother was murdered 8 years earlier, Leon is sent in after a police officer goes missing there, and the 2 end up investigating the truth behind the Raccoon City Incident. Requiem was also up for several honors at the first Fandom Awards, as covered in Resident Evil Requiem And Pragmata Pick Up Several Nominations At The First Fandom Awards.
Every Main Resident Evil Game In Story Order
The main series runs from July 1998 to October 2026 in the story's own calendar. Resident Evil 3 is listed before Resident Evil 2 because its first half starts on September 28, 1998, a day before Leon and Claire reach Raccoon City, though its second half ends after them on October 1.
- Resident Evil Zero (2002): July 1998, aboard the Ecliptic Express and in an Umbrella training facility outside Raccoon City.
- Resident Evil (1996, remade in 2002): July 24 to 25, 1998, in the Spencer mansion in the Arklay Mountains.
- Resident Evil 3 (1999, remade in 2020): September 28 to October 1, 1998, in Raccoon City.
- Resident Evil 2 (1998, remade in 2019): September 29 to 30, 1998, in Raccoon City.
- Resident Evil Code: Veronica (2000): December 27 to 28, 1998, on Rockfort Island and at an Umbrella base in Antarctica.
- Resident Evil 4 (2005, remade in 2023): autumn 2004, in rural Spain.
- Resident Evil Revelations (2012): 2005, mostly aboard the cruise ship Queen Zenobia.
- Resident Evil 5 (2009): March 2009, in the Kijuju Autonomous Zone in Africa.
- Resident Evil Revelations 2 (2015): 2011, on Sein Island.
- Resident Evil 6 (2012): December 2012 to July 2013, across Edonia, Tall Oaks and Lanshiang.
- Resident Evil 7 Biohazard (2017): July 2017, at the Baker family's plantation in Louisiana.
- Resident Evil Village (2021): February 2021, in a village in Europe.
- Resident Evil Requiem (2026): October 2026, at the Wrenwood Hotel, the Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center and the ruins of Raccoon City.
The Raccoon City Games
Resident Evil Zero is the earliest main story. S.T.A.R.S. officer Rebecca Chambers and convicted prisoner Billy Coen work together through an abandoned training facility for Umbrella employees, and players switch between the 2 to solve puzzles. The original Resident Evil follows the next night, with S.T.A.R.S. members Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine trapped in a mansion full of zombies in the Arklay Mountains. Capcom remade it for the GameCube in 2002 and re-released the remake in HD in 2015.
Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 cover the fall of Raccoon City itself. In Resident Evil 2, rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield, who has come looking for her brother Chris, fight their way out of the city. Resident Evil 3 follows Jill Valentine and the Umbrella mercenary Carlos Oliveira as the engineered mutant Nemesis hunts Jill through the same outbreak. The government missile strike that destroyed the city on October 1, 1998, closes out that stretch, and the missile-scarred ruins of Raccoon City are a location in Requiem.
From Rockfort Island To Requiem
Code: Veronica takes place 3 months after Raccoon City. Claire Redfield is captured while searching for Chris and held on Umbrella's Rockfort Island, and the story moves on to an Umbrella facility in Antarctica, with Chris joining it in the second half. Resident Evil 4 jumps to 2004, when Leon, now a US government agent, is sent to rural Spain to rescue Ashley Graham, the president's daughter, from a cult.
Resident Evil Revelations puts Jill and Chris on the cruise ship Queen Zenobia in 2005, between Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil 5 follows Chris and his partner Sheva Alomar in Kijuju, a fictional region of West Africa, in 2009. Revelations 2 comes next, in 2011, and pairs Claire with Moira Burton, the daughter of original S.T.A.R.S. member Barry Burton, after attackers take them from a TerraSave party. Resident Evil 6 runs from late 2012 into 2013 and splits its story between Leon, Chris, Ada Wong and Jake Muller.
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard moved the series to first-person and introduced Ethan Winters, who searches for his missing wife at a derelict Louisiana plantation occupied by an infected family in 2017. Resident Evil Village continues his story in 2021, when Ethan searches for his kidnapped daughter in a village in Europe. Requiem jumps to October 2026, 28 years after the destruction of Raccoon City.
The Release Order
Resident Evil 4 introduced the series' over-the-shoulder camera in 2005, and Resident Evil 7 Biohazard switched to first-person in 2017. The main games and remakes came out in this order:
- Resident Evil (1996)
- Resident Evil 2 (1998)
- Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999)
- Resident Evil Code: Veronica (2000)
- Resident Evil remake (2002)
- Resident Evil Zero (2002)
- Resident Evil 4 (2005)
- Resident Evil 5 (2009)
- Resident Evil Revelations (2012)
- Resident Evil 6 (2012)
- Resident Evil Revelations 2 (2015)
- Resident Evil 7 Biohazard (2017)
- Resident Evil 2 remake (2019)
- Resident Evil 3 remake (2020)
- Resident Evil Village (2021)
- Resident Evil 4 remake (2023)
- Resident Evil Requiem (2026)
Where The Spin-Offs Fit
Resident Evil Outbreak (2003) and Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 (2004) were PlayStation 2 games built around 8 playable Raccoon City characters trying to escape the outbreak between September 23 and October 1, 1998, the same days as Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3. One of those 8 is the reporter Alyssa Ashcroft, Grace's mother in Requiem.
Resident Evil Survivor (2000) is set on Sheena Island in November 1998. The Wii rail shooters Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007) and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (2009) retell earlier games and add new chapters. Umbrella Chronicles recaps Zero, the original game and Resident Evil 3 and adds Umbrella's End, set in February 2003, which covers Umbrella's downfall. Darkside Chronicles recaps Resident Evil 2 and Code: Veronica and adds Operation Javier, Leon's 2002 mission in South America. Resident Evil: Dead Aim (2003) is set in September 2002.
Which Versions To Play Today
Every game in the story-order list except Code: Veronica has a version on Steam. The original Resident Evil is on Steam as the 2015 HD version of the 2002 remake, and Resident Evil Zero is on Steam as its 2016 HD version. Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 are on Steam as Capcom's 2019 and 2020 remakes, and Resident Evil 4 has both the 2005 original and the 2023 remake there. The Resident Evil 2 remake has outsold every other game in the series, as covered in The Resident Evil 2 Remake Has Dethroned Resident Evil 5 As Series Best-Seller After 15 Years.
The 3 remakes came to Nintendo Switch 2 last month as Resident Evil 2 Deluxe Edition, Resident Evil 3 and Resident Evil 4 Gold Edition, and Resident Evil 7 Biohazard and Resident Evil Village also have Switch 2 versions. The official announcement trailer for the Switch 2 remakes is below:
Code: Veronica is next in line for a remake. Capcom revealed Resident Evil Veronica in June and says it "preserves the essence of the original game, while introducing modernized gameplay, a reimagined storyline, and vividly detailed graphics." It is due in 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and Steam.
Requiem itself is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, Steam, the Epic Games Store and GeForce NOW, and Capcom has a demo with sections for both Grace and Leon. Players can switch between first-person and third-person views in both characters' chapters.
Who Connects To Requiem
Capcom's character profiles tie Requiem directly to the Raccoon City games. Alyssa Ashcroft is described as a survivor of the Raccoon City Incident and a reporter at the time of the outbreak who kept investigating Umbrella afterward. Leon is introduced as one of the survivors of the Raccoon City Incident and is now an agent of the DSO, the Division of Security Operations, fighting bioterrorism. The main suspect, Victor Gideon, once specialized in T-Virus research at the Umbrella Corporation.
Leon's own history in the series runs through Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 6 and the Operation Javier chapter of Darkside Chronicles. Grace's sections play like Resident Evil 7 and Village, with limited supplies, crafting from infected blood and a monster that stalks her, while Leon's sections use firearms, his hatchet, parries and an attaché case for gear. Capcom's launch trailer for Requiem is below:
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