It’s official: Resident Evil 9 is coming, and we just got our first real look at it during Summer Game Fest 2025.
Resident Evil Requiem is a single-player survival horror game due out February 27, 2026 across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S.
On-stage at SGF, host Geoff Keighley said Resident Evil Requiem marks a “bold shift for the franchise both in tone and gameplay.” Expect “high-stakes cinematic action” on top of survival horror.
Check out the debut trailer below.
The trailer appears to confirm a destroyed Raccoon City, which was nuked at the end of Resident Evil 3, via city shots that perhaps suggest open-world game design. There’s a brief look at the Raccoon City Police Department in ruins.
We may have a brand new playable character on our hands in the form of FBI technical analyst Grace Ashcroft, who is investigating a series of strange deaths. She’s ordered to return to the scene of her mother’s murder, and in doing so must face her past.
We then see Grace strapped to a gurney and hear a mysterious figure say “I know now that you’re the one that I’ve been searching for… special one. Chosen one.” Is he talking about Grace? If Grace is a playable character, is she the only one? Are established Resident Evil characters like Leon in the game and playable?
Capcom’s official website doesn’t have any meaningful answers, but does point to “technological advancements” and “a story with rich characters and gameplay that’s more immersive than ever before.”
Here’s the official blurb:
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living.
Resident Evil Requiem is the ninth title in the mainline Resident Evil series.
Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
A new era of survival horror begins in 2026. Technological advancements combined with the development team’s depth of experience combine in a story with rich characters and gameplay that’s more immersive than ever before.
We’ve known a new Resident Evil game was coming for a year now, with Capcom having teased the next game during its summer stream last July and then teased it yet again just last month while celebrating 10 million players of Resident Evil 4 Remake. That remake, which launched in 2023, was awarded a rare IGN 10/10, with our reviewer calling it “the series’ most relentlessly exciting adventure rebuilt, refined, and realised to the full extent of its enormous potential.”
If you need a catch up, check out everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2025.
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