Resident Evil Requiem is likely now the biggest Resident Evil game in the franchise’s history, sporting a concurrent player count on Steam high enough to rival even multiplayer games.
At the time of writing, single-player Resident Evil Requiem has an all-time concurrent peak of 344,214 players on Steam alone, over double that of Resident Evil 4 Remake, and three times that of predecessor Resident Evil Village.
Resident Evil 2 Remake, on the other hand, has a Steam peak of 74,227 players, Resident Evil 3 a peak of 60,293, and Resident Evil 7, 20,449.
That 344,214 player peak is also bigger than the all-time Steam concurrent records of multiplayer games like Destiny 2 (316,750), Elden Ring Nightreign (313,593), and Monster Hunter: World (334,684).
Of course, concurrent peaks do not reflect players jumping into the action on other platforms – or even via other PC stores like Epic Games Store – so cannot be taken in isolation, but it’s typically a good indication of popularity. It also shows that Capcom has sold at least 344,214 copies in Requiem’s debut weekend.
As spoilers popped all over the Internet, prompting Capcom to acknowledge the situation ahead of the final weekend before the game’s launch, Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya had some choice words for the leakers, suggesting “they are cursed to never play the game again.”
“Is Requiem uneven? Absolutely. Does it eventually, slightly, run out of steam? I think that’s a fair criticism, too. But carried away on a wave of increasing nostalgia, I didn’t especially care,” Matt wrote in his 5/5 Eurogamer Resident Evil Requiem review.