Resident Evil Requiem
Capcom
It was just released hours ago, but Resident Evil Requiem has rocketed up in playercount, particularly the one place we can track it, Steam. As we speak, Capcom’s new horror shooter has passed 314,000 concurrent players on the platform (writing this at just 9 AM ET).
Those figures easily make it the most-played Resident Evil game on Steam of all time. The previous record holder was the Resident Evil 4 Remake in 2023, which had a 168,000 concurrent max (right now it is doing 22,000 players a night, rather incredible, and boosted by RE9’s release, clearly).
A bit earlier than that, Resident Evil Village had 107,000 concurrents in 2021. In 2020, the Resident Evil 3 Remake had 60,000. As you can see, Resident Evil Requiem is about to top all three of these games combined. So clearly, interest in the series on this platform is dramatically escalating in time, though I am having some difficulty accounting for this high a surge. Perhaps it’s a lack of competition (this is certainly the biggest release of 2026 so far). Perhaps it’s the game’s quality (it has an 88 Metacritic score, good, though about in the middle of the series). Right now, it has an 86% positive ranking on Steam, a very good start.
Resident Evil Requiem
Steamdb
I keep checking the charts as I write this, but it’s not clear where it will end up. If you were wondering whether this is an all-time record for Capcom, you may have forgotten the truly wild launch of Monster Hunter Wilds, which at one point had 1.38 million concurrent players on Steam alone. That game has had its ups and downs, certainly (and a 44% Steam user score), but even now it’s doing 66,000 players a night on the platform.
Resident Evil Requiem is absolutely not a game where we should be monitoring “ongoing” players much after this, as it’s a purely single-player experience that is not terribly long. But it costs $70 like anything else, and it is blowing away expectations for the series, showing that after literally 30 years, it is more relevant than it’s ever been, a significant achievement.
Resident Evil Requiem is likely to be the biggest release on the market for a few weeks here, though it will clearly be displaced by Pearl Abyss’ Crimson Desert, the much-hyped, sprawling open world fantasy game that, in echoing Skyrim, likely has enough content for a few hundred hours to be sunk into it, at least. There’s already GOTY chatter about it (which seems a touch premature), but it seems like perhaps Requiem here should be on that list as well. We’ll know more as 2026 presses on.
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