Resident Evil 4 cover art

Resident Evil 4

2023 · Capcom · ~17h to finish

An action game wearing horror, and the resource economy is the horror. Ammunition is the real health bar, and the game quietly adjusts how much of it you find based on how well you are shooting.

horroractionshooterPCPlayStation 5Xbox SeriesMetacritic 91
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty4.3MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

Price on Steam

$39.99

USD · United States · checked 2h ago

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Reaction
5.2
Strategy
4.5
Execution
4.2
Learning Curve
4.0
Punishment
3.8
Obscurity
2.9
Puzzle
2.2
Grind
1.7
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Execution drops 1.3 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Reaction drops 1.0 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.9 points off, if you use them.

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 10% · ~1hStrategy

    the opening fight the game is quietly asking you to lose

    18
  2. 65% · ~10hObscurity

    the enemies that stand back up unless you are carrying the right tool

    38

Assists & accessibility

0/4 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]Assisted, Standard, Hardcore and Professional, chosen at the start.

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Aim assist [unsourced]Aim assist on Assisted difficulty, plus optional auto-healing at low health.
  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

A remake of the 2005 original: a rescue mission through a rural village and a castle, played over the shoulder with a grid inventory you have to physically arrange.

Where to go from here

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