Resident Evil 2: Cloud Version (2022) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Resident Evil 2: Cloud Version

Players join rookie police officer Leon Kennedy and college student Claire Redfield, who are thrust together by a disastrous outbreak in Raccoon City that transformed its population into deadly zombies. Both…

11 November 2022

What Resident Evil 2: Cloud Version is

Resident Evil 2: Cloud Version is an adventure game developed by K2 and released in 2022. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Players join rookie police officer Leon Kennedy and college student Claire Redfield, who are thrust together by a disastrous outbreak in Raccoon City that transformed its population into deadly zombies. Both Leon and Claire have their own separate playable campaigns, allowing players to see the story from both characters’ perspectives. The fate of these two fan favorite characters is in the player's hands as they work together to survive and get to the bottom of what is behind the terrifying attack on the city.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Resident Evil series

Resident Evil 2: Cloud Version is the 161st of 190 entries we hold in the Resident Evil series. The next entry was Resident Evil 3: Cloud Version in 2022.

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What it launched against

Resident Evil 2: Cloud Version launched on 11 November 2022, within three weeks of God of War Ragnarök, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Bayonetta 3 and Signalis. It arrived 5 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: God of War Ragnarök, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Bayonetta 3, Signalis.

Official trailer