Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 4 is a remake of the 2005 original Resident Evil 4 reimagined for 2023 to bring state-of-the-art survival horror. Resident Evil 4 preserves the essence of the original game, while introducing…
Resident Evil 4 is an adventure developed by Capcom Development Division 1, released 24 March 2023 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 4.
What Resident Evil 4 is
Resident Evil 4 is an adventure game developed by Capcom Development Division 1 and released in 2023. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on RE Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set six years after the events of Resident Evil 2, an older and significantly toughened Leon S. Kennedy has been shaped by his experiences of enduring the disaster that wiped Raccoon City off the map and events beyond. Now reporting directly to the President of the United States of America, Leon is given a new assignment: To locate and rescue the President’s kidnapped daughter. Tracking her location to a secluded village in the European countryside, Leon prepares to take his first steps into another nightmare that reaches far past reason.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 46 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Resident Evil series
Resident Evil 4 is the 166th of 190 entries we hold in the Resident Evil series. The next entry was Resident Evil 4: Deluxe Edition in 2023. Its critic score of 95 is 21 points above the series average of 74. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Resident Evil 4 holds a critic score of 95 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 92, across 690 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Ryzen 3 1200 / Intel Core i5-7500, 8 GB RAM and AMD Radeon RX 560 with 4GB VRAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with 4GB VRAM. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Resident Evil 4 launched on 24 March 2023, within three weeks of Dredge, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Figment 2: Creed Valley and Wartales. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dredge, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Figment 2: Creed Valley, Wartales.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Resident Evil 4 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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