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Resident Evil

Wii • 2015

Should you play it?

The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.

What works

  • Faithful remake with improved graphics and sound
  • Engaging survival horror atmosphere
  • Challenging puzzles and inventory management
  • Multiple characters and endings for replayability
  • Classic fixed camera angles enhance tension

Things to keep in mind

  • Fixed camera and tank controls can frustrate new players
  • Limited inventory space requires frequent backtracking
  • Some blurry backgrounds and dated cutscenes
  • Voice acting is campy and sometimes poor
  • Slow pacing and door load animations may annoy

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Cronos: The New Dawn

  • Total Chaos

  • Fear The Timeloop

  • Eternal Evil

  • Tormented Souls 2

  • Them and Us

Less expressive

Games that feels like Resident Evil but with less self-expression and customization

  • The Story of Henry Bishop

  • Project Nightmares Case 36: Henrietta Kedward

  • Paper Dolls: Original / 纸人

  • Remothered: Tormented Fathers

  • Lethe - Episode One

  • Amnesia: Rebirth

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Resident Evil 4

  • Devil May Cry HD Collection

  • Resident Evil 4 (2005)

  • Dino Crisis 2

  • Resident Evil

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Resident Evil. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Resident Evil. These titles are not in What to play next.

Resident Evil: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026