How to Play the Resident Evil Games in Chronological Order

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Through its (near-)consistent excellence, innovation, and longevity, Resident Evil games person earned their crown arsenic the king of endurance horror. Capcom debuted its satellite of mutants and mercenaries successful 1996 and has since grown Resident Evil into a multimedia franchise that spans implicit 2 twelve console games, six films, 2 caller Netflix series, novels, comics, and adjacent signifier plays.

It tin beryllium an breathtaking franchise to research fixed the magnitude of contented it houses, though for the aforesaid reason, it tin beryllium an arsenic daunting bid to attack successful 2025. With the upcoming motorboat of Resident Evil 9, this nonfiction focuses exclusively connected video games and cuts retired the convolution by presenting 2 ways to play lone the astir narratively important and accessible Resident Evil games successful order.

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The 10 Best Resident Evil Games

How Many Resident Evil Games Are There?

There are 10 halfway Resident Evil games: RE 0-7, Village, and Code: Veronica. However, the full fig of Resident Evil console games — including spinoffs and remakes — sits astir 30. That fig rises adjacent 60 erstwhile accounting for mobile and pachinko games.

Which Resident Evil Game Should You Play First?

Our wide proposition for wherever to statesman is with Resident Evil 4 Remake. It's the astir visually/technically awesome RE remake to day and, acknowledgment to its masterful premix of enactment and horror, arguably the champion wide Resident Evil crippled successful the franchise's astir 30-year history. It's a mostly self-contained communicative that doesn't necessitate you to play each crippled that came earlier it.

However, if you similar first-person horror, we urge starting with Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. It's the opening of the Ethan Winters storyline and an fantabulous crippled that uses the much immersive first-person camera to heighten the horror.

How to Play the Resident Evil Games successful Chronological Order

For this list, we’re focusing connected 12 Resident Evil games: each 10 halfway entries and the 2 Revelations spinoffs. While galore others are considered canon, this is not an exhaustive chronology, but alternatively an approachable usher to entering and enjoying the satellite of Resident Evil video games.

Missing from this database are mobile and pachinko games, airy weapon and Wii shooters (Resident Evil Survivor, Survivor 2, Dead Aim, Umbrella Chronicles, Darkside Chronicles), and non-canonical/non-consequential/difficult to entree spinoffs (Resident Evil Gaiden, Outbreak, Outbreak: File #2, Mercenaries 3D, Operation Raccoon City, Resistance, Umbrella Corps, Re:Verse)

With bid newcomers successful mind, the little crippled synopses beneath incorporate lone mild spoilers specified arsenic wide crippled points and quality introductions.

1. Resident Evil 0

Resident Evil 0 is the 5th crippled released successful the bid but the archetypal chronologically. It takes spot conscionable earlier the events of Resident Evil, with Special Tactics and Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.) medic Rebecca Chambers and erstwhile marine Billy Coen discovering a bid afloat of zombies successful the Arklay Mountains (home to the Spencer Mansion). Billy and Rebecca uncover invaluable accusation related to bid villains Albert Wesker and William Birkin. We besides larn much astir the origins of the sinister Umbrella Corporation and its deadly T-Virus. The crippled wraps with Rebecca headed toward the mansion, wherever she’d service arsenic a supporting quality successful RE 1.

2. Resident Evil

The archetypal Resident Evil came to PlayStation successful 1996, though for those coming to the franchise successful 2022, you’ll privation to play the 2002 remake (or its much caller HD remaster), arsenic it improves gameplay and expands connected the story.

RE 1 picks up close aft RE 0. You play arsenic 1 of 2 S.T.A.R.S. agents — Chris Redfield oregon Jill Valentine — who travel to the Spencer Mansion portion investigating a bid of murders successful the woodlands extracurricular of Raccoon City. Chris/Jill encounters the murderous, mutated victims of the T-Virus and uncovers cardinal accusation astir Umbrella and its biologic experimentation.

3. Resident Evil 2

Taking spot 2 months aft RE 0 and 1, Resident Evil 2 introduces 2 caller protagonists — rookie bull Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield (Chris’s sister) — each with their ain connected yet chiseled campaign. RE 2 besides introduces the recurring quality Ada Wong and the iconic Tyrant enemy.

We larn much astir William Birkin and his enactment connected an adjacent much threatening microorganism called the G-virus. Leon/Claire uncover much disturbing details astir the clandestine enactment of Umbrella, arsenic good arsenic its ties to the Raccoon Police Department.

Resident Evil 2 is presently disposable to play for escaped with an Xbox Game Pass subscription.

4. Resident Evil 3

The chronology gets dicey with Resident Evil 3, but for the involvement of simplicity, we urge playing it aft 2. The archetypal portion of RE 3 takes spot earlier the events of RE 2; the 2nd portion takes spot after. You could play halfway done 3, pause, play done 2, past instrumentality for the 2nd fractional of 3. However, playing RE 3 aft 2 won’t detract from the acquisition oregon your knowing of the story. We chose to spot it 4th connected this database seeing arsenic its decision progresses the wide communicative beyond RE 2.

You statesman RE 3 arsenic Jill Valentine, inactive coping with her acquisition from RE 1, trying to flight from an overrun Raccoon City. For portion of the game, portion Jill is indisposed, power shifts to her mercenary state Carlos Oliviera. RE 3 besides introduces Nemesis and reveals the destiny of Raccoon City.

Resident Evil 3 Soundtrack Vinyl

24 tracks from the action-packed 2020 remake

5. Resident Evil: Code – Veronica

Resident Evil: Code – Veronica advances the timeline by a mates of months and sees Claire Redfield proceed the hunt for her member Chris that began successful RE 2. This clip Claire’s hunt takes her to an Umbrella installation successful France, wherever she escapes captivity and follows the way to the southmost portion of Earth.

Chris Redfield, 1 of the protagonists from the archetypal game, returns arsenic a 2nd playable quality successful Code Veronica. Chris, similar Claire, is looking for his sibling, and the hunt results successful a gathering with bid antagonist Albert Wesker.

6. Resident Evil 4

Resident Evil 4, arguably the series' astir beloved entry, puts players backmost successful the shoes of Leon Kennedy six years aft his clip successful Racoon City during RE 2. Leon travels to a agrarian colony successful Spain connected a ngo to rescue the U.S. president’s daughter.

There, Leon encounters a cult and explores its ties to a mind-controlling parasite. The communicative that unfolds weaves unneurotic the narratives of 2 characters from Resident Evil's past: Albery Wesker and Ada Wong.

Read our Resident Evil 4 Remake reappraisal to spot the improvements that were made since the original.

7. Resident Evil Revelations

Resident Evil Revelations is acceptable betwixt the events of RE 4 and 5. It explores different effect of Umbrella’s bioweapon improvement and introduces players to the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA).

Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield are present BSAA agents, with Jill serving arsenic the game’s superior protagonist. The duo caput to the Mediterranean to combat the usage of T-Abyss, a caller variant of the T-Virus.

8. Resident Evil 5

Resident Evil 5 is acceptable 5 years aft RE 4. Chris Redfield, arsenic portion of the BSAA, flies to Africa with his spouse Sheva Alomar to forestall the achromatic marketplace merchantability of a bioweapon. The radical of Kijuju, however, person already been infected with an enhanced mentation of the mind-controlling parasite seen successful RE 4.

It’s a larger-scale communicative than past Resident Evils, though Chris besides embarks connected the much idiosyncratic ngo of uncovering his long-lost partner, Jill Valentine. We besides larn of Albert Wesker’s latest nefarious plot.

Unlike past games successful the series, RE 5 tin beryllium played cooperatively; the 2nd subordinate controls Sheva.

9. Resident Evil Revelations 2

Resident Evil Revelations 2 is acceptable betwixt RE 5 and 6. It brings Claire Redfield backmost into the spotlight for the archetypal clip since Code Veronica. The crippled is divided into 4 episodes, with each occurrence divided into 2 parts: a past series with Clarie and Moira Burton and a contiguous series with Barry Burton (Moira's father) attempting to find them. The communicative introduces different antagonistic Wesker.

10. Resident Evil 6

Resident Evil 6 is an action-heavy escapade that tells an adjacent much sprawling (and convoluted) communicative than that of RE 5. It weaves unneurotic 4 campaigns starring Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield, Ada Wong, and a mercenary named Jake Muller.

The BSAA introduced successful Revelations plays an important relation successful 6, arsenic the quartet of protagonists enactment to squash the bioterrorist radical Neo-Umbrella and forestall the dispersed of yet different mutant-creating microorganism (the C-Virus).

11. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

With Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Capcom reinvented the franchise successful respective ways: It’s RE’s instrumentality to wide acclaim and fandom pursuing the mostly disappointing 5th and sixth entries, it introduces a caller protagonist successful Ethan Winters, and astir notably it switches the series’ longrunning position from third-person to first-person.

Despite each these changes, RE 7 inactive exists connected the bid canonical timeline, presumably taking spot successful the modern-day sometime aft RE 6. The crippled is acceptable successful agrarian Louisiana, with the archetypal portion taking spot successful the location of the wonderfully insane Baker family. Its ties to past RE games are alternatively loose, though galore of the bid staples are here: clandestine quality experimentation, bioweapons, and toward the end, a acquainted face.

12. Resident Evil Village

Resident Evil Village is simply a continuation (and the conclusion) of Ethan Winters’s story, acceptable 3 years aft the events of RE 7. Biohazard and Village basal connected their ain arsenic a duology of games. Though Village includes a fewer much ties to the series’ past, including a much salient relation for the aforementioned “familiar face” and further accusation astir the origins of Umbrella.

A post-credits country extends the timeline adjacent further. We’ll prevention the details, but those funny tin work connected to the adjacent conception for a spot much context.

Bonus: Shadows of Rose DLC

Picking up soon aft Village’s post-credits country (16 years aft the main communicative of Village), Shadows of Rose progresses the Resident Evil timeline further than immoderate crippled earlier it. Assuming the events of Village instrumentality spot successful 2021, Shadows of Rose brings the franchise into the adjacent aboriginal of 2037.

The 3-4 hr DLC stars Ethan’s girl Rose, who attempts to escaped herself of the unwanted powers inherited from her father.

Resident Evil: The Complete Playlist

Here's each RE crippled ever released, including the astir fashionable compilations.

How to Play the Resident Evil Games by Release Date

Resident Evil (1996)*
Resident Evil 2 (1998)*
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999)*
Resident Evil: Code – Veronica (2000)*
Resident Evil 0 (2002)*
Residet Evil 4 (2005)*
Resident Evil 5 (2009)*
Resident Evil: Revelations (2012)
Resident Evil 6 (2012)*
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2015)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017)*
Resident Evil Village/Shadow of Rose (2021/2022)*

*Mainline Resident Evil games

The Future of Resident Evil Games

There's plentifulness to look guardant to from this iconic fearfulness series. In precocious 2023, Capcom confirmed they're moving connected much RE remakes, and immoderate reports suggest Resident Evil Zero and Code Veronica are up next.

Capcom isn't conscionable looking to erstwhile games, however. The workplace confirmed that Resident Evil 9 is successful improvement past year, and a afloat uncover trailer for what is officially titled Resident Evil Requiem was presented astatine Summer Games Fest.

Helmed by Resident Evil 7's manager Koshi Nakanishi, the caller trailer appears to amusement Raccoon City, from the archetypal trilogy, aft it was destroyed successful an effort to incorporate the virus. The trailer besides introduces Grace Ashcroft, an FBI expert and perchance the girl of Alyssa Ashcroft from Resident Evil Outbreak. There's surely much than meets the oculus here, and immoderate theorists judge the crippled volition erstwhile again diagnostic nary different than Leon Kennedy.

Either way, Resident Evil Requiem is acceptable to motorboat connected PC, PlayStation, and Xbox connected February 27, 2026.

Jordan covers games, shows, and movies arsenic a freelance writer for IGN.

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Jun 9, 2025 2:51 pm

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