After a long wait, the ninthResident Evilgame was finally announced at the 2025 Summer Game Fest asResident Evil Requiem. While details on it are currently scarce, its February 2026 release date means that fans won’t need to keep waiting much longer.Resident Evil Requiemstars FBI agent Grace Ashcroft as its new protagonist, having been sent to the area in or around the destroyed Raccoon City fromResident Evil 2and3to investigate a string of mysterious incidents. Once Gamescom 2025 rolls around, fans should see and hear plenty Evil Requiem.
For now, early previews indicate thatResident Evil Requiemwill be renewing the series’ focus on horror elements, afterResident Evil 7found success doing so almost a decade ago. An early portion of the game that was teased in the reveal trailer apparently consists of an intensestealth horror segment, compared by some toAlien: Isolation, where a large creature stalks Grace throughout a desolate building. Further details are pending, and fans have already begun theorizing about potential action sequences featuring Leon S. Kennedy, but for now, it may be best to settle for solving one mystery that’s more easily in reach.
Keeping Track of Resident Evil’s Timeline Could Aid In Understanding Resident Evil Requiem
Ties To Resident Evil’s Most Important Era Are Present In Requiem
TheResident Eviltimeline has always made a point of being clear and orderly, and this will be particularly important onceResident Evil Requiemlands on the chart.Requiemis revisitingResident Evil’s iconic Raccoon City after it was bombed in the endings ofResident Evil 2and3, which is a big deal for the franchise. Not only does this finally address the fate of one of the most memorable locations inResident Evil, but it also brings the series back to its roots in canon. That also means thatResident Evil 1’s Spencer Estate is nearby, so the possibilities forRequiemare practically limitless.
Setting aside theories of returningResident Evilprotagonists, or potential closure for the proto-Tyrant Lisa Trevor after her disappearance inRE1’s remake,Resident Evil Requiemis tied intoResident Evil Outbreak. Grace Ashcroft is the daughter of Alyssa Ashcroft, a reporter and playable character present inOutbreak’s ensemble cast. According to dialogue inResident Evil Requiem’s reveal trailer, Alyssa was murdered in a hotel eight years prior to the game’s events, and that little detail is a much larger clue toRequiem’s timeline placement than one might think.
Putting Together Clues About Resident Evil Requiem’s In-Game Date
Despite all the teaser trailer’s efforts to hide any dates clarifying whenResident Evil Requiemtakes place, hearing Alyssa has been dead for eight years narrows the window it could happen considerably.Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, which is set in 2017, includes an article Alyssa Ashcroft wrote dated 2016, so the earliest year thatResident Evil Requiemmay take place in is 2024. It’s likely that it takes place in the range of 2024 to 2026, makingResident Evil Requiemthefarthest full game in theREtimeline, and the second-farthest event next toResident Evil Village’s Shadows of Rose DLC.
Mainline Resident Evil Titles Follow A Chronological Trend That Requiem Will Likely Repeat
One more detail needs to be considered while pinning downResident Evil Requiem’s date, and that ismainlineResident Evilgames’ tendencyto adopt the same year they are released in. This does tend to include one year’s worth of wiggle room, likely owing to release dates shifting mid-development, soResident Evil Requiemis most likely set in 2025 or 2026. Considering the likelihood that the game will acknowledge how long ago Raccoon City was bombed in dialogue, it shouldn’t take much sleuthing to determine exactly whenResident Evil Requiemtakes place once it has been released.
