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Requiem is finished and you're sitting there missing a very specific thing: a snowy village, four houses full of monsters, and a merchant who charges you rent for a shotgun. That's the Resident Evil Village itch, and it's a weird one to scratch.
Village landed on May 7, 2021 and sits at 15.80 million copies as of June 30, 2026 per Capcom's own numbers, while Resident Evil Requiem shifted 8 million in four months. So here are 10 games that give you a piece of what Village did, and we tell you which piece. Updated August 16, 2026.
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1. Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard is the obvious pick and also the correct one. Same first-person camera, same poor Ethan Winters, except he's crawling through the Baker house in Louisiana instead of a castle. Around 10 hours, slower than Village and far meaner with ammo, and Madhouse difficulty shuffles item placement so your memory stops helping. 18.40 million sold, now on PSVR2 and Switch 2.
2. Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 4 is where Village stole its homework from. Rural village, crowds with pitchforks, a merchant with terrible prices, an inventory you play like Tetris at 2am. The 2023 remake runs about 16 hours and adds knife parries that rewire every fight. Mercenaries is free, Separate Ways is paid, and PSVR2 owners get a full VR mode for nothing.
3. Dead Space
Dead Space swaps gothic for a mining ship where something went very wrong. The 2023 remake rebuilt the Ishimura as one continuous space with no loading screens, so backtracking feels like being watched. Its Intensity Director keeps over 1,200 events on a leash and fires them once you've relaxed. Twelve to fifteen hours of shooting limbs off instead of heads.
4. The Evil Within 2
The Evil Within 2 gives you the thing Village never did: room to wander. Seventeen chapters, two semi-open chunks of the town of Union, side missions worth doing, and crafting you can do anywhere for extra resources. Fifteen to twenty hours depending on how nosy you are. John Johanas directed, Shinji Mikami produced, and it beats the original comfortably.
5. Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 2 is the best-selling game in the series at 19.70 million, and two hours in the RPD explain why. Leon and Claire get separate campaigns of roughly 8 to 10 hours each, the building unlocks like one big puzzle box, and Mr X follows you through it with no interest in your plans. Zero fat on it.
6. SILENT HILL 2
SILENT HILL 2 is for anyone whose favourite hour of Village was House Beneviento, the bit with no gun and one very bad doll. Bloober Team's remake arrived in October 2024, passed 2 million copies by January 2025 and hit Xbox Series on November 21, 2025. Seventeen to twenty-two hours of fog, guilt and deliberately clumsy combat.
7. The Callisto Protocol
The Callisto Protocol comes from Glen Schofield, the man behind the original Dead Space, and it's the most physical horror here. About 12 hours, tightly linear, built on a dodge-and-swing melee rhythm you either love or bounce off. Steam concurrents are in double digits now and Striking Distance has had layoffs, so nobody's pretending it won. Cheap, gorgeous, worth a weekend.
8. Resident Evil 3
Resident Evil 3 is the short one. Six hours on the critical path, eleven if you sweep for collectibles, and Nemesis kicks a door in whenever the pace dips. The dodge button pushes it toward action, which is why some rate it below RE2 and why others replay it yearly. 14.50 million sold. Grab it in a sale.
9. Alan Wake 2
Alan Wake 2 is the strangest thing here and the best written. Remedy splits it between FBI agent Saga Anderson working a case in the Pacific Northwest and Alan writing his way out of a nightmare New York, roughly 17 to 20 hours across both. On PC it's Epic Games Store only. The Lake House expansion adds another two and a half hours.
Release: 27 Oct 2023
10. The Evil Within
The Evil Within is Mikami's own 2014 answer to the question Village asks: what if every room wanted you dead? Fifteen chapters, about 15 hours, traps everywhere, ammo counted in single digits. It's rougher than everything else on this list and the difficulty spikes are genuinely unfair in places. Still worth it, because nothing else feels this hostile.
That's our ten. The full list of games similar to Resident Evil Village lives on the game page and goes deeper than this article does.
Now tell us what we got wrong. Which one should have been number one, and what did we leave out?
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