Resident Evil 4

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 97%2023

The verdict

A polished, replayable action-horror remake with great combat and presentation. Skip it if you want slow survival horror, or if the Enigma DRM performance hit bothers you.

Great for

Action fans who enjoy parry-based combat, replaying with mods and Mercenaries, and Leon's cinematic ride

Main risk

Enigma DRM hurts performance, and it can feel tedious or soulless next to the original

What players love

Great graphics and atmosphere

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“The RE Engine looks staggering with true blacks.”
Steam review · 134.2 h played ↗

“sound design and lighting are elite”
Steam review · 13.5 h played ↗

Faithful yet improved remake

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“Some gameplay kinks have been worked out and other quality-of-life tweaks have been added”
Steam review · 28.3 h played ↗

Satisfying combat and knife parry

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“combat feels heavy and clean, parrying with the knife never gets old.”
Steam review · 13.5 h played ↗

“best combat in resident evil history and its not even close”
Steam review · 36 h played ↗

“I liked that the knife is now a full part of combat, not just an extra button.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 48.4 h played ↗

Memorable characters, Ashley and the Merchant

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“every time I see that blue flame and hear “What are ya buyin’?” my blood pressure drops.”
Steam review · 28.2 h played ↗

“Ada Wong just became one of my favourite video game characters ever.”
Steam review · 34.9 h played ↗

High replay value, DLC and Mercenaries

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“The Mercenaries mode is also very well made and gives you a lot of reasons to keep playing.”
Steam review · 840.7 h played ↗

“every time I go to finish it again, it feels just as enjoyable as when I first beat it.”
Steam review · 95 h played ↗

Excellent PC optimization

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews

“No stutters, No frame rate drops, not even a single bug to encountered in my entire 30 hour playthrough.”
Steam review · 34.7 h played ↗

“I ended up with a stable 80 fps at max settings.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 66.1 h played ↗

What players complain about

Enigma DRM hurts performance

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews

“The Enigma DRM patch for Resident Evil 4 Remake caused an FPS drop of about 20 FPS.”
Steam review · 113.4 h played ↗

“before i had stable 75fps on high settings with fsr quality, and now i can't even get 30fps on low settings with fsr performance.”
Steam review · 43 h played ↗

“Performance in the game dropped by 50%.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 10.1 h played ↗

Feels soulless next to the original

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“Resident Evil 4 Remake looks decent but feels soulless.”
Steam review · 29.8 h played ↗

“They ruined the characters by writing them differently to make them more serious, less entertaining, and less quirky.”
Steam review · 38.5 h played ↗

Repetitive, tedious arena gameplay

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“If I had to describe the game in one word it would be tedious.”
Steam review · 20.4 h played ↗

“An endless shooting range instead of atmosphere.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 29.2 h played ↗

Spongy enemies and unfair dynamic difficulty

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews

“Multiply the number of enemies, give them more health and make them shrug off headshots like they're nothing.”
Steam review · 27.9 h played ↗

“the core gameplay experience takes a step backward due to its heavy reliance on artificial difficulty”
Steam review · 29.2 h played ↗

Clunky Leon movement and aiming

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews

“Leon is nowhere near mobile enough to properly respond to threats as they occur.”
Steam review · 35.2 h played ↗

“The main character moves like a drunk. Changing directions takes an eternity.”
Steam review · 19.6 h played ↗

Not scary enough, too action-heavy

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 negative reviews

“despite the game supposedly being a horror game, it never once occurred to me that I should be feeling scared in any instance whatsoever.”
Steam review · 16.9 h played ↗

“not scary at all, no puzzles, bad story, bad atmosphere, literally feels like call of duty zombies.”
Steam review · 5.2 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSWindows 10 (64 bit)

ProcessorAMD Ryzen 3 1200 / Intel Core i5-7500

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsAMD Radeon RX 560 with 4GB VRAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with 4GB VRAM

Recommended

OSWindows 10 (64 bit)/Windows 11 (64 bit)

ProcessorAMD Ryzen 5 3600 / Intel Core i7 8700

Memory16 GB RAM

GraphicsAMD Radeon RX 5700 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

OSWindows 10 (64 bit)

ProcessorAMD Ryzen 3 1200 / Intel Core i5-7500

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsAMD Radeon RX 560 with 4GB VRAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with 4GB VRAM

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