Resident Evil at 30 – ranking every mainline game from 1996 to 2026

Which is your favourite Resident Evil game? (Capcom/Metro)

If you’re looking to catch up with the Resident Evil series, especially as more games come to Nintendo Switch 2, here’s which to play first and which to avoid.

While it is by no means the first horror game, Resident Evil is the series that coined the term survival horror. And while other horror franchises have faded into irrelevancy over the decades, Capcom’s franchise is performing stronger than ever.

It’s an impressive and welcome turnaround for a series that was losing its way by the 2010s, b...