Resident Evil RE:Verse Is Dead After Less Than A Week
When Capcom gets it right, it gets it right. When Capcom gets it wrong, boy, it gets it wrong. You only have to look at the success of Resident Evil 7 and its claustrophobic horror compared to Resident Evil 6's Hollywood-inspired gameplay to see it learns from its mistakes. So, what will the developer learn from Resident Evil RE:Verse?
Capcom has had a good run of it with Resident Evil, and following the release of Village in 2021, the much-hyped Winters' Expansion promised to deliver too much. Alongside adding the likes of the fan-favourite Lady Dimitrescu to Mercenaries, we had the Shadows of Rose DLC, and the chance to go back and play the campaign in third-person. Sadly, no one was psyched to play RE:Verse.
What's Wrong With Resident Evil RE:Verse?
If you haven't heard of Resident Evil RE:Verse, we don't blame you. The online multiplayer launched on October 28 alongside The Winters' Expansion, but it seems most of you would rather see how Ethan's story ends than shoot the living snot out of your mates as Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine.
If you head over to Steam Charts right now, you'll likely see that more people are playing the remake of the OG Resident Evil than RE:Verse. At the time of writing, there are just 196 people playing RE:Verse, compared to 280 playing Resident Evil. Not bad for two games with 26 years of difference.
We understand that the nostalgia factor will likely play into wanting to revisit the Spencer Mansion, but it's baffling that RE:Verse has fallen from grace... and so fast. On the other end of the spectrum, a healthy 5,294 are playing Resident Evil Village. A big ol' delay from 2021 won't have helped, however, we doubt anyone expected this shambling corpse after less than seven days.
Can Resident Evil RE:Verse Be Saved?
If the above wasn't damning enough, RE:Verse has a pitiful all-time peak of 2,080. This latest foray into taking the Resiverse online follows other middling outings like Outbreak, Outbreak File 2, and Resident Evil: Resistance. It could be worse, the latter of these currently has just 39 players online. Perhaps RE:Verse's only hope is that it branches out from its current map pool of the RPD and Baker ranch, but you'd better be quick.
At a time when asymmetric horrors like Dead by Daylight rule the roost, RE:Verse looks like it's fighting a losing battle. At this very moment, there are over 42k people playing DbD, so it's not like there isn't a bloodlust right now. It's true that we saw Fall Guys rise from the grave when it went free-to-play, but when it comes to RE:Verse, we have a feeling Capcom should go ahead and bury this one alongside Umbrella Corps. Seemingly, gamers don't have an appetite for this kind of game.
