07-06-2026, 07:40 PM
For the avoidance of doubt, playing through the series is largely as simple as playing through in number order. Code Veronica is a mainline game that fits between 3 & 4, whilst the two Revelations games are NOT considered mainline but the events are canonical and therefore worth playing. So to summarise, the play order should look like this. Every other Resident Evil game not on this list is a spinoff and can be played however and whenever you like:
- RE0
- RE1
- RE2
- RE3
- Code Veronica
- RE4
- Resident Evil Revelations (not mainline, but story canonical)
- RE5
- Resident Evil Revelations 2 (not mainline, but story canonical)
- RE6
- RE7: Biohazard (soft reboot)
- Village
- Requiem
- RE0
- RE1
- RE2
- RE3
- Code Veronica
- RE4
- Resident Evil Revelations (not mainline, but story canonical)
- RE5
- Resident Evil Revelations 2 (not mainline, but story canonical)
- RE6
- RE7: Biohazard (soft reboot)
- Village
- Requiem
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