If a title was later ported to other platforms, those ports are not included.If a title was released simultaneously on multiple platforms, we only included the version that received the highest quantity of reviews from professional critics.In general, the first release of each title is included.Rather than clutter our list with countless versions of the same game, we limited our selection as follows: Many RE games were issued on multiple platforms and in multiple versions. In the gallery on this page, we rank every* Resident Evil game to date by Metascore, from worst- to best-reviewed.

The franchise has spawned over two dozen game titles-10 in the main series plus many more spinoffs and remakes-as well as a (fairly terrible) companion film series and two upcoming Netflix shows (one live-action, one animated). Now going on 25 years with no end in sight, Capcom's Resident Evil is the highest-grossing horror game franchise in history (as well as the Japanese gaming giant's best-selling property in any genre), with well over 100 million units sold even before this month's launch of the newest game, Resident Evil Village.

Resident evil: umbrella corps