Resident Evil Requiem price: buy now or wait for Scream Fest?

There are discounts live on Resident Evil Requiem right now, across Steam and the other official stores, eight months after Capcom put it out. That is the first thing most people will see this week. The second thing, which takes a price record to see, is that the Resident Evil Requiem price on offer today is still not the cheapest this game has been — and Steam's horror festival opens in two days.

Read on 24 October 2026: Playze holds 119 daily readings of the cheapest live offer for Resident Evil Requiem, from 19 June to 23 October 2026. The lowest is $25.47, on 18 September 2026. It belonged to a single seven-day window — 15 to 21 September — and across the four months either side, only seven of those 119 readings have come within ten per cent of it. Today's official cuts are not in that territory.

What the Resident Evil Requiem price has done since June

A slow leak rather than a cycle. The monthly medians in our record run $40.87 in June, $37.26 in July, $36.71 in August, $34.17 in September and $35.01 in October. That is roughly fifteen per cent over four months with no step changes — no launch-window collapse, no seasonal cliff, and until this week, nothing that looked like a decision by Capcom rather than drift in the reseller market.

The shape matters because it tells you what waiting buys you. If a price falls in discrete jumps, waiting for the next jump is a strategy. If it leaks, a month of patience buys you about a dollar, and the only thing worth waiting for is an event that breaks the pattern. In our record, that has happened exactly once.

Grace Ashcroft is the half of Requiem that plays like old Resident Evil — scarce ammunition, locked doors, a great deal of listening. (Official Steam screenshot)

The September week was the real floor

Between 15 and 21 September the cheapest listing we could find sat in the mid-to-high twenties, bottoming at $25.47 on the 18th. By the 22nd it was back above $30 and it has not returned. Seven days out of 119 is not a sale cycle; it reads like one reseller clearing stock, and our record shows the window closing as abruptly as it opened.

Everything outside that week clusters tightly. Fourteen of the 119 readings came in at or under $32, and half of those are the September window itself. A hundred and one of them sit at or under $38. So the honest description of this game's floor for most of the past four months is "high thirties" — and anyone who tells you it is routinely available in the mid-twenties is describing one week in September.

This is the distinction we set out in our piece on what a historical low actually means. A single-day low is a fact about one seller on one day. A floor is what you can reliably expect. The two are often more than ten dollars apart, and this game is a clean example.

Capcom's fourth Requiem trailer, from the official Resident Evil channel — the one that showed both Grace's and Leon's halves of the game.

Steam Scream V Fest starts on 26 October

Valve's partner documentation lists Steam Scream V Fest among this year's themed sale events, and the published calendar puts it from 26 October to 2 November 2026. It is the horror festival, which makes an eight-month-old Capcom survival horror game an obvious candidate for a deeper cut — not a certainty, because publishers opt in and set their own discounts, but the most plausible moment between now and the Winter Sale on 17 December.

That gives you a window rather than a hunch. There is no Steam Black Friday event this year, as we covered when the calendar landed, so once Scream Fest closes on 2 November the next store-wide opportunity is seven weeks away. If you want this game before Christmas, the next eight days are where the decision lives.

Raccoon City after the 1998 missile strike. Requiem goes back to it, which is most of the reason the series' long-term fans turned up. (Official Steam screenshot)

Official stores and resellers have not moved together once

Worth knowing before you compare anything. On the large majority of days in our record, the cheapest listing anywhere was a key reseller rather than an official store — and that is still true this week, with official discounts running. The two floors have sat several dollars apart all year and they move for different reasons: one tracks Capcom's discount calendar, the other tracks stock.

That is also why a live official discount is not automatically the moment to buy. It is the moment the official number finally gets interesting; whether it beats what was already available elsewhere is a separate question, and on this game the answer has been no on every one of the 119 days we have readings for.

If you are considering the reseller route, the checks are the ones in our guide to whether keyshops are safe: who the seller is, what the refund terms are, and whether the key is region-locked. A recent Capcom release is exactly the kind of title where the gap is wide enough to tempt and the risk is real enough to matter. Compare the live listings on the Requiem game page rather than any figure printed in an article, including this one.

Is it worth buying at all?

Requiem is the mainline Resident Evil, and Capcom's own description of it is unusually accurate: two protagonists with genuinely different gameplay, FBI analyst Grace Ashcroft on the survival-horror side and Leon S. Kennedy on the action side, both routed through Raccoon City. It is single-player, it has full controller support, and it will be properly discounted eventually, because every Capcom game is.

The useful comparison is against the back catalogue, which is where the value sits. Resident Evil 4 is the best game in the series and has been cheap for two years. Village and Resident Evil 7 are the first-person pair and go lower still. Resident Evil 2 is where to start if you have never played any of them — we went through that order in our Capcom sale guide, and Requiem does not change it.

Resident Evil 4's remake remains the series' high-water mark and a fraction of Requiem's price. If you are buying one Capcom horror game this month, it is still the better purchase. (Official Steam screenshot)

Why a prestige release prices like this

Games in Requiem's bracket hold their price through the first year and fall hard in the second — the trajectory Village took, and the reason it is now a fraction of what it launched at. Our record is catching the flat part of that curve. The fifteen per cent drift since June was not Capcom discounting; it was the reseller market finding its level underneath an official price that had barely moved. This week is the first time the official side has moved at all.

Which makes the next eight days genuinely informative. If Scream Fest deepens the cut, you will learn where Capcom is willing to go on a first-year title. If it does not, you have a clear benchmark for what "cheap" means here, and it is the September number.

Requiem spends a lot of its running time in rain and strobing light. It is a good-looking game and a demanding one. (Official Steam screenshot)

The second trailer, also from the official Resident Evil channel, for a longer look at the Grace sections before you commit.

If horror is the point rather than this game

Scream Fest will discount several hundred horror games and most of them will go deeper than Requiem does. We keep a running list in our rundown of horror games worth buying on sale, and the pattern there is consistent: the genre's best value is four or five years old, not eight months.

The bottom line

Wait until 26 October. The discounts live this week are the first real movement on the official side all year, which is a reason to pay attention and not a reason to buy today — Scream Fest is the single most likely moment between now and mid-December for a deeper cut, and our record says eight days of patience costs you almost nothing, because this price only drifts about a dollar a month on its own. If the festival passes without a better number, treat the September floor of $25.47 as the benchmark, and check the game page rather than any single storefront — the official and reseller floors on this game have not converged once in 119 days.