The Resident Evil Reverse game is currently going through a difficult time. It appears that the game is suffering from a significant loss of players, making games increasingly difficult to organize.
The multiplayer spin-off Resident Evil Reverse (which is integrated into RE: Village) was designed to compete with the highly successful Dead by Daylight. However, it faces a worrying situation on Steam, marked by a drastic drop in the number of players, which strongly resembles a massacre.
Resident Evil Reverse is in bad shape
Resident Evil multiplayer games have always had their ups and downs. Resident Evil Outbreak and its sequel, Outbreak File 2, although solid, suffered from a multiplayer experience that was often more arduous and less enjoyable than the single-player game, notably because of an ineffective in-game communication system. Then, Resident Evil Resistance, despite its innovative concept, never really managed to establish itself, handicapped by its association with the underrated remake of Resident Evil 3. To make matters worse, the Reverse mode of RE: Village seems also very complicated.
Inspired by Dead by Daylight, Resident Evil Reverse promised to be a serious contender by bringing together heroes and villains from across RE’s history in competitive six-player deathmatches. However, a little over a year after its release in October 2022, the game is struggling to attract players. According to SteamDB data, the average number of players on Steam was just five people on December 4, 5, and 6 – one player fewer than needed for a full game. You understand a little of the problem. In this context, it is difficult to envisage a promising future for this opus of the saga. This situation seems surprising given the recognized popularity of this franchise. Did the players just get bored? Is the game just not good quality? We’ll let you be the judge.
The franchise will recover
According to Steam Charts, the 24-hour player peak was nine players, with a 30-day average of 8.4 players, a 99.6% drop from the game’s all-time record which stood to 2,080 players. Note that all this obviously only concerns the PC version. Obtaining such statistics for console versions is significantly more complex, and it remains unclear how the game performs on other platforms.
Despite these disappointing numbers for the multi-episode Reverse, the Resident Evil franchise continues to do well. Capcom has confirmed that it is working on other remakes and everything seems to be going well on that front.