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Resident Evil Requiem is off to a hot start, and whether you want to attribute its success to Grace's old-school horror or Leon's UILF action hero persona, early sales figures have been extremely impressive. It launched as the fastest-selling game in series history, and that momentum seems to be continuing. A new US sales report suggests that, just two months after launch, Requiem is already one of the top five best-selling Resident Evil games ever released.
"After just two months in market, Resident Evil: Requiem now ranks among the top 5 best-selling Resident Evil games in all-time US dollar sales," according to Mat Piscatella of analysis firm Circana, posting on Bluesky. "It trails only Resident Evil 5, Resident Evil 4 (2023), Resident Evil: Village and the original Resident Evil 4."
Circana only analyzes the US market, so all the data we're looking at here applies exclusively to that country. But even discounting the global numbers, these results are still extremely impressive. While technically, yes, that is two months of sales data, remember: Resident Evil Requiem launched on February 27. Circana's last report covered February 1 through February 28, so it became the best-selling game of the year in just a day.
This month's Circana report covers March 1 through April 4, so all told, Resident Evil Requiem actually reached the series' top five in just 36 days. There's some irony in the fact that the grand return to Raccoon City has, in fact, outsold any of the previous games set in that location.
While Resident Evil Requiem remains the best-selling game of 2026, it actually placed second for the month of March behind MLB: The Show 26, Sony's venerable baseball series. The rest of the top five was made up of new releases WWE 2K26, Marathon, and Pokemon Pokopia, but there's another important caveat here. Circana does not track digital sales from Nintendo, so Pokopia's ranking comes purely from sales of the physical game-key cartridge – it's possible that game has done better than the rankings show.
Still, it seems that Resident Evil Requiem is the title with all the momentum here in 2026. Personally, I loved half of it and merely liked the rest – I'll let you guess which half is which – but I'm delighted to see Capcom continuing to release banger after banger. The fact that these excellent games are all single-player titles with definite endings just makes Capcom's resurgence all the sweeter.
Requiem ranks pretty high on our list of the best Resident Evil games.
