After only one day on shop shelves and digital stores, Resident Evil Requiem became the US's best-selling game of the year so far.
According to market research firm Circana, the horror blockbuster debuted as the best-selling game of the year in the US and topped monthly sales charts on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. Resident Evil Requiem's Switch 2 port also touched the number six spot on the best-selling Nintendo games charts for the month, while the Resident Evil Generation Pack containing Biohazard, Village, and Requiem peaked at number four on the same list.
Still, that was enough for Resident Evil Requiem to cement itself as the best-selling game of February 2026 and the year as a whole in the region. Even more impressive is the fact that Resident Evil Requiem achieved the milestone with just one day of sales tracking - it officially came out on February 27 and Circana's newly-released charts stretch to February 28.
The top 20 best-selling games of the year chart has only two other games that actually came out in 2026, Code Vein 2 and Dragon Quest 7: Reimagined. Every other slot is taken up by the usual evergreen suspects: GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption 2, Forza Horizon 5, Minecraft, you get the gist.
"Launch week dollar sales of Resident Evil Requiem were more than 60% higher than the launch week total of Resident Evil: Village," Circana's Mat Piscatella notes, "with unit sales increasing by more than 40%." Though, those numbers don't include bundled editions.
As for more concrete numbers, Capcom recently revealed that Leon and Grace's joint horror romp sold a whopping six million copies in 17 days, a new record for the long-running series.
Resident Evil Requiem Leon actor recognizes fan thirst spans age, gender, and time itself as he vows to keep hitting the gym to "live up to this": "I bet you got a body pillow."
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