Mainline games

This is the mainline Resident Evil, the series that essentially defined survival horror and has spent decades reinventing it. The early entries built tension out of scarcity and dread, fixed cameras and limited ammo turning a mansion or a zombie-choked city into a puzzle of survival. Resident Evil 4 later swung the camera over the shoulder and pushed toward action, a shift that reshaped third-person games far beyond horror.

The modern run keeps switching gears: the first-person haunted-house terror of 7 and Village, alongside the acclaimed ground-up remakes of 2, 3, and 4 that rebuild the classics with contemporary controls. The throughline is mutation, fittingly for a series about viral outbreaks: it keeps changing its own formula, lurching between slow dread and frantic action, yet stays recognizably itself. A long-running, games-only pillar of horror.

The Mainline games franchise spans 13 games in the CrossBinge catalog.

Part of Resident Evil.