One-off purchase
Resident Evil 4 cost to play
What the original Resident Evil 4 costs on Steam UK and the Nintendo eShop, its PEGI 18 rating and its Steam player count.
Resident Evil 4 gameplay, images and trailer
© Capcom, Resident Evil 4 trailer “HD Trailer” on Steam · Steam store page
The short version
- From £15.98: Cheapest standard price: Resident Evil 4 (2005) (Steam UK, standard price)
- One-off price: Bought once; no store currency or random items on this page
- 15.5 h to beat: Main story: 15.5 hours (HowLongToBeat)
- £1.03 an hour: £15.98 ÷ 15.5 hours (main story)
- 1,479 Steam peak: Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts)
- PEGI 18: Age rating
- Released
- 11 January 2005
- Developer
- Capcom
- Platforms
- GameCube, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Nintendo Switch 2, PC, iOS, PS5, Mac
- Age rating
- PEGI 18
- Genre
- Action, Shooter
- Modes
- Single-player
On this page
Resident Evil 4 player count
Concurrent players on Steam, from Steam Charts, read 28 Oct 2026.
- Peak, last 30 days
- 1,479
- Peak, Sept 2026
- 1,393
- 763 on average
- Change vs Aug 2026
- −1%
- monthly peak
- All-time peak
- 5,343
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Is Resident Evil 4 dead?
No. Resident Evil 4 peaked at 1,393 players at once on Steam in September 2026, with 763 playing at any moment on average. Peaks are down 36% on the three months before. These are Steam players only; people playing on GameCube, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Nintendo Switch 2, iOS, PS5, Mac or other PC stores aren't counted, so the real number is higher.
| Month | Average | Peak | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 763 | 1,393 | −1.1% |
| August 2026 | 753 | 1,408 | −0.4% |
| July 2026 | 857 | 1,414 | −14.2% |
| June 2026 | 935 | 1,648 | −5.1% |
| May 2026 | 876 | 1,736 | −46.1% |
| April 2026 | 1,686 | 3,218 | −11.3% |
| March 2026 | 1,848 | 3,628 | +47.7% |
| February 2026 | 1,199 | 2,457 | +47.3% |
| January 2026 | 963 | 1,668 | +8.7% |
| December 2025 | 799 | 1,535 | +35.5% |
| November 2025 | 652 | 1,133 | +2.3% |
| October 2025 | 594 | 1,108 | – |
What Resident Evil 4 costs to play
| Item | Price | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resident Evil 4 (2005) (Steam UK, standard price) | £15.98 | game | store.steampowered.com Checked 21 Oct 2026 |
| Resident Evil 4 (Nintendo Switch, Nintendo eShop UK) | £15.99 | game | nintendo.com Checked 21 Oct 2026 |
How long is Resident Evil 4?
Resident Evil 4 takes about 15.5 hours to finish the main story, and about 32.5 hours to complete everything.
- Main story15.5 h
- Main + extras19.5 h
- Completionist32.5 h
Cost per hour (main story)
£1.03
£15.98 on Steam UK ÷ 15.5 h
Source: HowLongToBeat, read 28 Oct 2026. Your time will vary with difficulty and play style.
How Resident Evil 4 is rated
GamesChart Score
87.7, #37 of 3,236 rated games
#1 of 2005 · #8 of the 2000s · #14 in Shooter · #9 on Mobile
Critics
Players
Built from 376,697 ratings across 5 of 5 sources. Critics and players count 50/50. Includes Resident Evil 4 (2011), Resident Evil 4 (2023). Ratings pulled 5 November 2026.
Where it sits in the ranking
- #36
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Resident Evil 42005 · Capcom Production Studio 487.7 - #38
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Resident Evil 4 questions
How much does Resident Evil 4 cost in the UK?
Resident Evil 4 (2005) (Steam UK, standard price): £15.98. Resident Evil 4 (Nintendo Switch, Nintendo eShop UK): £15.99. Prices checked 21 October 2026.
Is Resident Evil 4 free to play?
No. Resident Evil 4 is not free to play: you buy the game to play it.
How long is Resident Evil 4?
Main story: about 15.5 hours. Main + extras: about 19.5 hours. Completionist: about 32.5 hours (HowLongToBeat). At £15.98, that's £1.03 per hour (main story).
What age rating is Resident Evil 4?
Resident Evil 4 is rated PEGI 18.
How many people play Resident Evil 4?
Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts): 1,479, checked 21 October 2026. Its all-time Steam peak is 5,343.
What is Resident Evil 4's all-time Steam peak?
5,343 concurrent players on Steam, the highest Steam Charts has recorded for Resident Evil 4 (read 28 October 2026). The peak in the last 30 days was 1,479. Players on other stores and consoles aren't counted.
Is Resident Evil 4 dead?
No. Resident Evil 4 peaked at 1,393 players at once on Steam in September 2026, with 763 playing at any moment on average. Peaks are down 36% on the three months before. These are Steam players only; people playing on GameCube, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Nintendo Switch 2, iOS, PS5, Mac or other PC stores aren't counted, so the real number is higher.
Do these Resident Evil 4 player numbers include consoles?
No. The player counts on this page are Steam only (Steam Charts, read 28 October 2026). People playing on GameCube, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Nintendo Switch 2, iOS, PS5, Mac, through Game Pass or on other PC stores aren't counted, and publishers rarely publish those figures.
Who makes Resident Evil 4?
Resident Evil 4 is developed by Capcom.
Resident Evil 4 is a single-player action horror game with third-person shooting, developed and published by Capcom. It was first released in 2005 on the Nintendo GameCube. This page covers that original game: its PC version, Resident Evil 4 (2005), came to Steam on 27 February 2014, and a Nintendo Switch version followed in 2019. Capcom released a separate remake in 2023. The original is sold at a one-off price. It ranks #37 in our best games of all time ranking.
How it plays
In Resident Evil 4 you play special agent Leon S. Kennedy, sent to rescue the US President's daughter, who has been kidnapped. His search takes him to a rural village in Europe, where the enemies are a departure from the lumbering zombies of earlier games in the series.
Leon fights creatures infested by a new threat called Las Plagas and an aggressive group of enemies that includes mind-controlled villagers tied to Los Illuminados, the cult behind the kidnapping.
The 2014 PC version runs in HD at 60 frames per second, with upgraded textures, sharper text and full widescreen support. It supports keyboard and mouse with customisable key bindings and mouse settings, as well as game controllers, and it includes earlier extra content such as the Separate Ways epilogue. Steam lists it as single-player.
What it costs
Resident Evil 4 (2005) costs £15.98 at standard price on Steam UK. On the Nintendo eShop UK, the Nintendo Switch version costs £15.99, a penny more. Steam lists no paid add-ons for this version.
Players
The 30-day peak on Steam Charts was 1,479 concurrent players on 21 October 2026. Its all-time peak on Steam Charts is 5,343. These figures are for the 2005 game on Steam only, not the 2023 remake or console versions.
Age rating
Resident Evil 4 (2005) is rated PEGI 18 for violence in Steam's store data, and the GameCube original is listed as PEGI 18 on Nintendo UK. Steam also lists ESRB M. The 2023 remake is rated PEGI 18 on pegi.info too, for violence and bad language.
How we checked
Prices are the Steam UK and Nintendo eShop UK listings, read on 21 October 2026 at standard price. Player figures are from Steam Charts on the same day. Ratings are from Steam's store data, Nintendo UK and pegi.info. The gameplay description is based on the publisher's Steam store page.
Card art and page images: screenshots from Capcom's Resident Evil 4 Steam store page. © Capcom. All trademarks belong to their owners. GamesChart is not endorsed by or affiliated with Capcom.
Official links: Steam · nintendo.com
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Sources
- Card art and page images – Resident Evil 4 Steam store screenshots (Capcom), published by store.steampowered.com
- Steam UK – Resident Evil 4, published by store.steampowered.com
- Nintendo UK – Resident Evil 4, published by nintendo.com
- PEGI rating – Resident Evil 4, published by pegi.info
- Steam Charts – Resident Evil 4, published by steamcharts.com
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