Capcom’s Great Horror Game Comeback

The mid-to-late 2000s were quite harsh to AAA game development, since just about every video game that hit the PS3 and Xbox 360 just HAD to make Call of Duty numbers. Thankfully, we’ve moved on from these dark times, and there’s no greater indication that those days are behind us than just looking at the current state of survival horror video games. These days, expectations are in check and no one’s expecting insane sales numbers, and that means video games that wouldn’t necessarily have to appeal to every single person out there have a better shot at being made.

While indie studios have long since been unburdened by these unrealistic expectations and continued to make some downright fantastic games, big-name studios are just now coming back to survival horror; Bethesda made a decent amount of money with The Evil Within, and Capcom has released hit after hit from 2017 onwards, starting with Resident Evil 7.