Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
First-person combat against a deranged family and fungal 'Molded' creatures with heavy blood spray, using knives, firearms, chainsaws, and a flamethrower.
Themes of a family broken and mind-controlled by infection, imprisonment, abuse, and bodily horror pervade the story.
Sustained psychological dread, jump scares, stalking enemies, and body horror in a decaying rural estate.
Severed limbs are a recurring image; the protagonist's hand is cut off and reattached, and enemies can be dismembered.
Frequent strong profanity in character dialogue during confrontations.
Captives, including the protagonist, are menaced, restrained, and brutalized in graphic scenes such as a forced family 'dinner.'
Brief partial nudity and grotesque, decaying human bodies appear in disturbing scenes.
Alcohol is referenced in the household setting and the player crafts and injects makeshift 'psychostimulant' items as a gameplay aid.
The Baker family kidnaps, imprisons, and murders visitors, witnessed throughout the story.
Brief suggestive tension between the protagonist and his wife; no explicit acts are shown.
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What it is
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard is a first-person survival horror game in which you play as Ethan Winters, an ordinary man searching a decaying Louisiana plantation for his missing wife. The estate is controlled by the Bakers, a family driven violently insane by a fungal infection, and by monstrous mold-based creatures called the Molded. Play mixes exploration, puzzle-solving, resource scavenging, and combat with knives, firearms, chainsaws, and a flamethrower. The game leans heavily into fear, gore, grotesque body horror, and disturbing subject matter such as captivity, mutilation, and a family's descent into madness. It contains strong language, bloody and dismembering violence, depicted cruelty toward captives, and brief references to alcohol and player-crafted stimulant items. It is a single-player experience with no online interaction or purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames Ethan as a frightened, outmatched survivor acting in self-defense against attackers, positioning the horror and violence as threats to endure and escape rather than acts to relish. The Bakers' cruelty is presented as tragic corruption caused by infection, and the tone treats the gore and dread as tools of tension rather than celebration.
Details
- Developer
- CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
- Publisher
- CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
- Released
- Jan 23, 2017
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