Capcom's RE Engine is the gift that keeps on giving: Resident Evil Requiem runs surprisingly well on the Steam Deck

Capcom’s RE Engine is the gift that keeps on giving: Resident Evil Requiem runs surprisingly well on the Steam Deck | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Resident Evil Resident Evil Requiem review: A jack of all trades Hardware Resident Evil Requiem PC performance analysis: Great visuals and decent frame rates all round, though path tracing’s an obvious frame rate killer Games The best PC games to play right now Handheld Gaming PCs Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses Resident Evil Here’s the Resident Evil Requiem release time for your region Handheld Gaming PCs Abxylute 3D One handheld gaming PC review Card Game If you’ve ever had a crippling Vampire Survivors or Slay the Spire habit, avoid Vampire Crawlers at all costs The Witcher Reigns The Witcher review: Pick a path FPS After getting Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora on PC Game Pass, unlocking its ‘Unobtanium’ max graphics mode, and then upgrading those stunning visuals even more with mods, I’m convinced this is the ‘But can it run Crysis?’ FPS PC gamers should install today Horror Can Resident Evil Requiem finally make good on Resident Evil 6’s best and most botched idea? 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Subscribe to our newsletter I should be on the beach, but instead I’m playing Resident Evil Requiem.Here I am in Hawaii, sunny skies and steps from the ocean, and as soon as it gets dark, I’m thinking about making my way back to my hotel room so I can sit in the dark and play more of the Resident Evil that our reviewer Elie Gould praised for “wrapping all the best elements of previous Resident Evil games into one.”So far, I agree, but mostly I’ve been marvelling at just how playable this shiny new 2026 game is on the Steam Deck. Four years on from the gaming handheld’s release, it’s becoming more and more common for new triple-A games to be a bit too demanding of the Deck’s modest hardware—even 30 fps can be out of reach. Related articles Resident Evil Requiem PC performance analysis: Great visuals and decent frame rates all round, though path tracing’s an obvious frame rate killer Resident Evil Requiem review: A jack of all trades 13 years after the disappointment of Resident Evil 6, Capcom is finally fusing survival horror and all-out action again—and this time I think it worked When the Deck came out, the 2019 Resident Evil 2 Remake was one of the best games on it. I wrote at the time that “with a mix of low and mid settings I was able to run it at 60 fps, which was a genuine ‘wow, this really works?’ moment for such a relatively new and gorgeous game.”Capcom’s in-house RE Engine developed a reputation for looking really nice while still scaling down impressively well to low-end hardware. Unfortunately, in the last couple of years, the RE Engine has also developed a reputation for not being great at everything Capcom has used it for—specifically Monster Hunter Wilds and Dragon’s Dogma 2, open-world games which suffered from major performance issues that took months and months of updates to improve.But you know what