The Horror Factor
It wouldn’t be a Resident Evil game if it wasn’t a little bit scary, and it’s pretty easy to determine a winner in this category.
You’ve probably already guessed it, but Resident Evil 7 is hands down the scarier game of the two. While the European village and castle settings of Resident Evil Village can be pretty unsettling at times, it doesn’t come close to the dilapidated Baker estate.
The Baker house, as well as the greenhouse and boathouse, feels claustrophobic and eerie every step of the way. The game also does a good job of presenting the Bakers as terrifying serial killers in the first half, which makes them a lot scarier than the supernatural mumbo jumbo vampires and werewolves we get in Village.
And while the mold monsters are generic and we wish the enemy variety was better, those mold guys are also way creepier than werewolves, of which we’ve seen a ton of before in other games and media. Couple that with the fact that Ethan is a little more experienced and less afraid in Village, and this game just feels way less scarier than 7.
Winner: Resident Evil 7.
