The Resident Evil Franchise Has One Unexplored Genre That’s a Perfect Fit for a Spin-Off

In the nearly 30 years of history across the entire Resident Evil franchise, most of the series’ spin-offs tend to play it safe when it comes to genres. It makes sense that most of the non-mainline games in the series would lean more heavily into the third-person shooter aspects of Resident Evil‘s gameplay and afford players less restriction than the resource management and puzzle solving of the original trilogy, but the series’ continual ventures into action game territory has made most of the more recent spin-offs feel somewhat redundant. It’s time for a new kind of Resident Evil spin-off that leans more heavily into the careful encounter design of the original game via the turn-based tactics genre.