Two downloadable content scenarios were released, Not a Hero and End of Zoe.

The team took inspiration from the 1981 film The Evil Dead, scaled back the game to one location, and used a first-person perspective to immerse players.

A year prior to its announcement at E3 2016, it was presented as a virtual reality demo called Kitchen. The development was led by Koshi Nakanishi, director of the 2012 Nintendo 3DS game Resident Evil: Revelations. Resident Evil 7 is the first full-length game to use Capcom's in-house RE Engine. It is the first main Resident Evil game to use a first-person view. Resident Evil 7 diverges from the more action-oriented Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6, returning to the franchise's survival horror roots, emphasizing exploration. The player controls Ethan Winters as he searches for his long-missing wife in a derelict plantation occupied by an infected family, solving puzzles and fighting enemies. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is a 2017 survival horror game developed and published by Capcom.

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