Capcom has celebrated Resident Evil Requiem passing another sales milestone, and provided its director with two giant cakes to mark the occasion.
Resident Evil Requiem has now sold more than 7 million copies since its launch last month. That’s up by a million on our last official tally, confirmed in mid-April.
Requiem has been breaking sales records for the franchise since its release, when it shifted a stunning 5 million copies in just five days — making it the fastest-selling Resident Evil game in the whole franchise.
Now, director Koshi Nakanishi has revealed Requiem’s latest sales achievement via a story on his Instagram, which shows staff members celebrating alongside two towering Resident Evil Requiem-themed cakes. A Leon cake features black icing, blueberries and raspberries, alongside what looks to be a biscuit-based cake topper shaped like Leon wielding a pistol. A further decoration shows the star’s trusty hatchet.
A second cake features Leon’s co-protagonist Grace Ashcroft. This features white frosting, and a decoration showing what looks to be a zombie’s hand reaching out of the cake’s second tier. “Welcome to 7m Leon! ” reads the writing on one cake. “Grace Congratulations on 7 million!” reads the other.
Resident Evil Reqiuem Director Koshi Nakanishi celebrated Resident Evil Requiem hitting 7 million units with a party and cake.
He posted this on his personal Instagram. pic.twitter.com/I4RtRuYrW7
— Stealth (@Stealth40k) April 24, 2026
Happily, Resident Evil Requiem fans still have plenty more to come from the game, including next month’s mysterious content update that players expect will add a new version of the franchise’s The Mercenaries mode — especially after datamine leak revealed tense new music. Following that, a full-blown story DLC is also in the works, though sounds further off.
Capcom’s sales success with Resident Evil Requiem is well deserved — it is a fantastic game, and one we here at IGN bestowed with a 9/10 score, saying that it “successfully splices two separate strains of survival horror together into the one highly infectious new mutation.”
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