Resident Evil 7 Gold Edition & Village Gold Edition

I have spent more hours than I should admit tracking Ethan Winters across a mold-ridden Louisiana farmhouse and a snow-blanketed Eastern European village, and if you asked me to rank the best two-game narrative arcs in modern horror, this bundle would land high on that list without much argument. What you are getting here is the full, definitive version of both Resident Evil 7 Biohazard and Resident Evil Village, stacked into one package that leaves very little on the cutting room floor. Resident Evil 7 Gold Edition brings the base game alongside the Season Pass, which means the Banned Footage Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 side content, plus End of Zoe and the Not a Hero campaign starring Chris Redfield. RE7 is where Capcom made its sharpest creative bet in years: first-person perspective, a single claustrophobic family home, and a horror tone that leans on gross-out dread rather than action spectacle. The Baker family are genuinely unnerving antagonists, the resource scarcity keeps tension high, and the writing is lean enough that the plot holds up without padding. End of Zoe in particular is worth playing if you want a tonal palette cleanser that leans into something almost darkly comic. Resident Evil Village Gold Edition is where the bundle earns its RPG-curious audience too. Village is a direct narrative sequel to 7, picking up Ethan and Mia a few years later before everything collapses again. The structure shifts: more open-ish exploration, a merchant system, weapon upgrading, and a cast of Lords who each anchor a distinct chapter with their own horror subgenre. Lady Dimitrescu gets the cultural attention, but Karl Heisenberg and Donna Beneviento are doing the heavy lifting narratively. The Winters Expansion DLC adds three meaningful layers: a third-person mode that replays the full base campaign from over-the-shoulder, the Shadows of Rose story campaign following a grown-up Rose Winters, and Mercenaries Additional Orders which brings in playable characters including Heisenberg and Lady Dimitrescu herself alongside new Bloody River and Bloody Village stages. Shadows of Rose is the piece most likely to divide people. It is a relatively short epilogue, and the horror mechanics it introduces feel lighter than the base game, but for anyone invested in the Winters family across both titles, the payoff matters. The criticisms worth naming: Village's pacing drops noticeably in its third act, and the shift toward more conventional action combat after the Beneviento section is a real tonal lurch. The Mercenaries mode, even expanded, is best treated as a bonus rather than a headliner. RE7's DLC content is also uneven. Banned Footage Vol. 2 is stronger than Vol. 1, but neither reaches the quality floor of the base game. These are not deal-breakers, but they keep the bundle short of being flawless. For anyone coming to either game fresh, the sequencing is built in. Play 7 first, then Village, and the emotional weight of the finale actually lands. For returning players who own the base games but skipped the DLC, the Gold Editions exist precisely for you. Two coherent, well-produced horror campaigns with enough mechanical variety to feel distinct from each other, plus a serious roster of bonus content. The Metacritic score of 86 was earned.

Monika · Scout Team

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