Resident Evil choose your own adventure browser game is ridiculously challenging

Capcom has released a Resident Evil choose your own adventure browser game and it’s so, so, so difficult. Only seven people have made it out ‘alive’. 

The ‘Escape for Halloween’ game’s premise is that you were on your way to a party celebrating the spooky season, but then a wrong’un dinked you on the noggin and you’re now trapped in an Umbrella research facility. There are nine scenarios with a range of two to four choices, for example, do you open a door, check the surroundings, or walk past the door? Each situation features screenshots from Capcom's asymmetric multiplayer game Project Resistance, but I haven’t seen all nine possible scenes or what happens next.

Why? Because the browser game is deceptively simple and ridiculously challenging. I was chomped by a Cerberus dog. I triggered a trap and was shredded by a machine gun. I was set upon by a zombie. Following exactly in my footsteps, relying on survival horror tropes, or choosing at random, I won’t make it further than the sixth screen. But, I can’t give up. It’s a condition, my GP said.

【ESCAPE FOR HALLOWEEN】

脱出成功！！

「無事パーティー会場にたどり着いた」
jqz_9 さんは7番目に到着しました。

CLEAR_ID:02CWHvbh

https://t.co/Q9jjRysEm5 #CLEAR_No00007 #ハロウィン #Pレジスタンス #バイオハザード

— ぽとふ (@jqz_9) October 29, 2019

Like I said, only a lucky seven people have survived the game so far. As Project Resistance underwent beta testing on the PlayStation 4 earlier this month, ‘Escape for Halloween’ is just an extra feature for those who didn’t get to play, and it’s a silly bit of fun. I wouldn’t expect it to be hiding any secrets about the new multiplayer game, but Capcom has tucked away references to its games in the strangest of places.

Players did hear the Resident Evil 3 save room theme in Project Resistance, sparking speculation that Capcom is considering a remake. Yoshiaki Hirabayashi said that it would be dependent on fan demand, and given that lots of people piped up, thinking Project Resistance was going to be a single-player installment in the Resident Evil storyline, perhaps the developer has been swayed.

Project Resistance will launch for PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One.