Last updated: 21 August 2026

Resident Evil Requiem Walkthrough The Full Area-by-Area Order

Resident Evil Requiem doesn't give you a numbered chapter list anywhere in the game or on Capcom's own marketing — there's no chapter select menu, and no in-game screen ever names "Chapter 4" or similar. What the game does have is a clear, fixed progression through four story zones and roughly ten distinct areas, alternating between Grace Ashcroft's survival-horror sections and Leon Kennedy's action-driven ones. This walkthrough lays out that real order, zone by zone, without inventing chapter titles Capcom never gave the game.

01Does Resident Evil Requiem Have Named Chapters?

No — not officially. Capcom's own materials and the game itself never break the story into a numbered "Chapter 1, Chapter 2" structure the way older Resident Evil titles sometimes did, and there's no chapter select once you finish the story. Some third-party sites have published their own chapter numbering with invented titles, but none of that comes from Capcom, and different sites don't even agree with each other on the names.

What's real and consistent across walkthroughs is the order of areas you physically travel through. That's what this guide maps out — the zones and locations in sequence, not a chapter list that doesn't exist.

02The Order You'll Play Through

The story moves through four broad zones, always in this order. Within each zone you'll move through several distinct areas or sub-areas:

1. Wrenwood Hotel (Grace) — the opening area. Grace is investigating her mother's death and gets her first look at what Victor Gideon, the game's recurring antagonist, is really involved in.
2. Wrenwood's streets (Leon) — control switches to Leon immediately after, chasing Gideon through a city already turning dangerous after he abducts Grace from the hotel.
3. Rhodes Hill — Chronic Care Center (Grace and Leon, alternating) — the largest section of the game, split across a main wing, a basement, and an outdoor courtyard area. A recurring enemy patrols these halls throughout and can't be permanently dealt with early on. Partway through, Gideon has the facility locked into a "Code 6" mass-hysteria alert that infects staff and patients — the section rewards quiet routes over confrontation.
4. Rhodes Hill — Water Treatment Plant (Grace) — a smaller industrial sub-area that follows the Care Center.
5. Raccoon City — East Raccoon City (Leon) — the game shifts into more open urban combat as Leon pushes into the city proper.
6. Raccoon City — Raccoon City Center (Leon) — a central hub-style area with heavier enemy presence, including a detour into a 1990-set flashback inside a Raccoon City orphanage.
7. Raccoon City — Side Street (Leon) — back in the present, a tense chase through a side area as a Tyrant repeatedly breaks through walls after Leon.
8. ARK (Grace and Leon, together) — the multi-phase finale facility, where the story converges and the game's ending choice plays out.

Exact sub-area names vary a little between third-party guides — some call the Care Center's outdoor section a "courtyard," others a "garden" — but the overall order above is consistent across every walkthrough we cross-checked.

03Grace vs. Leon: Who You Play, and When

Capcom's director Akifumi Nakanishi described playtime pre-release as split "almost equally" between the two protagonists, and that holds up in practice: Grace opens the game alone, Leon follows alone, then the two alternate through Rhodes Hill before Leon takes the lead through the whole Raccoon City stretch, including the orphanage flashback and the Tyrant chase. Both converge for the ARK finale.

The two halves play very differently on purpose. Grace's sections lean into slow, tense survival horror with limited resources and a stalking threat you're meant to avoid. Leon's sections are faster and combat-forward, closer to the over-the-shoulder action Resident Evil 4 popularized. If you played the free demo, the Care Center sections you saw there are the same ones you'll hit early in the full game — just a slice of a much longer sequence.

04How Long Is a Full Walkthrough?

A single first playthrough runs roughly 9-14 hours depending on your pace and difficulty setting, based on how outlets that timed full runs reported it. Because the game has no chapter select and many trophies are missable, going for full completion takes considerably longer — realistically 25-30 hours across two to three separate playthroughs. See our trophy and achievement guide for the save strategy that substitutes for the chapter select the game doesn't have, and our difficulty guide if you're still deciding what to start on.