Thirty years of survival horror, one list. Polygon has published a ranking of every mainline Resident Evil game, spanning from the 1996 original all the way to this year's Resident Evil Requiem.

It's a fitting Halloween exercise for a series that has reinvented itself repeatedly — fixed-camera mansion crawls, the action-heavy era, the first-person pivot, and a run of acclaimed remakes that brought Leon and Claire's Raccoon City nightmare to a new generation.

With Requiem now part of the mainline canon, the debate over where each entry lands is livelier than it's been in years. Wherever your personal favorite falls, the ranking is a reminder of how few franchises have stayed this relevant across three decades of horror gaming.