Resident Evil Requiem is one of 2026’s best-selling and best-reviewed games, and it put returning hero Leon S. Kennedy through the wringer. After fighting his way through a hospital overrun with zombies and braving bus-sized arachnids in Raccoon City, the handsomest man in video games deserves to get away from it all for a little while. At least, that’s what the director of Resident Evil 2 — and the creator of the game’s protagonists, Leon and Claire —seems to think. In a post on X, Hideki Kamiya told a fan who asked about a “continuation of the two grown-up characters” that he’d like to give Leon a gentler experience this time around.
“If I made it, it’d turn into a game where retired Leon goes fishing in the countryside, forages for wild veggies, bakes bread, walks the dog, tends a home garden, drives 50 km to the general store for supplies, invites old buddies over for a barbecue, fixes the neighbor grandma’s oven at her request, sells homemade lemonade at the local festival… but that’d be cool, right…?” Kamiya said in the post, via machine translation. The post attracted more than 1.7 million views and 16,000 likes, enough to prompt Kamiya to jokingly reach out to his former employers: “Capcom, there are a lot of voices out there saying they want something like a Biohazard that’s not scary, so if you have some free time, please consider making it… I want to play it too…”
Capcom hasn’t taken a swing at the farming-sim or life-sim genre yet, but given the company is currently on a generational hot streak, a game like this — especially linked to a beloved franchise like Resident Evil — would probably be a banger. We know Leon would be adept at chopping logs thanks to his hatchet work in Requiem, and he already knows a thing or two about combining herbs. I suspect his transition from STARS to Stardew Valley might be a more natural one than it seems at first glance.
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