We have Resident Evil at home.
Every so often I see something on Steam that genuinely boggles my mind, and the fact that Biohazard Village made it to launch and even managed to stay up for a full twenty four hours is one of those times. If you’re looking at the title and the header image and thinking “I didn’t know the latest Resident Evil had launched,” well you’re exactly the kind of witness Capcom’s lawyers probably want in court.
Biohazard Village has no relation to Biohazard Village, the upcoming Resident Evil game. This might be confusing since this Biohazard Village also has the highlighted VIII in its logo. In the Capcom version that’s to signify that it is Resident Evil 8. In this game it’s to signify trademark infringement.
Biohazard Village went up on September 1 and by the end of the day on September 2 it was gone. Forest Games has yet to comment. The game itself is an asset flip of the pre-made The House Unity package, because the folks at Forest Games are hack frauds.
Valve has of course made no comment about the game’s removal. Neither has Capcom. It hasn’t been marked as banned, which tells us it was likely taken down due to a legal complaint by Capcom itself. Biohazard Village will not be the first game to be removed due to intentional naming similarities to Resident Evil titles and if Steam Direct has anything to say about it it will not be the last.
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