After 24 years, Capcom horror game Onimusha Warlords is suddenly much harder

Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Alien Isolation, and Dead Space get all the credit, but if we’re talking about the history of horror games, it pays to remember Onimusha Warlords. It’s creepy, gory, and exploits the same fixed camera as its spiritual predecessors, but it’s also faster, more energetic, and more combat driven - its Sengoku-era castle is an imaginative far cry from the horror genre’s standard haunted towns and spaceships. Remastered and re-released back in 2018, while Capcom is focusing on Monster Hunter Wilds and, we hope, Resident Evil 9, it hasn’t forgotten Onimusha. 24 years since the game originally arrived, it’s just been updated with a punishing new difficulty mode. Continue reading After 24 years, Capcom horror game Onimusha Warlords is suddenly much harder MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best horror games, Best old games, Best survival games

Apr 23, 2025 - 11:48

After 24 years, Capcom horror game Onimusha Warlords is suddenly much harder

Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Alien Isolation, and Dead Space get all the credit, but if we’re talking about the history of horror games, it pays to remember Onimusha Warlords. It’s creepy, gory, and exploits the same fixed camera as its spiritual predecessors, but it’s also faster, more energetic, and more combat driven - its Sengoku-era castle is an imaginative far cry from the horror genre’s standard haunted towns and spaceships. Remastered and re-released back in 2018, while Capcom is focusing on Monster Hunter Wilds and, we hope, Resident Evil 9, it hasn’t forgotten Onimusha. 24 years since the game originally arrived, it’s just been updated with a punishing new difficulty mode.

Continue reading After 24 years, Capcom horror game Onimusha Warlords is suddenly much harder

MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best horror games, Best old games, Best survival games