The early levels of Capcom’s Resident Evil: Requiem rank among the franchise’s most terrifying, dropping protagonist Grace into a powerless, pitch-black abandoned hospital armed with nothing but a lighter.

She must restore power by tracking down a tool, but to get it, she has to sneak past a towering, mutated infected girl that charges at the slightest sound. Just when it seems safe, the creature slips into the ceiling and delivers a brutal jump scare as she reaches for the fuse.

She’s not only horrific to...