Wake up, the Residents are Evil again. Well, what I mean to say is that the oldest Evil Residents, the most classic of Resident Evils, have now hit Steam in the nicely revamped form they took on when GOG brought them back to PC a couple of years ago. Yep, the versions of Resis 1, 2, and 3 that’ve just hit Valve’s storefront include GOG’s handy tweaks to help them run in all singing and all dancing fashion on modern hardware.

Steam listings for these GOG-co developed versions of 1996’s Resident Evil, 1998’s Resident Evil 2, and 1999’s Resident Evil 3 Nemesis have all popped up today, April 2nd. Joining them in making the jump from GOG is classic RPG Breath of Fire IV.

As of writing, they’re all on sale at 50% off, meaning you can grab each of them for £4/$5/€5 until 6PM BST/1PM ET/10AM PDT on April 15th. For your money, you get versions of the games featuring a bunch of handy tweaks and additions GOG have made to make them easier or better to play on today’s computers. The original Resi, for example, comes with the following:

• All 4 localisations of the game included (English, German, French, Japanese)
• Improved DirectX game renderer
• New rendering options (Windowed Mode, Vertical Synchronization Control, Gamma Correction, Integer Scaling, Anti-Aliasing and more)
• Improved timing of the cutscenes
• Improved game video player
• Improved game registry settings
• Issue-free game exit and task switching

They reportedly work pretty fine on Steam Deck too, provided you’re willing to set up custom inputs or use some that the community have set up.

There is one difference compared to the versions on GOG itself, though. All four games’ Steam iterations come with third party Enigma DRM. That’d be the same make of DRM which Capcom recently pulled from the Resident Evil 4 Remake, with Digital Foundry reporting that the anti-piracy software was impacting the game’s performance.

If you want an idea of just how foundational an experience playing these classic Resis can be, I direct you to Dave Irwin (RPS in peace)’s recollection of turning off the first one multiple times as a ten year old. It’s ok Dave, DRM scares me too.