Resident Evil Requiem players have spent 11,000 years in-game and killed nearly 4 billion zombies in ten days

Capcom has launched a website Resident Evil Net, where you can compare your stats in Resident Evil Requiem against the global totals. The combined numbers from the game's first ten days on sale are staggering – collective playtime has surpassed 11,171 years.

At first glance the figure looks like a typo, but the math checks out. Requiem has already sold over five million copies, and if each of those players put in just 18 hours, the combined total clears 10,000 years. Alinea Analytics' data backs up Capcom's official numbers – 36.5% of players have spent more than 15 hours in Requiem, and 0.5% have already logged more than 50.

Resident Evil Net is also tracking zombie and monster kills. So many players were swinging Leon's hatchet at launch that the in-game kill count matched the entire US population within just three days.

By day ten, that counter had reached 3.7 billion and is still climbing. There's even a progress bar tracking kills against the world population – and players aren't even halfway there yet.

Resident Evil Requiem has been an unmitigated hit for Capcom. During its launch weekend, the game came close to 350,000 concurrent players on Steam, shattering the series' previous record by a wide margin.

Physical copies sold out completely – something only Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 had managed in recent memory, though Pokemon Pokopia appears to have joined that exclusive club on the back of its unexpected popularity.