Daymare: 1998

The events of the game begin on August 20, 1998, at Aegis Laboratory, a secret government facility built on the island of North Blue Two, which is part of the Northfall Island archipelago located just off the coast of Washington. Subsequently, the action moves to Keen Sight, a small and peaceful town in Idaho surrounded by an endless forest. The game presents three different, unique perspectives on how the story unfolds: that of the operative code named Liev, an elite soldier of the special unit H.A.D.E.S. (Hexacore Advanced Division for Extraction and Search), the helicopter pilot Cpt. David "Raven" Hale and Samuel Walker, a forest ranger from the Vermilion Forest that surrounds the Redcrest Mountains of Keen Sight.

A few hours after the latest emergency transmission from Aegis regarding the leak of an extremely lethal experimental BC weapon, the Department of Defense sends two teams of H.A.D.E.S. operatives, who depart from Hexacore Biogenetics' Keen Sight HQ, to investigate the cause of the accident, recover top-secret research and samples, and erase all evidence of what had happened before the automatic security system cleanses the entire compound.

The project was born as a result of work on Resident Evil 2 Reborn, a fan-made remake. Given the attention it garnered, the team received a call directly from Capcom who officially invited them to their Osaka HQ in 2015. They asked Invader Studios to cease the development of the game, which resulted in its cancellation. After the meeting, and at the suggestion from the producers of Capcom themselves, the team therefore decided to create an original IP later called Daymare: 1998.

The director of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis agreed to join the project as Associate Producer and Resident Evil artist Satoshi Nakai joined the team. It was officially announced on September 12, 2016. To finance the project, a campaign via Kickstarter and a special PC demo called Daymare Challenge was announced on February 15, 2017, in which one of the game's creatures (Melting Man) was closed off in an area, a later part of the final game. Although financing was not secured, the campaign helped make Daymare: 1998 a project even more well-known to the public.

Daymare: 1998 received "mixed or average reviews" from critics, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received weak approval, being recommended by only 18% of critics.

IGN Italy gave it a 6.8, finding it to be a difficult game, which tried to live up to the hype and ambition of its developers while at the same time presenting very good ideas that deserved greater attention. The experience was mentioned as the one with flaws that often outweighed the strengths, with the possibility that a sequel would find its rightful place.