History YMMV / ResidentEvil7Biohazard

** Eveline. She's an ArtificialHuman with a loveless background whose entire motivation in the story is to have a family. Some players will use this to insist that she's a tragic {{Woobie}} AntiVillain who only does what she does because she's scared and lonely, ignoring that she's a [[SmugSnake gloating]], tantrum-throwing monster who kills countless people in cruel ways for petty reasons, and whose desire to have a family was possibly a result of her ''design'' to ease infiltration. The deaths of the Sewer Gators crew? Mia returning to normal just as Ethan lands a killing blow on her? Her cutting off his hand and trying to kill him with a chainsaw while cackling? The Bakers' serial kidnappings and murders of innocent people? All of it was done by her. As another entry put it, Eveline "just wanting a family" is an understatement on par with saying that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer Jeffrey Dahmer]] "just wanted [[ALoveToDismember companionship]] and [[IAmAHumanitarian a good meal]]", and her [[ItsAllAboutMe "Why does everyone hate me?"]] at the end comes off as her simply PlayingTheVictimCard rather than her being ObliviouslyEvil, after she'd established herself throughout the entire story as being intelligent enough to know that she's causing horrible death and suffering with her whims, and taking very obvious delight in it every step of the way.

** Eveline. She's an ArtificialHuman with a loveless background whose entire motivation in the story is to have a family. Some players will use this to insist that she's a tragic {{Woobie}} AntiVillain who only does what she does because she's scared and lonely, ignoring that she's a [[SmugSnake gloating]], tantrum-throwing monster who kills countless people in cruel ways for petty reasons, and whose desire to have a family was possibly a result of her ''design'' to ease infiltration.

** [[YouDontLookLikeYou Chris's look]] in the game... ''wasn't'' well received by some, to the point that they declare this Chris to be an imposter. Thankfully, the developers took the hint, [[AuthorsSavingThrow and went right back to a newer version of his muscular look]] from ''[=RE5=]'' and ''[=RE6=]''.

** A criticism the game faced is that it has little-to-no connection to the events of previous installments, outside of the appearance of Chris Redfield and several call-backs in a rather short DLC (as far as we can tell). As such, many fans feel like the game comes off more like a reboot or spinoff than a mainline sequel game.

** The ''End of Zoe'' DLC, rather than have the slow and careful inventory management style of the rest of the game, has you play as an Awesome BoxingBattler hillbilly that punches the monsters to death and shows absolutely no fear through the entire story.

* ParanoiaFuel: The silent, wheelchair-bound old woman who sporadically appears throughout the house. She doesn't do anything. say anything, and you can't interact with her at all. She just sits there, watching. [[spoiler: And this feeling only gets much worse with TheReveal toward the end of the game.]]

** The ending of [[spoiler:Ethan and Mia making it out alive together to continue their relationship thanks to a timely rescue by Chris Redfield]] becomes this during the beginning of ''Village'', [[spoiler:where Chris seems to raid Ethan's home and murder Mia in cold blood after everything the pair had gone through in this game.]] However, the blow is softened by the game later revealing [[spoiler:that "Mia" was actually Mother Miranda disguised as her, with the real Mia is alive and well]].

* RealismInducedHorror: Lucas isn't too far behind [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 Chief Irons]] in this department, despite operating on a much smaller scale than the likes of the [[MegaCorp Umbrella Corporation]], Wesker, and the [[TheCult Los Illuminados]]. In real life, you'd probably be very unlikely to run into mad scientists or a virus-enhanced superhuman, but Lucas could really be any weird kid you knew in school, who happens to have predatory, malignant tendencies just waiting for the right situation to unleash them.

* EvilIsCool: The Baker Family very quickly endeared themselves to fans as some of the most memorable, entertaining and intimidating villains the has had in quite a long time. Jack by being a bombastic CombatSadomasochist, Marguerite with her terrifying HairTriggerTemper and PestController powers and Lucas for essentially being the series' [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] version of [[Franchise/{{Saw}} Jigsaw]].

** A few players have snickered at "If you want the [D-Series] head, feel free to come by any time and I'll give it to you".