Perhaps you recently tried booting up the mobile versions of the Resident Evil 4, 7 and Village and discovered something surprising, you needed an internet connection. Simply put, you're not the only one. The reason why it was probably surprising is that it's really rare for single player games to require internet connection. If we're talking about mobile games in general, then it would be very common for an internet connection to be required, but not for a single player game like Resident Evil.

After Capcom's recent update to the Resident Evil 4, 7, and village on IOS, Capcom dropped an update note for each of the games, stating: "Due to changes to the startup process, an internet connection is now required when starting this app." Now, this is somewhat strange considering the fact that it would be odd for Resident Evil, being a single player game, would need the internet connection for data collection or DRM checks, as some suggest on Reddit. And would be strange because, there are lots of mobile games like Resident Evil in mobile game stores, and they don't require being connected to the internet like Resident Evil.A number of players on Reddit requested a refund due to the update, but there would probably not be many people considering the amount of gamers who bought this game. In July, according to VG247, App Magic stated that there were around 2000 units, of the IOS version of Resident Evil 7, sold. It wouldn't hurt to mention that this amount of sales was notably under 2000 sold units and not above it. Although it's pure speculation, I think that, considering the fact that the cost of the Resident Evil games on mobile is worth as much as the console, it affected the sales performance negatively.