The best adventure games like Resident Evil 2 are Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil Village and Dead Space. Below are 12, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to adventure costs you.
Filtering to adventure means the place and the story are what you want back, not the challenge. It is the right filter when the thing you remember is where you were rather than what you did.
What you get: A world with a reason to wander it, and writing that survives being read rather than skipped.
What made Resident Evil 2 worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the adventure part of that answer, and only the adventure part.
The action end of the same series, and the most purely enjoyable of them.
The modern entry, and the most varied of the recent run.
Scarier, and strategic dismemberment changes every encounter.
The other pillar of the genre, and the one to play for the story.
A small indie that rebuilds classic survival horror exactly.
Survival horror welded to a detective story, and far stranger.
By Resident Evil's creator, and the closest thing to a spiritual sequel.
Fixed cameras and tank-adjacent controls, made deliberately.
Horror that unsettles by idea rather than by ammunition count.
Same era, same New York dread, with an RPG underneath.
Capcom doing the same thing with dinosaurs, and it works.
If the puzzle-box building was the real appeal.
Mechanical depth. Several of the best adventure games have combat that is deliberately unsatisfying, because they want your attention somewhere else.
The full list is on games like Resident Evil 2 — 12 picks, no genre filter.
Resident Evil 4. The action end of the same series, and the most purely enjoyable of them.
No. Resident Evil 2 released on the PlayStation, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
Anywhere the story and the place matter more than the skill ceiling — point-and-click, walking sims, narrative thrillers and most open worlds. The label alone tells you very little, which is why each pick here says what it actually is.
They split hard. Open-world adventures run to a hundred hours; the narrative ones are often finishable in an evening, and the short ones are usually the better written.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full Resident Evil 2 list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is adventure — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the adventure guide for where to start in the genre generally.