The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead: Season One (also known as The Walking Dead: The Game) is an episodic interactive drama graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games. Based on Robert Kirkman's The…
The Walking Dead is an adventure developed by Telltale Games, released 24 April 2012 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. The main story takes about 13.3 hrs to finish.
What The Walking Dead is
The Walking Dead is an adventure game developed by Telltale Games and released in 2012. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Telltale Tool.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Play as Lee Everett, a convicted criminal, who has been given a second chance at life in a world devastated by the undead. With corpses returning to life and survivors stopping at nothing to maintain their own safety, protecting an orphaned girl named Clementine may offer him redemption in a world gone to hell.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, drama, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 48 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Walking Dead series
The Walking Dead is the first of 35 entries we hold in the The Walking Dead series. The next entry was The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct in 2013. Its critic score of 84 is 14 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Ch 2: Retribution at 85.
How it was received
The Walking Dead holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 1,757 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 13.3 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent, 3 GB RAM and ATI or nVidia card with 512 MB RAM (not supported on Intel integrated graphics). At 3GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Walking Dead launched on 24 April 2012, within three weeks of The Walking Dead: Season 1, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, Max Payne 3 and Diablo III. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: The Walking Dead: Season 1, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, Max Payne 3, Diablo III.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Walking Dead yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
All media
Characters
All 30
Dlc
Quick answers
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