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The Walking Dead

A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.

Developer
Telltale Games
Publisher
Skybound Games
Franchise
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Release date
Apr 24, 2012
Store page updated
Oct 23, 2024
Price
$14.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

95.1/ 100

Based on 437 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 97% of 428
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 80,621
“great experience with so much fun”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.29
Strategy +2.48 · Depth of builds, tactics, and meaningful choices
“muitas alternativas e decisões” (7)
jogo ótimo e incrivel muitas alternativas e decisões, jogo perfeito porem chorei com o final.

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+4.44
Story +4.61 · Plot, quests, writing, and the ending
“choices are unforgettable, story gets darker and more personal” (309)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+1.44
Replayability +2.18 · Reasons to play again — runs, randomness, New Game+

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+2.71
Visuals +2.45 · Graphics, art style, and animation

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
-0.17

Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.

Playing together -0.17 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

🔒 2 more indicators

Pricing & Fairness
+0.68

Not enough data — only 6% of reviews mention this.

Pricing +0.79 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Support
-1.00

Not enough data — only 6% of reviews mention this.

Stability -0.94 · Crashes, freezes, save loss, and game-breaking bugs

🔒 2 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
80%85%90%95%100%
Apr 2012Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 428 reviews, peak 30/day
02550
Aug 21Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 434 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English39%
  • Russian19%
  • Spanish12%
  • Portuguese10%
  • Turkish5%
  • Chinese5%
  • Other10%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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