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10 Best The Walking Dead Games
Discover ten The Walking Dead games and collections, from Telltale adventures to VR survival, with spoiler-free guidance and official trailers.
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The Walking Dead has produced narrative adventures, tactical mobile sessions, and VR games that make searching a drawer feel surprisingly urgent. These ten picks cover those different formats. Telltale’s four main seasons are treated as individual story entries; its Definitive Series compilation is a purchase option that bundles them with Michonne, rather than an extra ranked game. Headset requirements and mobile purchase systems are identified separately. The descriptions keep major decisions and character outcomes out of the way.
The list distinguishes story seasons, standalone games, VR hardware, and mobile progression. For a related angle, see our Best Zombie and Infected Games on PS5 guide.
10. The Walking Dead: Destinies
Destinies revisits situations associated with the television series through an action game built around changing selected outcomes. That alternate-route premise is the reason to consider it; it does not make the game interchangeable with Telltale’s character-focused seasons. Combat and progression provide the structure around the familiar setting. Pick it only if exploring a different version of those events is the part that interests you, and keep the specific branches unspoiled before deciding whether to follow them.
Official promotional video — PlayStation. YouTube may require age confirmation. Watch on YouTube.
9. The Escapists: The Walking Dead
A familiar group of survivors meets a very different visual style in The Escapists: The Walking Dead. Rick and the others appear in a top-down adventure built around scavenging, crafting, and completing objectives while keeping the group safe. It is a useful alternative when you want the setting without another choice-driven episode or a first-person action game. Managing a routine matters as much as handling a sudden threat, and the compact presentation gives recognizable locations a fresh, approachable feel.
Official promotional video — Team17. Watch on YouTube.
8. The Walking Dead: Onslaught
Onslaught uses AMC’s version of The Walking Dead as the basis for a VR action game. Handling weapons and confronting the infected are more central to its appeal than Telltale-style branching conversations. It is a distinct game from Saints & Sinners, with different priorities rather than a new edition of that release. Choose it if that connection to the television series interests you and your headset supports the listed version. Its strongest reason for inclusion is that particular angle on the license.
Official promotional video — PlayStation. YouTube may require age confirmation. Watch on YouTube.
7. The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2: Retribution
Retribution returns the Tourist to New Orleans for another VR survival adventure. Scavenging and handling equipment remain central, while the story gives the return trip its own pressures and characters. It follows Saints & Sinners, so familiarity with the first game provides useful context. Choose it as a continuation of that particular VR routine, and match the purchase to your headset. The shared series name does not make the flat-screen Walking Dead games equivalent products.
Official promotional video — Meta VR. Watch on YouTube.
6. The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
New Orleans gives the outbreak a setting where scavenging, crafting, and choosing what to carry become physical VR tasks. Your character, the Tourist, deals with people whose priorities can be as troubling as the infected outside. This is a headset-based survival adventure rather than a flat-screen Telltale story. Pick it for exploration and practical resource decisions in virtual reality, and check the specific headset edition before assuming that every store listing works with your hardware.
Official promotional video — PlayStation Europe. Watch on YouTube.
5. The Walking Dead: Michonne
Michonne’s focused Telltale adventure explores a difficult stretch in the comic character’s life. Conversations and decisions shape a story that is separate from the main Clementine seasons, making it an alternative perspective rather than another numbered installment. It suits someone looking for a shorter narrative commitment within the same harsh world. Choose it for its central character and contained structure, with the important emotional details left for the episodes themselves to reveal.
Official promotional video — PlayStation. YouTube may require age confirmation. Watch on YouTube.
4. The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Clementine is responsible for protecting AJ while trying to imagine a more lasting future. The setting and relationships build directly on the earlier Telltale seasons, making this a conclusion rather than a convenient first chapter. Exploration and choices give the characters room to respond to one another between dangerous encounters. Choose it after following the preceding story, and keep the descriptions light. Knowing the setup is helpful; knowing how the relationships develop is not.
Official promotional video — PlayStation. YouTube may require age confirmation. Watch on YouTube.
3. The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Javier García tries to protect the people close to him as competing groups create a larger struggle for safety. A New Frontier brings a different central perspective to Telltale’s series while maintaining connections to the wider story. Dialogue, relationships, and difficult choices remain its foundation. Pick it for that change of viewpoint, preferably after the earlier seasons. The useful thing to know is the family conflict at its heart, not the decisions that eventually resolve it.
Official promotional video — PlayStation. YouTube may require age confirmation. Watch on YouTube.
2. The Walking Dead: Season Two
Clementine takes the lead as she tries to find a place among survivors whose needs do not always agree. Decisions draw on your understanding of people and on the situation around them, rather than on a dependable good-or-bad indicator. It continues the first season’s story, so starting here gives away important context. Choose it when you want that journey to continue, with a protagonist whose limited power makes ordinary conversations feel unusually consequential.
Official promotional video — PlayStation. YouTube may require age confirmation. Watch on YouTube.
1. The Walking Dead: Season One
Lee Everett’s plans change when he meets a young girl named Clementine during an outbreak. Their journey puts relationships and difficult decisions at the center, with conversations often carrying more weight than action sequences. This is the first season of Telltale’s story, and it works best as the beginning rather than an isolated chapter chosen at random. Pick it for a character-led introduction to the series, and let its consequences arrive without a list of supposedly correct choices.
Official promotional video — Telltale Games. YouTube may require age confirmation. Watch on YouTube.
Which Should You Choose?
Begin with Telltale’s first season if the story is the priority. Saints & Sinners is the VR route, and No Man’s Land is the shorter mobile routine. Follow the main Telltale seasons in order if you want their relationships and consequences to retain their intended weight. For another direction, our Best Zombie and Infected Games on Xbox Series X|S guide offers a different set of options.
