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The Walking Dead

Telltale Games · Skybound Games · 2012-04-24

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Adventure

Franchise: The Walking Dead · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Aug 22, 2013 (PlayStation Vita), Apr 08, 2014 (Android), Apr 27, 2012 (Xbox 360), Oct 14, 2014 (PlayStation 4), Apr 24, 2012 (PlayStation 3), Aug 28, 2018 (Nintendo Switch)

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

The Walking Dead is a 2012 Adventure game priced at $1.49, with an owner estimate of 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 and a review sentiment of Overwhelmingly Positive (97% of 80598 reviews).

104
playing now
97%
positive of 81k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
2,733
twitch viewers (latest)
1366.5
viewers/channel (concentration)
84/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
86/100
IGDB user rating (1742 ratings)
8
Nexus mods (8.0k downloads)
13h
to beat · rushed 10h · completionist 15h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.49
steam price (US)

104 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

The Walking Dead is a 2012 episodic graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games. Set in the same universe as the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, it is the first installment, or "season", in Telltale's The Walking Dead video game series, and comprises five main "episodes" and one DLC episode released between April 2012 and July 2013. The game follows Lee Everett, a convicted criminal who becomes the guardian of a young girl named Clementine amidst the onset of a zombie apocalypse in Georgia. Player decisions, such as dialogue choices and actions, influence the story's direction, with the consequences of these choices carrying over across the game's episodes.

Trailer

The Walking Dead trailer thumbnail

The Walking Dead Season 1 Official Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 104 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,992 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~374/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 3.2M–6.5M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 80,841 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.49-90%
Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.04 at GameBillet (2025-10-30) · bundled 10×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 76 of 135 observed days · $0.45 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.3k1.3k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 332 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 341 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 808 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 245 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 265 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 268 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 253 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 386 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 305 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 175 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 225 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 286 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 294 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 205 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 354 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 392 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 533 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 293 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 226 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 438 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 597 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1,256 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 437 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 561 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 364 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 405 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 289 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 306 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 206 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 350 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 328 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 737 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 500 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 638 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 749 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 729 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 491 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 367 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 363 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 361 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 431 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1,006 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 621 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 545 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 263 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 686 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 559 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 523 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 559 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 337 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 641 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 324 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 236 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 247 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 463 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 384 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 277 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

339702026-09-15 11:00 — 125 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 197 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 116 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 149 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 242 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 121 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 77 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 160 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 139 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 127 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 172 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 115 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 81 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 211 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 328 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 151 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 221 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 287 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 181 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 230 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 339 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 173 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 104 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2.4k58Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 737 · peak 2,602Dec 2012 — avg 1,674 · peak 5,788May 2013 — avg 312 · peak 2,383Oct 2013 — avg 572 · peak 2,351Mar 2014 — avg 635 · peak 2,090Aug 2014 — avg 772 · peak 3,828Jan 2015 — avg 549 · peak 2,218Jun 2015 — avg 359 · peak 1,303Nov 2015 — avg 299 · peak 1,006Apr 2016 — avg 384 · peak 1,052Sep 2016 — avg 177 · peak 362Feb 2017 — avg 220 · peak 458Jul 2017 — avg 435 · peak 1,131Dec 2017 — avg 364 · peak 918May 2018 — avg 174 · peak 459Oct 2018 — avg 171 · peak 379Mar 2019 — avg 96 · peak 302Aug 2019 — avg 71 · peak 155Jan 2020 — avg 84 · peak 258Jun 2020 — avg 227 · peak 882Nov 2020 — avg 149 · peak 357Apr 2021 — avg 147 · peak 284Sep 2021 — avg 137 · peak 299Feb 2022 — avg 152 · peak 332Jul 2022 — avg 143 · peak 294Dec 2022 — avg 203 · peak 574May 2023 — avg 107 · peak 200Oct 2023 — avg 211 · peak 597Mar 2024 — avg 163 · peak 401Aug 2024 — avg 276 · peak 796Jan 2025 — avg 214 · peak 603Jun 2025 — avg 412 · peak 1,266Nov 2025 — avg 289 · peak 917Apr 2026 — avg 160 · peak 358Aug 2026 — avg 219 · peak 571
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$24.99$1.042015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $8.502015-05-09 — best price $15.462015-08-22 — best price $6.242015-12-22 — best price $4.992016-07-04 — best price $24.992017-01-09 — best price $24.992017-11-03 — best price $4.992018-06-22 — best price $4.992020-06-25 — best price $3.742020-08-11 — best price $14.992020-09-19 — best price $14.992020-10-25 — best price $13.392020-11-30 — best price $14.992021-01-22 — best price $13.392021-03-04 — best price $14.992021-04-26 — best price $13.492021-06-04 — best price $14.992021-08-27 — best price $12.442021-12-10 — best price $14.992022-03-05 — best price $13.392022-05-23 — best price $14.992022-10-01 — best price $10.742023-03-02 — best price $13.392023-08-07 — best price $1.492023-12-04 — best price $11.012024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-06-27 — best price $3.152024-08-30 — best price $2.892024-11-19 — best price $13.392024-12-30 — best price $2.982025-04-25 — best price $11.502025-07-08 — best price $1.442025-10-06 — best price $13.742025-11-29 — best price $1.302026-02-03 — best price $3.522026-07-20 — best price $1.322026-09-08 — best price $14.992026-10-03 — best price $14.992026-10-14 — best price $1.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

6023452026-05-30 — 436 pageviews2026-06-03 — 519 pageviews2026-06-07 — 601 pageviews2026-06-11 — 480 pageviews2026-06-15 — 482 pageviews2026-06-19 — 486 pageviews2026-06-23 — 423 pageviews2026-06-27 — 551 pageviews2026-07-01 — 541 pageviews2026-07-05 — 591 pageviews2026-07-09 — 549 pageviews2026-07-13 — 549 pageviews2026-07-17 — 467 pageviews2026-07-21 — 453 pageviews2026-07-25 — 516 pageviews2026-07-29 — 553 pageviews2026-08-02 — 540 pageviews2026-08-06 — 550 pageviews2026-08-10 — 508 pageviews2026-08-14 — 394 pageviews2026-08-18 — 472 pageviews2026-08-22 — 457 pageviews2026-08-26 — 457 pageviews2026-08-30 — 463 pageviews2026-09-03 — 440 pageviews2026-09-07 — 514 pageviews2026-09-11 — 500 pageviews2026-09-15 — 447 pageviews2026-09-19 — 432 pageviews2026-09-23 — 431 pageviews2026-09-27 — 442 pageviews2026-10-01 — 374 pageviews2026-10-05 — 457 pageviews2026-10-09 — 345 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

98042026-10-03 22:34 — 103 viewers2026-10-04 01:34 — 208 viewers2026-10-04 04:34 — 114 viewers2026-10-04 07:34 — 58 viewers2026-10-04 10:34 — 95 viewers2026-10-04 13:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-05 23:34 — 140 viewers2026-10-06 02:34 — 254 viewers2026-10-06 05:34 — 132 viewers2026-10-06 08:34 — 91 viewers2026-10-06 11:34 — 56 viewers2026-10-07 21:34 — 151 viewers2026-10-08 00:34 — 306 viewers2026-10-08 03:34 — 254 viewers2026-10-08 06:34 — 111 viewers2026-10-08 09:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-08 12:34 — 24 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 509 viewers2026-10-10 01:34 — 193 viewers2026-10-10 04:34 — 146 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 902 viewers2026-10-10 10:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-11 21:34 — 116 viewers2026-10-12 00:34 — 317 viewers2026-10-12 03:34 — 979 viewers2026-10-12 06:34 — 114 viewers2026-10-12 09:34 — 46 viewers2026-10-12 11:34 — 322 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

48
achievements tracked
82.4%
earned "Out of the Frying Pan"
43.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2013-07-03 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox 360 (Xbox)105,34316%48
Steam (Steam)95,97227%48
PS3 (PlayStation)87,56225%49
PS4 (PlayStation)46,38351%49
PS Vita (PlayStation)22,74155%49
PS3 (PlayStation)1,41591%41
Switch (Nintendo)2340%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

DramaHorrorMatureZombiesEpisodicAdventureEmotionalComic BookStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

Don't Knock TwiceHow to Survive 2Dead AgeRusty Lake: RootsLife is Strange 2Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded EditionRemnant: From the AshesThe Walking Dead: The Final Season

Similarity via IGDB.

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