Games like The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
If The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Walking Dead, Dead Detention (Rescribbled) and The Walking Dead: Season Two — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its choices feel permanently consequential, atmospheric and emotional. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is an adventure game released in 2020 by Skybound Games. It compiles all four seasons of Telltale's acclaimed series, the 400 Days expansion, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, offering over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 episodes. The game centers on character-raising, consequence-driven-choices, and moral-decision-making within a post-apocalyptic setting. Players navigate narrative-branching paths and engage with quick-time-events as they progress through the story. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, emotional, and poignant, with character relationships deepening over time and moral dilemmas lingering long after play. The game is verified on Steam Deck, supports solo play only, and holds a 97% positive rating from 12,624 Steam reviews.
About The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series: The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
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The Walking Dead
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Shares quick time events and an atmospheric mood with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
Top pick for The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Dead Detention (Rescribbled)
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Second-strongest match for The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
DEAD DETENTION is a scribbly interactive story about a nerdy teen turned dooms day survivor! Play as 14 year old Max as he tries to escape his high school during a deadly zombie pandemic! Will he and his new friends get to safety?!
The Walking Dead: Season Two
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Shares moral decision making, quick time events and an atmospheric mood with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
Third-strongest match for The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.
Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator
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Ranked #4 for The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...
7Days Origins
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
Ranked #5 for The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
Go For A Punch! Saki Sanobashi
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Ranked #6 for The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
Four students find themselves trapped in the restroom of an abandoned school; the door is locked. Without a way of escaping, they can only cling to their remaining shreds of hope or come face to face with their inevitable ruin.
Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete Edition
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Ranked #7 for The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on the high seas. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.
End of Lines
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Ranked #8 for The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?
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The Wolf Among Us
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From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Finding Paradise
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Two doctors traverse backwards through a dying man's memories to fulfill his last wish. This is To the Moon's standalone sequel, but can also be played first.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
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The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.
Detroit: Become Human
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Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Beyond: Two Souls
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A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
Heavy Rain
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Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Night in the Woods
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NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
To the Moon
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A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~80% under The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
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Priced ~80% under The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~70% under The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
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Priced ~60% under The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Portal 2
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Priced ~80% under The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
PEAK
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Priced ~84% under The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Dispatch
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Priced ~52% under The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Don't Starve Together
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Priced ~70% under The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
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Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Frequently asked about The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
- Is The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series cost?
- The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is listed on Steam at 49.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series are The Walking Dead, Dead Detention (Rescribbled), The Walking Dead: Season Two.
- Who developed The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series?
- The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series was developed by Skybound Games.
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