Games like The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
If The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Walking Dead: The Final Season, The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries and The Walking Dead: Season Two — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its choices carry emotional weight, clementines presence and family drama. 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: A New Frontier is a 2016 adventure game developed by Telltale Games and published by Skybound Games. Set in a post-apocalyptic world following a zombie outbreak, the game presents an episodic narrative that unfolds across multiple episodes. Players navigate character relationships and faction politics through a dialogue system where narrative choices carry weight. Reviewers highlight the emotional weight of decisions and the ongoing presence of Clementine as a compelling through-line, with family drama driving much of the story's tension. The game is verified to run on Steam Deck and carries a review score of 77% positive based on 5936 Steam reviews. At $14.99, it offers a medium-length experience suited for sit-down sessions.
About The Walking Dead: A New Frontier: After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?
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The Walking Dead: The Final Season
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Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Top pick for The Walking Dead: A New Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries
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Shares a tense mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Second-strongest match for The Walking Dead: A New Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries stars the iconic, blade-wielding character from Robert Kirkman's best-selling comic books.
The Walking Dead: Season Two
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Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Third-strongest match for The Walking Dead: A New Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
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.
The Walking Dead
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Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Ranked #4 for The Walking Dead: A New Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
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Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Ranked #5 for The Walking Dead: A New Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
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Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Ranked #6 for The Walking Dead: A New Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
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.
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
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Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Ranked #7 for The Walking Dead: A New Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series is a six part episodic game series set in the world of HBO's groundbreaking TV show. This new story tells of House Forrester, a noble family from the north of Westeros, loyal to the Starks of Winterfell.
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
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Shares a tense mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Ranked #8 for The Walking Dead: A New Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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The Walking Dead: Season Two
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Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Reviewers of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
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.
The Walking Dead
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Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Reviewers of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Night in the Woods
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Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Reviewers of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
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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Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Reviewers of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
Heavy Rain
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Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Reviewers of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
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.
BioShock™
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Shares a dark mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Reviewers of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
CONTROL Ultimate Edition
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Reviewers of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Walking Dead: A New Frontier at current Steam store prices.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under The Walking Dead: A New Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
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?
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under The Walking Dead: A New Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
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Priced ~47% under The Walking Dead: A New Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~93% under The Walking Dead: A New Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
OneShot
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Priced ~60% under The Walking Dead: A New Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
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Priced ~60% under The Walking Dead: A New Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
GRIS
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Priced ~75% under The Walking Dead: A New Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~87% under The Walking Dead: A New Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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: A New Frontier.
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: A New Frontier.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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: A New Frontier.
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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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Telltale Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Walking Dead
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Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
The Walking Dead: Season Two
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
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.
The Walking Dead: The Final Season
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
Tales from the Borderlands
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Shares a cinematic mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series is a six part episodic game series set in the world of HBO's groundbreaking TV show. This new story tells of House Forrester, a noble family from the north of Westeros, loyal to the Starks of Winterfell.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Poker Night at the Inventory (2010 Original Version)
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Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Prepare for a different kind of poker night in a very different kind of club and play against familiar faces!
The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries stars the iconic, blade-wielding character from Robert Kirkman's best-selling comic books.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Walking Dead: The Final Season
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
The Walking Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
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.
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
Frequently asked about The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
- Is The Walking Dead: A New Frontier verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Walking Dead: A New Frontier 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: A New Frontier cost?
- The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Walking Dead: A New Frontier?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Walking Dead: A New Frontier are The Walking Dead: The Final Season, The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries, The Walking Dead: Season Two.
- Who developed The Walking Dead: A New Frontier?
- The Walking Dead: A New Frontier was developed by Telltale Games and published by Skybound Games.
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