The Walking Dead
Fair · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
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A BANGER at $2.01, only fair at $14.99.
- Length
- 0.5h
- Value
- $29.98/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, ATI or nVidia card with 512 MB RAM (not supported on Intel integrated graphics), 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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The value story
August 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. It has been discounted 75 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $2.01. The record reaches that level 17 times.
On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Walking Dead: Season Two ($14.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries ($14.99, scores 38).
82 from critics against 97 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 19 percent of players ever finish it. On a 0.5-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 10 of the 785 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 1,909 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 14 years ago and 614 were still playing it at the last check.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 0.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
83% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
614 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The Walking Dead has always been a heartbreaking story for me. Its incredibly well written, with an ending that leaves a lasting impact every single time. I can play it over and over again, yet it never gets old and the ending still hits me just as hard. To me, it doesn't feel like just a game, its more like struggling through a living nightmare alongside the characters, experiencing every hardship and loss with...
The best story game of all time. Rethinking about the story, characters, atmosphere, sounds, and music makes me tear up every time.
One of the best stories I've experienced in any medium. Characters feel so real, the relationship between Lee and Clementine is genuinely unforgettable. Few games have made me care so much about the people on screen. This game made me cry, it earned every emotional moment through its top tier writing. Wish I could wipe my memory and play it again for the first time! 10/10
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Walking Dead scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/207610/the-walking-deadThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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