The Escapists: The Walking Dead
Skip · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 12, under the fair line, at $17.99.
- Length
- 7.6h 27h to 100%
- Value
- $2.37/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 902 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Merging the smash hit indie game The Escapists with the world wide phenomenon that is The Walking Dead, Team17 have taken the very best of both worlds and are now providing players with the opportunity to play Rick Grimes as he takes on hordes of zombies let loose upon the world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000, Nvidia GeForce 8000, ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 99 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Infectonator: Survivors ($9.99, scores 17) and The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners ($19.99, scores 57) both outscore it.
More about The Escapists: The Walking Dead
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 315 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,422 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 195 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 309 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.6 hours. Doing everything runs 27, 3.6 times as long.
At 7.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
76% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 12:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
i'm not well versed in the walking dead franchise, but this game doesn't really capture the sense of the series, or even in any way feels like the escapists game. both of these shouldn't be combined in the first place. ignoring the story, this game is nonsensical. i don't even bother playing the survival mode. 1/10
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It was a no for me, it was restrictive, npc's were frutrating and the weapon system didn't make any sense
I would recommend getting when on sale. This is a nice game to play and it does justice for the comics. However, there are flaws to the game but aren't game killers.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Escapists: The Walking Dead scores 12/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/388060/the-escapists-the-walking-deadReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.