The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.6h
- Value
- $1.97/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Nvidia GTS 450+ with 1024MB+ VRAM (excluding GT), 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 value story
October 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. 53 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. 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.
On value it sits in the top 16 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Walking Dead: The Final Season ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries ($14.99, scores 38).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 566 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
91% start to 70% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
110 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
!!spoilers oh how i love my little soap opera with my cute little people. so emotional and complicated - i love it. at the same time - it's the biggest draw back. sometimes tooth-rotting bits weaved with heart-breaking ones might be just too… much. everything is all over the place. at the same time this chaos is really close to my heart; that's why i love it so much. it is indeed kinda stupid, but it's okay. for the...
The worst season of The Walking Dead, still playable though. This season has the weakest story out of all the games so much so that you can skip this season and miss nothing except for knowing what happens after season 2 and why Clem goes to McCarroll Ranch before going into season 4, that's how irrelevant it is to Clementines story. It's so irrelevant in fact that nobody from this game even appears in season 4 and...
In short, this season was badly put together and could have been so much better. The writing is easily its biggest problem: nearly every character, including the one you play as, is so poorly written and unlikeable that, at times, you just want them all to die so the whole thing can finally be over. The only real positive I can give this season is that, compared to the first two seasons, each episode is roughly half...
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: A New Frontier scores 53/100 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/536220/the-walking-dead-a-new-frontierThe 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 Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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