Games Like The Walking Dead

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.

Why similar: Zombies 32.7%, Episodic 27.9% ★, Point & Click 7.5%, Story Rich 6.4%, Choices Matter 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is the direct continuation of Clementine's story with the same episodic choice-driven structure, emotional survival drama, and zombie-threat atmosphere.

A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.

Why similar: Zombies 29.9%, Episodic 18.3% ★, Choices Matter 10.9%, Story Rich 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It preserves the series' heavy moral choices and character-focused storytelling while bringing Clementine's arc to an emotional conclusion.

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?

Why similar: Zombies 29.3%, Episodic 27.1% ★, Choices Matter 8.4%, Story Rich 8.3%, Point & Click 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the same Telltale formula of dialogue choices, quick-time drama, and desperate human conflict in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.

The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries stars the iconic, blade-wielding character from Robert Kirkman's best-selling comic books.

Why similar: Zombies 29.8%, Episodic 24.3% ★, Point & Click 7.9%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Story Rich 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another Telltale-style Walking Dead story built around tough decisions, comic-universe tension, and intimate character drama.

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.

Why similar: Episodic 43.9% ★, Point & Click 11.9%, Story Rich 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Even without zombies, it is one of the closest matches in structure and feel thanks to its episodic branching narrative, tense conversations, and constant life-or-death pressure.

Enter the fractured psyche of Bruce Wayne and discover the powerful and far-reaching consequences of your choices as the Dark Knight.

Why similar: Episodic 42.9% ★, Choices Matter 12.3%, Story Rich 10.4%, Point & Click 8.7%, Quick-Time Events 6.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: This uses the same cinematic point-and-click framework, dialogue choices, and episode-driven pacing that make The Walking Dead work.

In this latest chapter from the award-winning studio behind Batman - The Telltale Series, both Bruce Wayne and Batman will be forced into precarious new roles. The Riddler has returned to terrorize Gotham City, but his gruesome puzzles merely foreshadow an even greater crisis.

Why similar: Episodic 32.1% ★, Choices Matter 15.2%, Story Rich 14.3%, Point & Click 13.3%, Adventure 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers Telltale's strongest choice-and-consequence storytelling outside The Walking Dead, with relationships and identity decisions driving the whole experience.

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.

Why similar: Episodic 44.4% ★, Choices Matter 11.6%, Point & Click 11.6%, Story Rich 11.2%, Quick-Time Events 5.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: It swaps horror for humor but nails the same episodic Telltale rhythm, character banter, and choice-led narrative flow.

Take on the role of Camina Drummer and explore the dangerous, uncharted edges of the Belt. From scavenging wrecked ships in a zero-g environment, to combating fearsome pirates, you make the difficult choices in this latest Telltale adventure. All five episodes playable at launch!

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Adventure 17.6%, Story Rich 17.3%, Gore 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a modern Telltale game that closely matches the original's conversational choices, dramatic set pieces, and survival-focused storytelling.

Explore the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong, the character's lives depend on the choices you make.

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.9%, Story Rich 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Emotional 17%, Adventure 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its ensemble cast, branching decisions, and emphasis on relationships under extreme stress make it feel very close to The Walking Dead's human drama.

When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.

Why similar: Choices Matter 41.9%, Horror 17.9%, Story Rich 14.5%, Quick-Time Events 13.3% ★, Gore 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is another heavily choice-driven cinematic survival story where your decisions determine who survives and how the cast's relationships evolve.

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.

Why similar: Choices Matter 33%, Story Rich 25.7%, Quick-Time Events 14.1% ★, Emotional 13.5%, Adventure 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its interactive-drama design, quick-time events, and constant sense that any mistake can permanently alter the story align closely with Telltale's appeal.

The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.5%, Story Rich 20.4%, Horror 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Adventure 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a modern horror narrative built around branching choices, doomed characters, and cinematic tension much like a darker Telltale season.

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.

Why similar: Choices Matter 36.6%, Horror 17.2%, Story Rich 14.8%, Adventure 9.6%, Quick-Time Events 9.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same 'keep the cast alive through your choices' tension in a shorter, horror-focused interactive drama.

Trapped and isolated in the abandoned town of Little Hope, 4 college students and their teacher must escape the nightmarish apparitions that relentlessly pursue them through an impenetrable fog.

Why similar: Episodic 33.1% ★, Story Rich 16.9%, Horror 14.1%, Quick-Time Events 12.1% ★, Choices Matter 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its character-driven branching horror and constant uncertainty over who will make it out alive echo The Walking Dead's decision pressure.

Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.

Why similar: Episodic 50.1% ★, Choices Matter 14.9%, Story Rich 11.7%, Emotional 8.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This story-first adventure focuses on relationships, conversations, and emotionally difficult choices in a way that should appeal to Telltale fans.

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.

Why similar: Choices Matter 39.1%, Story Rich 30.6%, Emotional 15.8%, Adventure 4.8%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is one of the strongest branching narrative games on Steam, with major choices, multiple playable characters, and visibly diverging outcomes.

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.

Why similar: Episodic 47.5% ★, Story Rich 16.9%, Choices Matter 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.7%, Atmospheric 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on intimate character bonds, dialogue choices, and emotionally messy consequences makes it a strong fit for fans of Telltale storytelling.

At the close of the Iraq War, Special Forces hunting for weapons of mass destruction unearth something far deadlier – a buried Sumerian temple containing a nest of unearthly creatures. To survive the night below, they must forge a brotherhood with their enemies from the world above.

Why similar: Choices Matter 37.3%, Story Rich 25.2%, Horror 21.4%, Adventure 9.2%, Atmospheric 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This entry blends monster horror with survival-focused group dynamics and consequential choices in a way Walking Dead fans often appreciate.

Saints & Sinners is a game unlike any other in The Walking Dead universe. Every challenge you face and decision you make is driven by YOU. Fight the undead, scavenge through the flooded ruins of New Orleans, and face gut-wrenching choices for you and the other survivors. Live The Walking Dead.

Why similar: Zombies 52%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Horror 9.8%, Gore 7.6%, Adventure 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: While it is VR survival rather than point-and-click adventure, it captures the same harsh Walking Dead world and morally messy scavenger-survivor tone.

Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.

Why similar: Zombies 55.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Story Rich 9.1%, Survival 7.2%, Horror 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is far more combat-focused, but its lonely post-apocalyptic travel, infected setting, and character-driven survival story overlap with The Walking Dead's mood.

Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.

Why similar: Zombies 39.1%, Story Rich 14.2%, Emotional 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Horror 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is mechanically more action-heavy, but its emotional guardian-child dynamic and grim zombie-ravaged world make it a natural thematic follow-up.

A group of documentary film makers receive a mysterious call inviting them to a modern-day replica of serial killer H.H. Holmes ‘Murder Castle’. But on arrival they soon discover they’re being watched, and even manipulated, and suddenly there is much more at stake than just their ratings…

Why similar: Choices Matter 29.3%, Story Rich 20.5%, Horror 16.4%, Quick-Time Events 10.5% ★, Survival 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes cinematic decision-making, character survival, and grim horror set pieces in a very Telltale-adjacent format.

The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?

Why similar: Choices Matter 32.1%, Story Rich 28.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Adventure 12%, Third Person 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is another narrative-heavy adventure centered on investigation, dialogue choices, and personal drama rather than mechanical challenge.

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.

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.7%, Story Rich 23.9%, Emotional 12.9%, Adventure 11.2%, Quick-Time Events 9.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: This cinematic interactive drama shares The Walking Dead's focus on character-driven scenes, quick-time events, and a story shaped by player actions.

Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!

Why similar: Choices Matter 24.7%, Story Rich 22%, Emotional 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Adventure 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its episodic road-trip structure, repeat encounters, and choice-driven storytelling create a similar feeling of navigating danger through people as much as action.

Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.

Why similar: Episodic 36% ★, Choices Matter 22.8%, Story Rich 15%, Adventure 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a narrative adventure with meaningful dialogue choices, episode-based storytelling, and a stronger emphasis on social consequences than action.

Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.

Why similar: Point & Click 24.1%, Story Rich 17.5%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Horror 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like the first game, it focuses on conversational choices, eerie atmosphere, and story momentum over traditional combat.

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.

Why similar: Zombies 25.7%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Story Rich 13.4%, Point & Click 10%, Comic Book 7.9%

Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

Why similar: Story Rich 34.9%, Choices Matter 31%, Horror 13.1%, Adventure 9.7%, Atmospheric 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It trades zombies for supernatural horror but offers excellent dialogue-driven tension, youth drama, and choices that subtly shape the journey.

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Zombies 72.1%, Survival 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Horror 2.8%, Adventure 2.1%

Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

Why similar: Zombies 83%, Horror 4.6%, Survival 3.3%, Gore 2.9%, Post-apocalyptic 2.8%

Change the course of AMC’s The Walking Dead history. Fight walkers, relive iconic moments, and change the destiny of The Walking Dead Universe as your choices separate heroes from villains, and the living from the dead. Will you make the same choices as Rick, or will you forge your own path?

Why similar: Zombies 48.8%, Comic Book 13.4%, Adventure 10.1%, Horror 9.3%, Survival 6%

From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.

Why similar: Zombies 78.7%, Horror 6.9%, Post-apocalyptic 4.8%, Survival 3.7%, Adventure 1.6%

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.

Why similar: Episodic 49.1% ★, Story Rich 18.3%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Point & Click 6%, Adventure 3.6%

All of us are not dead. Our school has been infested with zombies, and we are still alive. Every day, our hopes of escaping this school become less and less likely. Follow us as we try to survive and escape our zombie-filled school. A visual novel based on the popular webcomic.

Why similar: Zombies 52.9%, Story Rich 14.4%, Adventure 9.1%, Choices Matter 7.1%, Gore 6.1%

Step into the dangerous world of The Walking Dead: No Man's Land. Lead survivors in turn-based strategy battles, manage resources, and make tough choices to ensure their survival. Fight walkers, build your base, and face endless dangers.

Why similar: Zombies 72.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Survival 8%, Action 1.5%, Multiplayer 1.3%

Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead combines the legendary and challenging puzzle gameplay of Bridge Constructor™ with the post-apocalyptic zombie universe of AMC’s The Walking Dead.

Why similar: Zombies 77.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Adventure 4.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.

Why similar: Choices Matter 25.3%, Horror 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Story Rich 12.6%, Adventure 8.1%

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Why similar: Zombies 71.7%, Survival 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Gore 2.2%, Singleplayer 1.8%

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.

Why similar: Zombies 80.4%, Survival 8.7%, Horror 3.3%, Gore 2.5%, Adventure 1.8%

399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.

Why similar: Zombies 23.3%, Point & Click 18%, Choices Matter 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Horror 8.6%

A zombie outbreak eradicated all hope of returning life back to normal, now only survival lives on. Run, hide and fight your way through the undead as Randall searches for his family in this gorgeous, gritty, destroyed world.

Why similar: Zombies 66.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Adventure 8.7%, Story Rich 6.3%, Survival 3.1%

Perseverance is a horror/drama visual novel about survival and redemption. In Part 1 you play as Jack, a father who is struggling to keep his family together and finds himself in the middle of horrific events.

Why similar: Zombies 33.4%, Episodic 18.1% ★, Choices Matter 9.5%, Story Rich 9.4%, Comic Book 7.8%

“Probably the best downloadable title on the market right now.” 9/10 – Eurogamer.se

Why similar: Zombies 70.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Adventure 5.1%, Horror 3.3%, Atmospheric 3.1%

The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.

Why similar: Zombies 59.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Adventure 7%, Choices Matter 6.1%, Survival 5.8%

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Why similar: Zombies 56%, Horror 10.7%, Story Rich 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Gore 6.3%

Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress. They are looking for salvation. Do you hand them over to violent authorities? Or risk sheltering them yourself?

Why similar: Episodic 38.7% ★, Point & Click 10.9%, Choices Matter 7.4%, Story Rich 7.4%, Emotional 7.1%

Decide the fates of altruistic scientist Anu, her ambitious, "streetwise" brother Octavio, and the fierce, frogurt-slinging Fran. Claw and con your way through five thrilling chapters!

Why similar: Episodic 47.9% ★, Choices Matter 11.3%, Quick-Time Events 11.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%, Story Rich 7.2%

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: Survival 25.6%, Choices Matter 21%, Story Rich 14.5%, Emotional 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12%

A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.

Why similar: Episodic 38% ★, Story Rich 19.4%, Horror 16%, Adventure 9.1%, Atmospheric 5.5%

Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.

Why similar: Zombies 60.2%, Story Rich 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Survival 8.2%, Adventure 4.8%

Escape Dead Island is a Survival-Mystery adventure that lets players delve into the Dead Island universe and unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak.

Why similar: Zombies 68.4%, Gore 6.8%, Adventure 6.5%, Survival 5.9%, Horror 5.6%

RE Revelations 2 continues the series acclaimed essential survival horror experience, while uncovering startling truths.

Why similar: Zombies 46.7%, Episodic 26% ★, Horror 8.5%, Adventure 3.6%, Story Rich 3.2%