Games Like The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series

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: Choices Matter 18.5%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Comic Book 13.5%, Story Rich 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Telltale's noir fantasy mystery delivers the same episode-based structure, dialogue choices, moral pressure, and comic-book presentation.

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: Choices Matter 32.3%, Story Rich 20.2%, Comic Book 14.8%, Point & Click 11.6%, Adventure 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This polished Telltale follow-up puts heavy emphasis on relationship-building choices and branching character arcs.

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

Why similar: Choices Matter 31.6%, Story Rich 17.4%, Comic Book 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Point & Click 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It uses the familiar Telltale formula of investigation, quick-time crises, and consequential conversations in a serialized story.

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 40.4%, Multiple Endings 23.7%, Story Rich 20.9%, Dynamic Narration 6.1% ★, Third Person 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its elaborate branching paths and life-or-death decisions offer one of the strongest modern alternatives for players who want consequences to matter.

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 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Horror 13.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: This cinematic horror story turns split-second decisions and interpersonal trust into a branching fight for survival.

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: Choices Matter 34%, Story Rich 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Point & Click 14%, Adventure 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its episodic, character-led adventure balances high-stakes choices with an exceptionally memorable ensemble and cinematic pacing.

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 30.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Multiple Endings 13%, Story Rich 12.5%, Adventure 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A modern Telltale adventure with dialogue decisions, tense crew dynamics, and a dangerous survival-focused sci-fi setting.

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 46.4%, Multiple Endings 23.3%, Horror 17.6%, Story Rich 11%, Adventure 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A modern interactive slasher in which player choices can save or doom a large cast across a single terrifying night.

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 33.4%, Multiple Endings 20.1%, Story Rich 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Dynamic Narration 9% ★

Why You'll Like It: A foundational cinematic choice game where several protagonists' decisions can radically alter a suspenseful murder investigation.

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 23.1%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Horror 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative horror game combines ensemble survival, branching scenes, and lasting consequences in a dark supernatural setting.

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 30.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Story Rich 16.7%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its accessible interactive-drama format emphasizes family conflict, tense moral choices, and dramatically diverging story routes.

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 53.1%, Horror 21.6%, Story Rich 14.2%, Adventure 5.5%, Atmospheric 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact horror campaign centers on keeping an ensemble alive through dialogue decisions and irreversible mistakes.

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 27.7%, Dynamic Narration 16.8% ★, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Horror 13.9%, Story Rich 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A tense creature-feature survival story where relationships, quick decisions, and player choices determine who makes it out.

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 32.4%, Multiple Endings 21.9%, Horror 15.9%, Story Rich 14.9%, Third Person 8%

Why You'll Like It: This choice-driven horror thriller makes every character vulnerable, with branching survival outcomes similar to Telltale's high-pressure moments.

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: Multiple Endings 28.7%, Horror 24.1%, Story Rich 21.8%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Dark 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a choice-heavy supernatural mystery with multiple endings and a strong focus on the fate of its central group.

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 43.9%, Story Rich 23.9%, Dynamic Narration 9.8% ★, Horror 9%, Adventure 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This cinematic supernatural drama follows a vulnerable protagonist through major relationship choices and intense set-piece scenes.

Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.

Why similar: Choices Matter 42.6%, Multiple Endings 23.7%, Story Rich 23.2%, Third Person 6.6%, Adventure 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its time-manipulation mechanic adds another layer to the series' intimate, choice-led coming-of-age drama.

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: Choices Matter 33%, Story Rich 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Dynamic Narration 8.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: A grounded episodic drama from the Life is Strange developers, built around difficult family history and player-shaped dialogue.

After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.

Why similar: Choices Matter 45.5%, Story Rich 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Adventure 5.8%, Point & Click 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its road-trip survival story builds emotional weight around sibling bonds and choices that shape the brothers' values and ending.

Experience the winner of over 300 Game of the Year awards, now on PC. Discover Ellie and Abby’s story with graphical enhancements, gameplay modes like the roguelike survival experience No Return, and more.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.5%, Story Rich 26.3%, Horror 17.9%, Third Person 9.6%, Dark 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its grim post-apocalyptic drama explores revenge, trauma, and survival with the same emotionally uncompromising tone.

Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.

Why similar: Choices Matter 33.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Multiple Endings 18.2%, Story Rich 17.1%, Third Person 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A character-focused episodic mystery with empathetic relationships, dialogue choices, and an emotional small-town atmosphere.

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 26.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.8%, Story Rich 19.7%, Horror 14.8%, Third Person 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more action-focused, its devastating infected-world journey and guardian-child bond strongly echo The Walking Dead's emotional survival themes.

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

Why similar: Choices Matter 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Story Rich 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A procedurally structured road-trip narrative where repeated conversations and choices gradually shape several connected stories.

You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Comic Book 12.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply branching horror visual novel where every conversation and interpretation can transform the story's characters and outcome.

The Final Cut is the ultimate collector's edition of Dreamfall Chapters, a story-driven 3D adventure about choice and consequence, set in parallel worlds: a cyberpunk vision of the future and a magical fantasy realm.

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.7%, Story Rich 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Point & Click 11.9%, Adventure 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its long-form episodic narrative features meaningful decisions, a richly developed world, and multiple protagonists facing personal crises.

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: Choices Matter 42.9%, Story Rich 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, Adventure 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This episodic mystery makes dialogue, alliances, and social skills mechanically meaningful, rewarding careful decisions over action.

Play as 3 vampires, wield their powers wisely, and strike the right balance between your human and animal side in a heart-pounding story in which your choices will decide the fate of Boston.

Why similar: Choices Matter 31.7%, Story Rich 20.8%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Third Person 9.1%, Atmospheric 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, choice-heavy RPG thriller where investigations, relationships, and failures can substantially redirect each protagonist's story.

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: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Story Rich 11%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the original's conversational choice system into another eerie, character-driven supernatural mystery.

Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.

Why similar: Choices Matter 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Story Rich 11.9%, Horror 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This choice-rich episodic horror adventure excels at building relationships, preserving consequences, and putting its cast in escalating danger.

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: Choices Matter 35.3%, Story Rich 26.3%, Horror 13.2%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Atmospheric 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This supernatural adventure uses natural dialogue choices, a vulnerable friend group, and multiple endings to create intimate suspense.

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

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.3%, Zombies 20.2%, Story Rich 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%

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: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Zombies 8.6%

A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.

Why similar: Zombies 26.6%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Story Rich 13.3%, Point & Click 9.8%, Comic Book 7.8%

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

Why similar: Zombies 22.9%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Story Rich 10.7%, Comic Book 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%

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 23.5%, Choices Matter 20.5%, Story Rich 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.6%

Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!

Why similar: Choices Matter 40.4%, Story Rich 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Comic Book 10.3%, Point & Click 6%

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 31%, Story Rich 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Comic Book 10.7%, Point & Click 8.9%

From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

Why similar: Story Rich 32.3%, Post-apocalyptic 29.5%, Horror 13.1%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Third Person 8.9%

Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.

Why similar: Choices Matter 41.2%, Multiple Endings 24.3%, Story Rich 21.3%, Third Person 8.7%, Adventure 4.1%

7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.

Why similar: Comic Book 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

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 40.4%, Post-apocalyptic 27.3%, Story Rich 13.6%, Horror 9%, Third Person 6%

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

Why similar: Zombies 21%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Story Rich 11.9%

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: Comic Book 34.1%, Zombies 32.1%, Horror 16.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Adventure 8.1%

The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Visual Novel 9.5%

The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Point & Click 19.9%, Horror 17.9%, 3D 5.3%

Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.

Why similar: Choices Matter 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Multiple Endings 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Horror 13.3%

Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?

Why similar: Choices Matter 17.2%, Comic Book 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Story Rich 10.4%

DEEP UNDER is a grim visual novel about how an ordinary camping trip with friends can turn into a real nightmare.

Why similar: Comic Book 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Horror 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%

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 18.3%, Comic Book 16.5%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Horror 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%

From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...

Why similar: Choices Matter 18.9%, Zombies 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%

A survival journey through a harsh world without rules or judgement. Only your choices matters in the face of moral dilemmas. Manage your party, food & equipment in this non-linear narrative survival sim with 34 possible endings.

Why similar: Choices Matter 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Zombies 67.4%, Post-apocalyptic 29.6%, Adventure 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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 40.6%, Choices Matter 31.6%, Horror 20.6%, Adventure 6.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%

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: Choices Matter 38.2%, Story Rich 28.4%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Atmospheric 5.9%, Point & Click 5.7%

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Zombies 49.2%, Post-apocalyptic 32%, Horror 18.7%

Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.3%, Choices Matter 24%, Point & Click 20.7%, Story Rich 14.9%, Adventure 6.3%

RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Choices Matter 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Story Rich 9.7%

Embark on a new narrative journey by the creators of Life is Strange. Film your summer of 1995 and create memories of a lifetime with your new friends. 27 years later, confront the dark secrets that made you all promise to never speak again after that fateful summer.

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Story Rich 14.9%, Dynamic Narration 11.5% ★

A deadly virus is spreading across Los Angeles, turning its inhabitants into zombies. Bitten, infected, but more than just immune, uncover the truth behind the outbreak and discover who - or what - you are. Survive, evolve and become the ultimate Zombie Slayer.

Why similar: Zombies 40%, Post-apocalyptic 27.3%, Horror 18.5%, Dark 8.8%, Adventure 5.3%