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 18.4%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Comic Book 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Story Rich 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is Telltale at its best again, with the same episode-driven structure, dialogue choices, quick-time scenes, and a dark comic-book world shaped by your decisions.

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 31.7%, Story Rich 17.4%, Comic Book 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Point & Click 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This keeps the exact Telltale formula of conversational choices, branching relationships, and cinematic adventure, just in a superhero setting instead of a zombie apocalypse.

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 32.9%, Story Rich 20%, Comic Book 14.8%, Point & Click 11.8%, Adventure 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It refines Telltale’s character-focused branching storytelling and moral pressure, making it one of the closest mechanical matches to The Walking Dead series.

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 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Story Rich 12.3%, Third Person 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is modern Telltale with the same interactive drama, dialogue-driven decision making, and survival tension within a hostile world.

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 24%, Story Rich 20.3%, Dynamic Narration 6.3% ★, Third Person 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers one of the strongest branching narrative structures on Steam, with constant choices, character survival stakes, and a very polished cinematic presentation.

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 32%, Multiple Endings 19.7%, Story Rich 16%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Dynamic Narration 9% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its entire appeal is built on cinematic storytelling, life-or-death decisions, and major consequences for the cast, much like Telltale’s most intense moments.

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 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Story Rich 16.5%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Conversation 8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same feeling of guiding multiple desperate people through a branching, high-stakes story where small choices reshape later outcomes.

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%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Horror 13.7%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the horror side of The Walking Dead with even more possible deaths and branching character fates, this is a superb fit.

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 34.6%, Story Rich 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Point & Click 14.1%, Adventure 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Despite a lighter tone, it is another Telltale choice-heavy episodic adventure built around character bonds, dramatic pivots, and strong narrative momentum.

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 46.8%, Multiple Endings 23.9%, Horror 17.4%, Story Rich 10.4%, Adventure 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a modern horror choice-adventure where keeping characters alive, making split-second decisions, and shaping relationships are the core experience.

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 42.5%, Story Rich 23%, Dynamic Narration 9.9% ★, Horror 8.5%, Adventure 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is another cinematic choice-driven drama with strong emotional beats and supernatural danger, even if it is less tightly branching than Detroit or Heavy Rain.

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 43.1%, Multiple Endings 24.1%, Story Rich 23%, Third Person 6.7%, Adventure 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a similarly character-centered, choice-based story where your decisions shape relationships, tone, and the emotional weight of later scenes.

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 33.6%, Story Rich 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Dynamic Narration 9% ★

Why You'll Like It: This keeps the Dontnod-style focus on dialogue choices, intimate character drama, and uncovering a painful story through player-shaped interactions.

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 46.3%, Story Rich 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Adventure 5.7%, Point & Click 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its road-trip structure, emphasis on protecting vulnerable companions, and morally messy choices make it especially resonant for Walking Dead fans.

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

Why similar: Choices Matter 41.5%, Multiple Endings 24.8%, Story Rich 20.9%, Third Person 8.7%, Adventure 4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same slow-burn, character-driven approach to choices and consequences, with a strong focus on attachment to the cast.

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 33.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Multiple Endings 18.4%, Story Rich 16.8%, Third Person 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a polished narrative adventure centered on relationships, conversations, and emotionally loaded decision making rather than action.

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 53.2%, Horror 22%, Story Rich 13.8%, Adventure 5.5%, Atmospheric 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors Telltale’s 'anyone can die' appeal with branching horror scenes, quick decisions, and a cast whose survival depends on your judgment.

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 25.4%, Post-apocalyptic 23.3%, Story Rich 19.7%, Horror 15.3%, Third Person 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Although more action-heavy, it matches The Walking Dead in its bleak post-apocalyptic tone, infected threat, and emotionally central protector-companion bond.

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 30%, Horror 24.8%, Story Rich 22.1%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Dark 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is another interactive horror story built around dialogue choices, character survival, and multiple possible outcomes.

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 26.5%, Dynamic Narration 16.6% ★, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Horror 13.3%, Story Rich 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its trapped-group survival setup, relationship management, and constant death-risk make it one of the closest horror parallels to Telltale’s tension.

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

Why similar: Choices Matter 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Story Rich 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its episodic journey structure, shifting cast of allies, and choice-shaped road narrative scratch a similar survival-story itch from a very different angle.

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 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Story Rich 11.7%, Horror 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a superb horror narrative game with meaningful choices, strong character writing, and a reactive story that remembers what you do.

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 30.1%, Multiple Endings 20.5%, Horror 14.7%, Story Rich 13.6%, Third Person 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It leans hard into cinematic horror, branching paths, and trying to preserve a vulnerable ensemble through bad situations.

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%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Story Rich 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers more choice-driven dialogue and eerie story focus, making it a strong pick if you liked the moodier, relationship-heavy side of Telltale storytelling.

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 35.8%, Story Rich 26%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Horror 13.2%, Atmospheric 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends naturalistic dialogue choices, supernatural tension, and a strong group dynamic into a compact narrative adventure with a similar conversational flow.

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 26%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Story Rich 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Third Person 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a grounded narrative adventure centered on conversations, investigation, and choices that steer both relationships and the unfolding story.

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 43.6%, Story Rich 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Multiple Endings 7.7%, Adventure 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a choice-heavy episodic narrative game where dialogue decisions and social strategy matter more than reflexes, much like Telltale’s adventure design.

When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.5%, Horror 21%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines branching horror storytelling with a cast of interconnected characters whose fates can dramatically change based on your decisions.

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

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.1%, Zombies 19.1%, Story Rich 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%

YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Story Rich 15.5%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Horror 12%

Why You'll Like It: For fans of interactive fiction and branching mystery-horror, it offers a highly narrative experience where your questioning shapes the story’s outcome.

The Shapeshifting Detective is a supernatural murder mystery FMV game where you play as a detective who can shapeshift into other characters, allowing you to unlock secret conversations and private encounters.

Why similar: Choices Matter 62.2%, Story Rich 21.5%, Adventure 16.3%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers FMV-driven mystery and horror with branching interactions and multiple possible reveals, appealing to players who mainly want choice-led storytelling.

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 41.1%, Story Rich 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Comic Book 10.7%, Point & Click 6.3%

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 15.8%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Horror 8.6%

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 32.9%, Story Rich 26%, Horror 17.9%, Third Person 9.7%, Dark 5.4%

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

Why similar: Zombies 25.9%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Story Rich 13.7%, Point & Click 10.3%, Comic Book 8.2%

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

Why similar: Zombies 21.7%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Story Rich 10.8%, Comic Book 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 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 22.3%, Choices Matter 21.2%, Story Rich 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.7%

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 29.6%, Story Rich 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Comic Book 11%, Point & Click 9.2%

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 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

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 32.5%, Post-apocalyptic 29.3%, Horror 13%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Third Person 9.2%

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 35.9%, Zombies 30.6%, Horror 16.9%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Adventure 8.3%

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choices Matter 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.6%

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%, Comic Book 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Story Rich 10%

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 39%, Post-apocalyptic 28.6%, Story Rich 13.6%, Horror 9.5%, Third Person 6.3%

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 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Horror 10%, Choices Matter 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Zombies 60.3%, Post-apocalyptic 24.5%, Horror 7%, Third Person 6.1%, Atmospheric 2%

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 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%

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 19.3%, Zombies 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.

Why similar: Choices Matter 35.2%, Multiple Endings 28.4%, Story Rich 11.6%, Narration 9.9%, Horror 5.8%

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 39.2%, Choices Matter 33.2%, Horror 21.3%, Adventure 6.3%

The Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition includes single-player base content and over 40 DLC from the highly acclaimed Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3 games, including promo weapons, armors, and packs — remastered and optimized for 4K Ultra HD.

Why similar: Choices Matter 55.8%, Story Rich 39.1%, Atmospheric 5.1%

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 66.4%, Post-apocalyptic 31%, Adventure 2.6%

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 29.7%, Choices Matter 24.3%, Point & Click 21%, Story Rich 14.5%, Adventure 6.2%

An immersive choose-your-own-adventure survival horror with optional adult content featuring hand drawn backgrounds, sprites, and over 150 pieces of full screen art- and 50 endings.

Why similar: Choices Matter 19.7%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Post-apocalyptic 28%, Point & Click 20%, Horror 18%, 3D 5.5%

A short, choose your own adventure game about two boys that find each other in a lonely, post-apocalyptic town.

Why similar: Choices Matter 21%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11.3%

Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?

Why similar: Horror 70.1%, Dark 14.6%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Adventure 5.4%

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 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Horror 11.4%

An experimental narrative game set at a radio station at the end of the world. Host your last show as the sun turns red and the world burns down.

Why similar: Choices Matter 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Story Rich 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Multiple Endings 14%

Z-End is a multiple choice narrative game. During the zombie apocalypse, you'll encounter the mysterious Faye while searching for new members.What secrets is she hiding? Will she join you? Will you be able to overcome the danger of this world?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 74.1%, Adventure 25.9%