

Yep, Dark Souls is about a zombie apocalypse. Choice is an illusion that humans thrust onto the world, but the dead don’t split hairs. You’ll choose between characters only to see things end the same way further down the line. You need a breather between them, because there’ll be QTEs that make you pound your keyboard in legitimate anger, trying to force decisions that can’t be made. Lee and his charge Clementine face some devastating decisions, recurring villains, and plenty of the undead through the original five episodes. It helps that The Walking Dead is episodic, too. Perhaps it’s the insistence on not referring to the shuffling wraiths as zombies, which makes very talkative protagonist and convicted murderer Lee Everett’s discovery of the apocalypse unfolding around him seem all the more urgent and convincing. Wait, Telltale’s The Walking Dead didn’t invent zombies? You could have fooled me, human.

Where can I buy it? Steam, GOG, Epic Games StoreĪh, the episodic zombie adventure game that started it all. The Walking Dead: Season One Developer: Telltale Games Now, admittedly not all of all of the games here feature quite that, diverse in genre as they are, but they all confront the oxymoron of living death with vitality. Zombies are at their best when they’re a heaving, shambling mass, their groans merging together like the resonating frequency of death itself, hungry for the life they can never have again. Just a few zombies are never enough, and ideally you want a proper, full-on zombie apocalypse – or, at least, a Resident Evil style outbreak – if you’re going to have fun with the concept in any game starring the walking dead.
