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The Walking Dead

Original title: The Walking Dead - April 24, 2012

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Adventure Point-and-click

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Director:Dennis Lenart

Studio:Telltale Games

Stars:Chuck Kourouklis, Dave Fennoy, Gavin Hammon - Full View

Soundtrack:Original score by Jared Emerson-Johnson (full OST bundled with the Game of the Year Edition)

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D.I.C.E. Award for Adventure Game of the Year

Winner

2012

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International Mobile Gaming Award for Excellence in Storytelling

Winner

2013

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Game Details

Developer

Telltale Games

Publisher

Telltale Games

Studio

Telltale Games

Genres

Adventure, Point-and-click

Platforms

PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360, Xbox One, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Linux, Android, iOS, PlayStation Vita

Release Date

April 24, 2012

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Game Engine

Telltale Tool

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The Walking Dead: Season One (also known as The Walking Dead: The Game) is an episodic interactive drama graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games. Based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic book series, the game consists of five episodes, released between April and November 2012. It is available for Android, iOS, Kindle Fire HDX, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game is the first of The Walking Dead video game series published by Telltale.

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Crew & Contributors 4

Jared Emerson-Johnson

Audio & Music • Composer

Dennis Lenart

Direction • Game Director

Eric Parsons

Direction • Game Director

Jake Rodkin

Direction • Game Director

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D.I.C.E. Award for Adventure Game of the Year

International Mobile Gaming Award for Excellence in Storytelling

Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year

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Winner

2013

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Data aggregated from 4 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Wikidata, Metacritic

Last updated: 15.07.2026

Business

Budget

Not disclosed

RevenueReported

28M+ episodes sold by July 2014

8.5M by end of 2012; Guinness World Record holder for best-selling episodic video game

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Telltale-reported episode sales; Episode 1 passed 1M copies within 20 days. No budget disclosed.

Time to Beat

Main Story10h

Main + Extras13h

Completionist15h

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English

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French

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Spanish (Spain)

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Content Rating

Violence

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Violência (Violence)

Strong Language

Sexual Themes

Drug Reference

Intense Violence

Drug and Alcohol Reference

Blood and Gore

PEGI 18

GRAC 19+

USK 18

CLASS_IND 16

ESRB M

ACB MA 15+

System Requirements

Minimum

CPU:2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent

RAM:3 GB RAM, Hard Disk Space: 2 GB Space Free, Video Card: ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM (Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics),Direct X 9.0c

Sound:Direct X 9.0c sound device.Mouse & Keyboard

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