The Escapists: The Walking Dead
Manage your escape from an onslaught of walkers in this cross-over between the time management escape game The Escapists and the blockbuster zombie franchise The Walking Dead. Using the retro graphical style…
The Escapists: The Walking Dead is an arcade developed by Mouldy Toof Studios, released 30 September 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac.
What The Escapists: The Walking Dead is
The Escapists: The Walking Dead is an arcade game developed by Mouldy Toof Studios and released in 2015. It was published by Team17. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Multimedia Fusion. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Manage your escape from an onslaught of walkers in this cross-over between the time management escape game The Escapists and the blockbuster zombie franchise The Walking Dead. Using the retro graphical style of The Escapists, the game gives you control of Rick Grimes as he tries to secure the safety of a number of familiar characters by seeking out a safe escape route from each area, fending off the zombie hordes and keeping as many of them alive as possible as they escape. The game will faithfully keep to the timeline of the comics, so as you progress you'll move through a series of familiar locations.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 24 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Walking Dead series
The Escapists: The Walking Dead is the seventh of 35 entries we hold in the The Walking Dead series. The next entry was The Walking Dead: No Man's Land in 2015. Its critic score of 64 is 6 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Ch 2: Retribution at 85.
How it was received
The Escapists: The Walking Dead holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 25% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core CPU 2.5 gHz, 2 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics 4000, Nvidia GeForce 8000, ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
The Escapists: The Walking Dead launched on 30 September 2015, within three weeks of Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.
Official trailer
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