The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
The Walking Dead: A New Frontieris an episodic graphic adventure game based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic book series developed by Telltale Games. It is Telltale's third season of its The Walking…
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is an adventure developed by Telltale Games, released 20 December 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android. The main story takes about 7.3 hrs to finish.
What The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is an adventure game developed by Telltale Games and released in 2016. It was published by Skybound Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Telltale Tool.
The premise, in the publisher's words
When family is all you have left…how far will you go to protect it? 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? As Javier, a young man determined to find the family taken from him, you meet a young girl who has experienced her own unimaginable loss. Her name is Clementine, and your fates are bound together in a story where every choice you make could be your last.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 30 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Walking Dead series
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is the tenth of 35 entries we hold in the The Walking Dead series. The next entry was Pinball FX3: The Walking Dead Pinball in 2017. Its critic score of 75 is 5 points above 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 Walking Dead: A New Frontier holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 361 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7.3 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 3 GB RAM and Nvidia GTS 450+ with 1024MB+ VRAM (excluding GT). At 3GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB.
What it launched against
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier launched on 20 December 2016, within three weeks of Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Darksiders Warmastered Edition and Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Darksiders Warmastered Edition, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Walking Dead: A New Frontier yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
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