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The Walking Dead Onslaught

Fight your fears head-on in The Walking Dead Onslaught, the official VR game of AMC's The Walking Dead. Experience an all-new exclusive TWD story, defend yourself with real-motion melee and ranged combat, and…

55 29 September 2020

The Walking Dead Onslaught is an adventure developed by Survios, released 29 September 2020 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Oculus VR and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Walking Dead Onslaught is

The Walking Dead Onslaught is an adventure game developed by Survios and released in 2020. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Oculus VR, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Fight your fears head-on in The Walking Dead Onslaught, the official VR game of AMC's The Walking Dead. Experience an all-new exclusive TWD story, defend yourself with real-motion melee and ranged combat, and confront both the horrors and humanity of the apocalypse.
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How it plays

It is played from a virtual reality perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the The Walking Dead series

The Walking Dead Onslaught is the 20th of 35 entries we hold in the The Walking Dead series. It arrived 8 months after The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners. The next entry was Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead in 2020. Its critic score of 55 is 15 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Ch 2: Retribution at 85.

See all 35 The Walking Dead games in release order →

How it was received

The Walking Dead Onslaught holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 18 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Walking Dead Onslaught launched on 29 September 2020, within three weeks of Hades, Hades, Genshin Impact and Mafia: Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Hades, Hades, Genshin Impact, Mafia: Definitive Edition.

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When did The Walking Dead Onslaught come out?
The Walking Dead Onslaught was released on 29 September 2020 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Oculus VR, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR.

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