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The Walking Dead: The Final Season

After years on the road facing threats both living and dead, a secluded school might finally be Clementine and AJ's chance for a home. But protecting it will mean sacrifice. In this gripping, emotional final…

71 13 August 2018

The Walking Dead: The Final Season is an adventure developed by Telltale Games, released 13 August 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 8.5 hrs to finish.

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What The Walking Dead: The Final Season is

The Walking Dead: The Final Season is an adventure game developed by Telltale Games and released in 2018. It was published by Skybound Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Telltale Tool.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Walking Dead: The Final Season is a 2018 episodic graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games and later Skybound Games, and the fourth and final main installment in Telltale's The Walking Dead video game series, based on the comic book series of the same name. It consists of four episodes released between August 2018 and March 2019. Taking place some years after The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, the game focuses on Clementine's efforts to raise young Alvin Jr. (AJ) in the post-apocalyptic world, coming to join with a group of troubled teenagers surviving out of their former boarding school. Their path leads them to encounter a hostile group of raiders led by a figure from…
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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 48 achievements to unlock.

Where it sits in the The Walking Dead series

The Walking Dead: The Final Season is the 15th of 35 entries we hold in the The Walking Dead series. The next entry was Overkill's The Walking Dead in 2018. Its critic score of 71 is almost exactly the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Ch 2: Retribution at 85.

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How it was received

The Walking Dead: The Final Season holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 283 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 8.5 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz, 3 GB RAM and nVidia GeForce GTS 450 2GB. 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 15GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

The Walking Dead: The Final Season launched on 13 August 2018, within three weeks of Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells, Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition and The Messenger. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells, Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition, The Messenger.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Walking Dead: The Final Season yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer

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Screenshots

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Quick answers

The Walking Dead: The Final Season — frequently asked questions

When did The Walking Dead: The Final Season come out?
The Walking Dead: The Final Season was released on 13 August 2018 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for The Walking Dead: The Final Season?
At minimum, The Walking Dead: The Final Season needs Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz, 3 GB RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 450 2GB graphics, 15 GB available space of storage.
How long does it take to beat The Walking Dead: The Final Season?
The main story of The Walking Dead: The Final Season takes around 8.5 hrs.
How many GB is The Walking Dead: The Final Season?
The PC version needs about 15 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("15 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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