what are some games similar to The Walking Dead?

Anti-John

I'm looking for games that have a really amazing story and similar game mechanics such as: having choices affect the game, conversation trees, cinematic gameplay etc. I can think of some games I've already played that are similar such as: Heavy Rain, Mass Effect (not that close, but still a little close) and I can also think of some games that I suspect are similar from what I've heard/seen such as: Fallout or Back to the Future. I've wanted to play a Fallout game for the longest time but never got around to it because I really like the idea of complete freedom and how "no two playthroughs are alike." Are there any other games similar to that and Walking Dead? I've also been interested in playing BTTF because I'm a huge fan of the films and I liked the demo and I also loved the premise of the story. How does it compare to Walking Dead?

Aside from anything I've mentioned, do you have any other suggestions?

MateusWolf

The only ones i know are Fahrenheit and Heavy rain, you can choose what do you want to say, and to do, and it affects the storyline. just like the walking dead :rolleyes:

CarScar

Hm, I'm not too familiar with the genre outside of the really mainstream games (The Walking Dead, Heavy Rain, Mass Effect). You could try inFamous, I suppose. The gameplay between The Walking Dead and inFamous are much different (inFamous is largely an action-cetral game) but it does have those key decision moments that really define your character. Although the decisions don't have as much as an impact as they should and they are largely white and black decisions (good vs. bad) in contrast to The Walking Dead decisions which are usually more so in varying shades of grey... I still found the game enjoyable, for the most part. I'd recommend the second inFamous though (everyone likes the first one more but ehh...).

If you want to feel a real impact with the story you could try To The Moon... although games like that really require a certain taste. The graphics are very retro style (for the lack of better words), there's little choices, and there's literally no gameplay involved. The story will leave you in tears as well as interest you though. Can't say that with any authority throughout the game though because I have not completed it as of yet though...

Wish I could be more help, I honestly can't think of many games that are similar to The Walking Dead, neither of those games are really that much similar to it. Ergh, maybe someone else can help you?

Anti-John

MateusWolf wrote: »

The only ones i know are Fahrenheit and Heavy rain, you can choose what do you want to say, and to do, and it affects the storyline. just like the walking dead :rolleyes:

I already played Heavy Rain (which I mentioned), but I wonder how Fahrenheit compares to it. Is it a big step back in terms of gameplay and polish etc? Or does it feel as good as Heavy Rain?

Anti-John

CarScar wrote: »

Hm, I'm not too familiar with the genre outside of the really mainstream games (The Walking Dead, Heavy Rain, Mass Effect). You could try inFamous, I suppose. The gameplay between The Walking Dead and inFamous are much different (inFamous is largely an action-cetral game) but it does have those key decision moments that really define your character. Although the decisions don't have as much as an impact as they should and they are largely white and black decisions (good vs. bad) in contrast to The Walking Dead decisions which are usually more so in varying shades of grey... I still found the game enjoyable, for the most part. I'd recommend the second inFamous though (everyone likes the first one more but ehh...).

If you want to feel a real impact with the story you could try To The Moon... although games like that really require a certain taste. The graphics are very retro style (for the lack of better words), there's little choices, and there's literally no gameplay involved. The story will leave you in tears as well as interest you though. Can't say that with any authority throughout the game though because I have not completed it as of yet though...

Wish I could be more help, I honestly can't think of many games that are similar to The Walking Dead, neither of those games are really that much similar to it. Ergh, maybe someone else can help you?

I already have both Infamous 1 and 2 and they're great games and somewhat similar to Walking Dead, but essentially, they're not at all similar haha. To The Moon looks interesting, I might give it a try. Thanks.

watertommyz

The Walking Dead is kind of unique plot-wise for a video gamee. If you want similar gameplay, then I suggest playing other Telltale games as well as other point-and-click adventures.

As for a deep emotional story? I simply must recommend Silent Hill 2, and if you like that, go play 1 and 3 in that order but Silent Hill 2 works on so many levels by itself and is the best one of the original three.

If you're looking for another great zombie game, then you must absolutely must partake of the masterpiece of the Resident Evil REmake. It's not a point-and-click, but it's one of the best zombie games ever made.

So, Silent Hill 2, Resident Evil, and other Telltale/adventure games are my suggestions.

Maximus123458

I played Jurassic Park The Game and i thought it's really good. It has characters you can quickly warm up to, lots of intense scenes. The only downsides are that you're given less freedom then The Walking Dead (Not being able to walk by yourself for one.) and the game is a giant quick time event. It's atmosphere and characters however make up for it and i actually kinda enjoyed the QTEs...a lot.

I still recommend you should take a look at it.

EDIT: Oh, there's not much choices in there though. There's a one single choice at the end of the game that lets you see one of the two endings, but i don't think there's anything else but that.

ArthurV

I absolutely adore Alpha Protocol, despite the middling reviews it received. It uses a similar timed choice/dialog system, and its consequences to gameplay are profound. I loved the spy setting, and the option to model your character's morality after one of the three JBs (James Bond, Jack Bauer, or Jason Bourne) was very clever. If you play Alpha Protocol as a turn-of-the-millennium CRPG (think Planescape Torment or Deus Ex) rather than as an action game, you will likely enjoy it as I did.

thestalkinghead

ArthurV wrote: »

I absolutely adore Alpha Protocol, despite the middling reviews it received. It uses a similar timed choice/dialog system, and its consequences to gameplay are profound. I loved the spy setting, and the option to model your character's morality after one of the three JBs (James Bond, Jack Bauer, or Jason Bourne) was very clever. If you play Alpha Protocol as a turn-of-the-millennium CRPG (think Planescape Torment or Deus Ex) rather than as an action game, you will likely enjoy it as I did.

humm, i bought that when it was super cheap on steam, but i think i was to tired to play it and i forgot about it, i guess now i have seen a personal recommendation i will give it another go

Lil Kis

Yeah Heavy Rain and Farenheit are the only games that come to mind. They are excellent games like the walking dead too.

Tornreaper

Just look for point and click games. However they get less attention then mobile games so you need to go out of your way to find them.

double_u

I second Alpha Protocol for the story despite the poor reviews, which in sort of deserved. Its story and dialogue options is really good, but the main problem is the game is quite buggy. There are workarounds though, and the game's bugs did not prevent me from playing it start to finish and enjoying it. Plus, the dialogue options are like TWD's...other characters remember your choices and would react accordingly, sometimes right away other times over a delayed period.

I would also recommend Dragon Age Origins and the Witcher series. Like Alpha Protocol, game play is not the same as TWD, but the stories and choices made seem to reflect what you enjoyed in TWD.

RAnthonyMahan

While it's not very Walking Dead-like, I definitely recommend playing Fallout (1, 2, or New Vegas. Skip 3. ). If you're looking for a non-linear, story-driven game, you won't be disappointed. And thanks for reminding me I've been neglecting this playthrough of Fallout 1. Other good story-heavy RPGs are Deus Ex, System Shock 2, and Planescape: Torment.

If you want something a little closer to The Walking Dead (i.e.: limited gameplay with the focus on a ridiculously emotional plot), I suggest To The Moon and Katawa Shoujo. The latter is free.

Oh, and there's Spec Ops: The Line. At first it seems like a normal run-of-the-mill military shooter, but then it takes an...interesting direction.

mmitchell

If you're going to go down the VN route (no QT events, few puzzles, but lots of relationships/conversations/branching), be warned that some of them are really long-winded. I know a lot of people like Katawa Shoujo, but after 30 minutes of clicking through intro chatter and having made only a couple non-meaningful choices I just couldn't take it anymore. For a relatively short-but-good intro to VNs, I'd suggest Don't Take It Personally Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story. For VN-style games with some more interactivity, Long Live The Queen and Always Remember Me are pretty good, although both are unrepentantly girly if that bothers you. This doesn't stop LLTQ from being brutally hard, though. It took me several tries just to make it out alive, and probably several weeks to get what I considered a good ending.

BrendanK

"LA Noire" involves your decisions to steer/drive the story.
And I can't believe that no one has yet mentioned "The Pandora Directive" with Tex Murphy, the ultimate old-school PC adventure game that I'll always remember. It has free movement, object searching/mixing, puzzles, branching conversations and scenarios and live action cinematics.

Jaded X Gamer

I'd recommend Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors for the Nintendo DS. It's not so much cinematic as a novel with occasional still pictures, but the story and characters are very interesting and the gameplay segments are traditional point and click adventure style. Your choices in that game don't really change the story but change which parts of the story you get and to see the true ending you have to play through it more than once. Just be warned, lot of reading and kind of out there concepts in 999.

If tricky choices and branching dialogue is what you really want then Fallout: New Vegas is really good. It was made by the same people who did Alpha Protocol, which a few other people have recommended. And you don't need to play the previous Fallouts to enjoy the story, all though if you wanted to you can get the originals from GoG.com for like $10 each.

I also definitely agree with RAnthonyMahan on skipping Fallout 3 if you want interesting dialogue, meaningful choices, or anything other than shooting stuff in the face for weeks on end.

GoldenClaw09

There is the Jurassic Park game its made by telltale and it has simaler machenics but you play every main character also there is la noire and other little games but i would say Jurassic Park its a good story game with less freedom then the walking dead but you really get into the story and feel connections with the characters not but only sometimes your dessicions affect the story like who dies or if this character is coming with you

ZeroShoot

ArthurV wrote: »

I absolutely adore Alpha Protocol, despite the middling reviews it received. It uses a similar timed choice/dialog system, and its consequences to gameplay are profound. I loved the spy setting, and the option to model your character's morality after one of the three JBs (James Bond, Jack Bauer, or Jason Bourne) was very clever. If you play Alpha Protocol as a turn-of-the-millennium CRPG (think Planescape Torment or Deus Ex) rather than as an action game, you will likely enjoy it as I did.

I share that opinion, despite some minor flaws, it is an enjoyable game overall.

Drake Sigar

Alpha Pro-

ArthurV wrote: »

I absolutely adore Alpha Protocol, despite the middling reviews it received. It uses a similar timed choice/dialog system, and its consequences to gameplay are profound. I loved the spy setting, and the option to model your character's morality after one of the three JBs (James Bond, Jack Bauer, or Jason Bourne) was very clever. If you play Alpha Protocol as a turn-of-the-millennium CRPG (think Planescape Torment or Deus Ex) rather than as an action game, you will likely enjoy it as I did.

Damnit. Well I'll chime in anyway. For the first chapter Alpha Protocol is a boring straight-laced stealth shooter full of bland characters in a bland Middle-Eastern setting. I think that's where most people bounced off, which is very unfortunate because suddenly, everything changes. You visit more exotic locales, meet James Bond style villains, discover how the dialogue options and your in-game actions mix brilliantly to create this insanely deep RPG experience. Alpha Protocol is my favourite RPG since Vampire Bloodlines.

If you're looking for the closest comparison to TellTale's The Walking Dead, it would have to be Fahrenheit. Give it a shot, if you're not hooked in five minutes I'll eat my socks (seriously, nobody can walk away after an intro like that). From what little I've seen of Heavy Rain it doesn't hold a candle to Fahrenheit (that's Indigo Prophecy to you Americans).

Mornai

Drake Sigar wrote: »

If you're looking for the closest comparison to TellTale's The Walking Dead, it would have to be Fahrenheit. Give it a shot, if you're not hooked in five minutes I'll eat my socks (seriously, nobody can walk away after an intro like that). From what little I've seen of Heavy Rain it doesn't hold a candle to Fahrenheit (that's Indigo Prophecy to you Americans).

Hey, i prefer Fahrenheit and I'm American!

I've played both Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain, and i think they're both fantastic. A lot of people say Fahrenheit gets worse at about the halfway point, and say that it feels rushed and the story just goes to hell.

I would say, in comparison to Walking Dead control-wise, both games are relatively even. They both have different endings based on your choices(Heavy Rain has more), and the story is great in both as well.

Drake Sigar

Mornai wrote: »

Hey, i prefer Fahrenheit and I'm American!

I've played both Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain, and i think they're both fantastic. A lot of people say Fahrenheit gets worse at about the halfway point, and say that it feels rushed and the story just goes to hell.

I would say, in comparison to Walking Dead control-wise, both games are relatively even. They both have different endings based on your choices(Heavy Rain has more), and the story is great in both as well.

Next you'll be telling me you throw U's into everything. Colour, honour, armour, etc. Americans have to call it Indigo Prophecy, that's the law!

Fahrenheit does get dodgy about three quarters of the way through and suddenly starts to mix elements from Terminator and Dragonball Z... not sure where they were going with that. Unfortunately they ran out of time so the story got slashed a bit. Up until that point it's an excellent game though, using multi-angled cameras to ramp up tension on par with Ingorious Basterds, a timed dialogue system which the lovely Alpha Protocol adopted, and a really weird but enticing murder mystery where you control the murderer and the investigators. Playing the cops I was very tempted to miss clues and do badly on purpose! Never done that in a game before.

Heavy Rain makes advances too, but it doesn't quite gel with me. One of the first things I learned back in literature class was never ever start your story with 'So and so rises from his fluffy marshmallow pillow, the beautiful sun bathing him in warm comforting light and Disney birds sing around unicorns that shoot rainbows out of their bums...' because the readers will know where this is heading, it can only go downhill from there. Who knows, maybe it gets better further in.

Hudomonkey

Is it just me that actually really liked it when Fahrenheit went crazy?

Another game of a similar type is Deadly premonition which is pretty unique...

Andorxor

Jade Empire

Rock114

The story of Spec Ops: The Line was really great, but the game clocks in at aroun 4 hours so you might wanna look up a playthrough of it. To give you an idea, it's very much in the vein of Apocalypse Now, as you get to watch the characters slowly lose it over the course of their mission. The story was pretty well done, but the gameplay is very "meh".

Mikejames

Rock114 wrote: »

The story of Spec Ops: The Line was really great, but the game clocks in at aroun 4 hours so you might wanna look up a playthrough of it. To give you an idea, it's very much in the vein of Apocalypse Now, as you get to watch the characters slowly lose it over the course of their mission. The story was pretty well done, but the gameplay is very "meh".

The Line was surprisingly really good, but I wouldn't recommend watching a playthrough to decide if you were interested.

It was definitely the writing that made it worth playing, but a lot of the heavier parts of the story relied on you personally making a heat of the moment choice, which wouldn't have the same impact if you just looked it up on youtube first.

Salt Lick

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Shadow of Memories yet. It's kind of like Back to the Future: The Game but the aim of the game is to prevent yourself from dying from this mysterious figure who kills you at the beginning. Without spoiling too much you're reawakened by a djin who offer to help you by giving you a time travelling device which you are able to use at key moments of the game to help you survive.

At certain stages you are given choices of what you can say and these along with your actions do affect the outcome of the game. The game is really worth playing just for the story alone.

CornBRED-X

Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair 2, Space Ace, Fahrenheit (AKA Indigo Prophecy), and Heavy Rain; although none have as good of a story (Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain's stories are really awful in spots) but their all still pretty decent.

danielreis

Back To The Future The Game, La Noire and Heavy Rain

fabi777

There's gonna be a new game called The wolf among us, it's from telltale too and it looks like the walking dead graphics.

Bioshock Infinite WD

Even better graphics then Walking Dead, looks very good.

minic78

Salt Lick wrote: »

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Shadow of Memories yet. It's kind of like Back to the Future: The Game but the aim of the game is to prevent yourself from dying from this mysterious figure who kills you at the beginning. Without spoiling too much you're reawakened by a djin who offer to help you by giving you a time travelling device which you are able to use at key moments of the game to help you survive.

At certain stages you are given choices of what you can say and these along with your actions do affect the outcome of the game. The game is really worth playing just for the story alone.

Can definitely second this recommendation (it's called Shadow of Destiny in North America). It has a very similar vibe to Fahrenheit, but the gameplay can be frustrating at times.

Also really liked Spec Ops: The Line, but none of these games are really similar to TWD, they just have engaging storylines more than anything.

Harpadarpa

Heavy Rain was kinda close.

TTaing987

The uncessesary sex scenes and nudity in heavy rain kind of killed it for me. Why does that need to be there? I don't get it! It doesn't advance the plot or give me a hint on what to do next or even show a character's emotions.

Heavy Rain would have been amazing if it just toned down itself sometimes

Bioshock Infinite WD

I would say the same about Fahrenheit, it seems David Cage does not know how to write female characters.

Skandis

Planescape Torment, if you can get over the dated graphics.

TTaing987 wrote: »

The uncessesary sex scenes and nudity in heavy rain kind of killed it for me. Why does that need to be there? I don't get it! It doesn't advance the plot or give me a hint on what to do next or even show a character's emotions.

It's meant to establish that the person you're playing is a normal guy with normal routines. Quantum Dreams are noticeably ham-fisted at pulling this off though, often making the player often feel more disjointed from the game than before.

Bioshock Infinite WD

I know, they are far from being Biowere or CD Project Red, they do not know how to handle both female characters and sex scenes.

CornflakeDude

Façade

Chrono85

If you enjoy a game with a good story, then you may really like Planescape: Torment. It is very text heavy and has no voices, so be prepared to read a lot if you play it. However, it has some very memorable characters, and maybe the best story ever told in a video/computer game. It's right up there with The Walking Dead in the quality of the storytelling, but it is a Baldur's Gate style RPG, so the gameplay is very different.

Omid's cat

Deus Ex. Played it long time ago. I killed important person once, just to see the game over. It didn't happen. Game was going on without that character. I know some people would like to see it in TWD.

Beginning of Fallout 3. In the vault. I enjoyed this part more than constant shooting, traveling and dealing with bugs outside.

And if you are looking for good stories... I loved the story and atmosphere of Silent Hill 2. Bioshock's story was even better if you care about the audio diaries. A lot of politics, philosophy, truth about people, damn clever game.

Bioshock Infinite WD

I know, and I am one of those got to search every part of the map so I found most of those audio log, if only a new Bioshock would come a little more quickly then five years, but that is just a small complaint from someone that adores that series, big surprise.

Abel

I would recommend Dreamfall. No choice real system, but there is a strong similarity according to easy adventure gameplay and a strong story. It really is an awesome game. If you don't mind old graphics and classic gameplay also The Longest Journey (first part of the series) is worth a shot. You can pick them up at gog.