The Walking Dead: Survivors is a game set in the grim, zombie-filled future of the comic books. You’re leading a group of humans, fixing up a ruined town and trying to protect yourself from the undead and humans alike. The …
The Walking Dead: Survivors is a game set in the grim, zombie-filled future of the comic books. You’re leading a group of humans, fixing up a ruined town and trying to protect yourself from the undead and humans alike.
The game plays out pretty much exactly as you’d expect, not that that’s a bad thing. You’ll spend most of your time gathering resources, building and upgrading your base and training up survivors to make them better at zombie mashing. And then there are the fights.
These play out a little bit like tower defense scraps. A horde wanders in and you need to place your attackers on towers. Some of them fire guns, some of them swing melee weapons. You also get AoE attacks like dynamite and molotov cocktails that can take out big groups of zombies in one fell swoop.
There are missions to complete that drive the story along. Rebuild the police station, move a little further along with the narrative. It’s a simple rhythm and it’s one that’s going to be familiar with anyone who’s played a resource management game on mobile in the last ten years.
Everything is presented with the level of polish you’d expect from a game built around such a massive franchise. There are plenty of familiar faces here too – ones you can recruit to your cause or ones who are just there to offer advice or try and mess up everything you’ve accomplished.
The Walking Dead: Survivors does a pretty decent job of capturing the barbaric heart of the comics – everything here is life or death, whether you’re cutting down some wood or exploring a fogged up section of the map.
And it all boils down to an entertaining, time-consuming distraction. You’ll want your settlement to thrive, which will draw you deeper into the games ecosystem. This is an engaging resource management game that has enough twists and zombies to keep your interest for a long while.
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