The Walking Dead: Destinies

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The Walking Dead: Destinies
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Developer(s) Flux Games
Publisher(s) GameMill Entertainment
Platform(s)
ReleaseDecember 1, 2023
Genre(s) Action-adventure
Mode(s) Single-player

The Walking Dead: Destinies is a 2023 action-adventure video game developed by Flux Games and published by GameMill Entertainment. It is based on the first four seasons of the TV series The Walking Dead . The game was announced on August 17, 2023, [1] and released on December 1, 2023. [2]

Critical reception

According to review aggregator Metacritic, the PlayStation 5 version of The Walking Dead: Destinies received "generally unfavorable" reviews, with a score of 29/100 based on 4 reviews. [3] The game has a 0% approval rating on OpenCritic. [4] Ollie Reynolds of Nintendo Life said that "there's absolutely nothing here that has been executed well; it's a game that is simply rife with technical blunders, terrible production values, and broken mechanics." [6] Wesley Yin-Poole of IGN considered it a contender for "worst game of 2023", along with Skull Island: Rise of Kong which had also been published by GameMill. [9]

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References

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  2. Dinsdale, Ryan (October 19, 2023). "The Walking Dead: Destinies Arrives This November". IGN. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
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  6. 1 2 Reynolds, Ollie (November 23, 2023). "Review: The Walking Dead: Destinies (Switch) - One Of The Worst Games Of The Year". Nintendo Life. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
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  8. "Análisis The Walking Dead: Destinies, peor que una infección zombi". Vandal (in European Spanish). November 25, 2023. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
  9. Yin-Poole, Wesley (November 20, 2023). "The Walking Dead: Destinies the Latest 'Worst Game of 2023' Contender From Company Behind King Kong". IGN. Retrieved November 27, 2023.