Mobile game · 2012

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead: Season One (also known as The Walking Dead: The Game) is an episodic interactive drama graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games. Based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic book series, the game consists of five episodes, released between April and November 2012. It is available for Android, iOS, Kindle Fire HDX, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game is the first of The Walking Dead video game series published by Telltale.

Estimated daily players

~37,0000.0%

Range 2.9K–1.5M

Estimated total players

~740,0000.0%

Range 290K–10M

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Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Jul 26, 2012Android iOSACB MA15+USK 18GRAC 18CLASS IND 16ESRB RPPEGI AO

Adventure Point-and-click Action Drama Horror Survival

Get the game

Google Play App Store (iPhone)

What the estimate rests on

Google Play 40%
Steam 27%
App Store 21%
Reddit 7.3%
Twitch 5.2%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play The Walking Dead, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Google Play, App Store, Steam, Reddit, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~37,000

0.0%

Range 2.9K – 1.5M

Built from the live counts: Steam concurrents, Discord and Reddit members online, Twitch viewers.

Estimated total players

~740,000

0.0%

Range 290K – 10M

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

2 readings · last 2 days

Estimated daily players over time

from live counts

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for The Walking Dead per calendar month, newest first
Month	Estimated total players	Change
August 2026	~3,000,000	—

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed The Walking Dead where it is sold.

Google Play ratings

1,020,342

Average rating: 4.2
Installs: 10M+

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

App Store ratings

4,875

0.0%

Average rating: 4.2

Steam players in game

222

Reviews: 80,146

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Community signals

How many people gather around The Walking Dead outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Reddit members

146,792

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Twitch viewers

116

Live channels: 22

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Not tracked for The Walking Dead: Discord, YouTube. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

Storyline

Play as Lee Everett, a convicted criminal, who has been given a second chance at life in a world devastated by the undead. With corpses returning to life and survivors stopping at nothing to maintain their own safety, protecting an orphaned girl named Clementine may offer him redemption in a world gone to hell.

Trailers

Story Trailer

Debut Trailer

Screenshots

Frequently asked questions

How many people play The Walking Dead?

We estimate that about 740,000 people have played The Walking Dead — plausibly between 290K and 10M. Around 37,000 of them play on a given day, in a range of 2.9K and 1.5M. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Google Play, App Store, Steam, Reddit and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is The Walking Dead still active?

Yes. The Walking Dead is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the The Walking Dead player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 8, 2026.