Telltale's The Walking Dead games are coming back to Steam

[ThreepwoodMighty]

The Walking Dead games were delisted from Steam in late 2018, a victim of the surprise implosion of developer Telltale Games. New series owner Skybound Games later brought them back to the Epic Games Store, and they remain available on Steam for people who have already purchased them. You can also see them there, but not purchase them, if you have a direct link like the ones below, although the store pages no longer appear in searches.

That will soon change, as Skybound announced today that Telltale's The Walking Dead Season 1, Season 2, A New Frontier, and The Final Season will all be re-released on Steam later this week.

https://www.pcgamer.com/telltales-the-walking-dead-games-are-coming-back-to-steam/

 

[BasilZero]

Finally.

Now I can buy the Final Season on Steam to complete my collection.

 

[Duck Sauce]

Welcome back Clem.

 

[Gabbo]

I nearly bought them on EGS thinking this might not occur

 

[SteveWinwood]

its kind of amazing how i haven't heard a single peep about this final season

 

[Cutebrute]

its kind of amazing how i haven't heard a single peep about this final season

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There's really not much out there about it. But all you need to know is that it is good. My girlfriend and I just played through it a few weeks ago, and it would be worth the wait if you wanted to jump in with this Steam release.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

I was going to buy the games through EGS thinking this wouldn't happen. Now I'll buy them on Steam, just like I did the rest. Good news.

 

[ThreepwoodMighty]

Is the same company responsible for The Wolf Among Us 2? Can't see myself buying it trough Epic.

 

[Crono]

Finally.

Now I can buy the Final Season on Steam to complete my collection.

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Same. Happy I waited to purchase this on steam

 

[Hailinel]

Is the same company responsible for The Wolf Among Us 2? Can't see myself buying it trough Epic.

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The Wolf Among Us 2 is being made by the new Telltale Games. As in a new studio with the same name and some of the employees of the original studio.

 

[Th0rnhead]

I'm curious if it'll just be the original versions or if they'll have the graphical enhancements. Probably the former, but it'd be nice. Really the only thing the Epic collection has over the existing Steam versions.

 

[TheYanger]

its kind of amazing how i haven't heard a single peep about this final season

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It's the best since the original.

 

[Arthands]

Likely a combination of poor sales on EGS + high pre-order sales of TWD: Saints & Sinners on Steam

 

[Fishsnot]

Finally.

Now I can buy the Final Season on Steam to complete my collection.

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Yup, same.
Now I'll buy the Final season on Steam.

 

[ThreepwoodMighty]

Likely a combination of poor sales on EGS + high pre-order sales of TWD: Saints & Sinners on Steam

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My guess is that it was a EGS 6 months exclusivity deal.

 

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[Jason Frost]

I'm curious if it'll just be the original versions or if they'll have the graphical enhancements.

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Yeah, I'm wondering that too.

 

[defaltoption]

I wanted it on steam, got sick of waiting and ended up just getting it on console. Screw timed exclusives.

 

[Mass_Pincup]

I'll probably buy it when it's really cheap. I waited a year for it to come to Steam, I can wait a little bit more.

 

[ThreepwoodMighty]

It has been twelve months and one week (15-01-2019 was when it released on EGS)

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Damn, it's been that long? One year exclusivity then.

 

[Dazraell]

Is the same company responsible for The Wolf Among Us 2? Can't see myself buying it trough Epic.

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It's a complicated mess. As far as I'm aware, re-release isn't related to a new Telltale by any capacity. After Telltale closure, The Walking Dead games were taken by Skybound who hired some original team members to complete The Final Season. They also own all of rights to previous games, recent Definitive Edition and they were the ones who made exclusivity deal with EGS.

 

[Samiya]

Everyone should get the Definitive Collection, it is really amazing.

The Final Season is also really, really, really good if you never got a chance to play it

 

[Kelanflyter]

Finally.

Now I can buy the Final Season on Steam to complete my collection.

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I bought Season 4 on Epic during Epic sales and i could have access to my save from the steam version of Seasons 1,2,3
I just had to connect to my Telltale account.

I hope you'll enjoy Season 4. It's the best one after the first one.

 

[Delusibeta]

Yeah, it turns out that this was a bog-standard 12 month EGS exclusivity deal. The interesting thing is that the timer started on the release of the first episode under the deal, which has interesting implications for other episodic games that sign EGS deals (most notably, The Wolf Among Us 2).

 

[Spleenpoker]

Everyone should get the Definitive Collection, it is really amazing.

The Final Season is also really, really, really good if you never got a chance to play it

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How is the Definitive Collection compared to the originals? I only played S1 back in 2012 but I've only heard bad with those collections that came before the definitive, like missing licensed music etc.

 

[OozeMan]

Dang! And I just bought it on EGS thinking it might never release on Steam. Remains, to this day, my only purchase on the EGS store.

 

[JusperX]

Finally.

Now I can buy the Final Season on Steam to complete my collection.

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Sure hope they didn't mean Michonne as one of the 4 seasons.

 

[Zomba13]

its kind of amazing how i haven't heard a single peep about this final season

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The telltale problems overshadowed it which is a shame because it's good.

 

[russbus64]

Have the graphical improvements from the console re-releases come over to the PC versions?

I never played A New Frontier or the Final Season. I was thinking of either replaying on Switch for portability or Xbox One for visual upgrades.

 

[Arsene no Kiseki]

They're releasing today according to skybounds twitter. Not sure why they didnt just say thst in the pr instead of just "this week"

 

[JustAnotherOne]

I wonder whenTWD The definitive series version will be available.

 

[Lukar]

Sucks that the collection is seemingly still exclusive to the EGS, but this is still a good move regardless.

 

[ThereAre4Lights]

The Final Season is on my GOTY list and a few others on the GOTY thread. It's a really good season, best since S1.

 

[Samiya]

Sure hope they didn't mean Michonne as one of the 4 seasons.

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The Definitive Collection includes everything

 

[ThreepwoodMighty]

It's a complicated mess. As far as I'm aware, re-release isn't related to a new Telltale by any capacity. After Telltale closure, The Walking Dead games were taken by Skybound who hired some original team members to complete The Final Season. They also own all of rights to previous games, recent Definitive Edition and they were the ones who made exclusivity deal with EGS.

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Are they also responsible for the EGS exclusivity of The Wolf Among Us 2?

 

[gdt]

Oh finally. Wanna finish this off.

 

[Dazraell]

Are they also responsible for the EGS exclusivity of The Wolf Among Us 2?

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I don't think so. This was a decision of new owners of Telltale, they are the ones who are maintaining remaining Telltale catalogue outside of The Walking Dead games.