Garbage Games: The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct

Adam takes a look at some of the gaming's worst

- Adam Kerr

When you live your life under anavalanche of Steam games, it’s not toosurprising you end up having to wade through piles of dross to get to the good stuff. For the past decade, I’ve waded through the worst of Steam in order to play the quality games I actually own. Finally though, after years of paying for this trash to sit unused in my library, I’ve finally found a use for it. An article series, dedicated to the absolute worst games that I own.

Trawling through, I settled on the perfect opening game. A game that, at one point in my innocent little life I was very excited for, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. I was a naive child at the time, one who hadn’t been burned by corporations cashing in on high-profile franchises. That was about to change.

The game itself had it’s warning signs to anyone with more than five brain cells, I imagine.

Yet, 19 year old me just couldn’t resist the charm of Walking Dead content. It was published by Activision, and we can trust them right? Turns out my confidence was misplaced and, to the surprise of no one but me, a first-person shooter by the studio most famous for Star Wars Kinect was an absolute shambles. I mean, just look at this title screen: