The Walking Dead : the Final Season - wikipedia The Walking Dead : the Final Season `` The Walking Dead : Season Four '' redirects here. For the fourth season of the television series, see The Walking Dead ( season 4 ). The Walking Dead : The Final Season Developer ( s ) Telltale Games ( episodes 1 -- 2 ) Skybound Games ( episodes 3 -- 4 ) Publisher ( s ) Telltale Games Composer ( s ) Jared Emerson - Johnson Series The Walking Dead Engine Telltale Tool Platform ( s ) Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch Release Episode 1 August 14, 2018 Episode 2 September 25, 2018 Episode 3 2018 Episode 4 2019 Genre ( s ) Graphic adventure Mode ( s ) Single - player The Walking Dead : The Final Season ( also known as The Walking Dead : Season Four ) is an episodic adventure game developed by Telltale Games, and the fourth main game in their The Walking Dead video game series, based on Robert Kirkman 's comic book series of the same name. The game represents the first major release by Telltale after a major restructuring ; it was aimed to return to themes and elements from the first season, The game was expected to be the concluding story involving Clementine, taking place a few years after the events of The Walking Dead : A New Frontier. The game was anticipated to be released over four episodes, with the first episode released on August 14, 2018 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. However, due to the sudden near - closure of Telltale Games on September 21, 2018, the last two episodes will be overseen by Skybound Entertainment, Kirkman 's production company. Contents 1 Gameplay 2 Plot 3 Episodes 4 Development 5 Reception 5.1 Episode 1 - Done Running 5.2 Episode 2 - Suffer The Children 6 References 7 External links Gameplay As with other games in The Walking Dead series, The Final Season is a graphic adventure game, where the player controls the protagonist Clementine as she struggles to survive in the wake of a zombie apocalypse. The player can move Clementine around the environment to examine items, initiate conversation trees with non-player characters, and progress in the game. Decisions made by the player can affect future episodes, and The Final Season can use previous saved games from The Walking Dead to bring a player 's choices from these games into The Final Season. Players that have not played previous seasons, or who may want to adjust choices made affecting Clementine 's character, will be able to use a web - based Story Builder tool to create a cloud - based save game that can be used to feed into the game. This also addresses issues with various save game limitations due to platform transitions over the course of the series ( for example, previous saves from the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 from the first two seasons are not compatible with The Final Season ). In portions of the game, the player will be required to react to quick time events in action - driven scenes, such as escaping from a `` walker '' ( the name for zombies in the series ). Failure to complete the events typically results in the death of Clementine or another key character, requiring the player to retry the event. The Final Season introduces more open - ended action sequences that give the player more control during the sequence. Plot Some years after the events of A New Frontier, Clementine has continued to raise AJ, recalling Lee 's own lessons he taught her. They drive along and stop at a train station to scavenge for food. Inside, they find a cellar with a well - stocked supply of food, but the door is rigged with a grenade, and the noise from the blast draws a walker horde. Whilst driving to escape, Clementine crashes the car, and as she blacks out, she sees someone grabbing AJ. Clementine awakens within the ruins of a schoolhouse. She meets Marlon, the leader of a group of teenagers from the school, and finds they have also been taking care of AJ while she recovered. Clementine and AJ meet the other kids, learning that they have been alone for some time after being abandoned by the school staff but have found ways to survive by hunting and fishing from nearby woods and using traps to ward off walkers outside the school grounds. As she gets to know the others and helps AJ learn appropriate social skills, Clementine learns about the loss of a set of twin sisters about a year prior that still troubles the children, particularly Tenn, the younger brother of the siblings. Marlon warns Clementine they are running low on food, the safe area around the school becoming smaller over time, and has her help the next day with hunting and fishing. Neither effort secures enough food, and Clementine suggests returning to the train station to see what food supplies survived the grenade blast, despite the station being outside of the designated safe zone. Clementine and AJ enter the station to secure the food but are confronted by a man named Abel, who demands a ration of the food at gunpoint. After either complying with or subduing Abel, Clementine and the rest of the group make it back to the school, reporting on their encounter. That evening, through the pipe system in the school, Clementine hears two voices arguing, and finds Marlon and Brody, another resident, having a heated discussion in the cellar. Brody reveals to Clementine that Abel is part of a raider group that Marlon had traded the twins to in exchange for safety. Furious at the reveal, Marlon hits her with a flashlight giving her a deep head gash. Before she dies of brain trauma, Brody reveals to Clementine that Marlon also intends to trade her and AJ should the raiders return. In a state of panic, Marlon leaves Brody to turn and locks Clementine in the cellar. Clementine dispatches the re-animated Brody and escapes the cellar to find Marlon being held at gunpoint by AJ, drawing the attention of the rest of the group. Marlon takes the gun from AJ and tries to frame Clementine for Brody 's death in an attempt to get the group to turn on her. Clementine is able to convince the other children of Marlon 's wrongdoings, and eventually, Marlon surrenders. As the others discuss what to do with Marlon, he is shot and killed by AJ. Despite Clementine and AJ 's attempts to make amends, the other children vote to have the pair evicted from the school. Outside, they run into Abel and another member of the raiders, who Clementine is shocked to find is Lilly, a woman who Lee and Kenny had forced out of their group after leaving Macon, Georgia. Despite her attempts to negotiate with Clementine to convince the other kids to give themselves over to her group, she refuses and they start to hunt her and AJ down, during which AJ is shot in the stomach. The pair are saved by James, a former member of the Whisperers, who reveals to them the raiders are forcibly recruiting people to fight in their war against a rival community. James tends to AJ 's wounds and accompanies them back to the school the next morning, before departing on his own. Despite some of the children 's resentment towards Clementine and AJ, they allow them back in so that AJ can have his wounds treated. Clementine warns them about Lilly and the raiders, and they make plans to prepare the school grounds for an attack. Two weeks go by without the raiders ' incoming attack, putting everyone on edge. After playing a game of truth or dare to ease tensions, the children go to check on final preparations. The player can choose to have Clementine accompany Louis or Violet, and in either case, express romantic feelings for these characters. Soon after, the raiders arrive at the school, looking to capture more children. In the midst of the battle, Lilly inadvertently kills one of the kids, Mitch. Clementine gets into a fight with Abel that ends with them falling off a balcony, breaking Abel 's leg. After Clementine saves either Violet or Louis from being kidnapped, Lilly and the raiders escape, and the remaining children count their losses, which include Omar, Aasim, and whichever person Clementine did not save. They vow to get them back and as Abel is now their prisoner, they intend to interrogate him for the location of the raider camp. Episodes The game is separated into four episodes, released every six weeks. No. overall No. in season Title Directed by Written by Original release date 16 `` Done Running '' Chris Rebbert, Vahram Antonian Jessica Krause, Adam Esquenazi Douglas, Mary Kenney, Lauren Mee August 14, 2018 ( 2018 - 08 - 14 ) Clementine and AJ join a new group made entirely of children set up in Ericson School for Troubled Youth. Clementine aims to prove their worth to the group by helping out while AJ has trouble fitting in. They learn the recent loss of twin sisters, Sophie and Minerva, has left many in the community heartbroken. After a tense encounter with a stranger who has been stealing the group 's food, Clementine learns the secret behind how Ericson has remained safe for so long. The episode ends with AJ making a troubling decision of his own. 17 `` Suffer the Children '' Chris Rieser James Windeler, Mary Kenny September 25, 2018 ( 2018 - 09 - 25 ) Clementine and AJ are forced to leave Ericson, and they run into a figure from Clementine 's past, now a new threat to their safety. Helped by a former Whisperer, the pair returns to the school to help the students prepare for an enemy attack. After the raiders make their move, Clementine is forced to choose between two friends, and prepares for vengeance against the raiders with the remaining kids. 18 `` Broken Toys '' TBA TBA TBA 19 `` Take Us Back '' TBA TBA TBA Development Announced during the July 2017 San Diego Comic Con, The Walking Dead : The Final Season, is scheduled to launch as a four - episode series on August 14, 2018 for Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, with a Nintendo Switch version to launch later that year. Clementine will return as the lead character, voiced by Melissa Hutchinson, as Telltale found that fans of the series were not pleased with how little interactivity there was with Clementine in A New Frontier. Telltale wanted to have the final season call back to what fans had praised about the first season, and knew they needed to make Clementine the focus. With this direction, Telltale decided to make this the final season for The Walking Dead series so that they can create a satisfactory conclusion to Clementine 's story arc. For this purpose, Telltale brought back Gary Whitta, the writer for the first season and `` 400 Days '' content, to help close out Clementine 's story. The story will follow from A New Frontier with Clementine having rescued AJ from the McCarroll Ranch, with a timeskip a few years ahead, where AJ is now a young boy. With diminishing resources amid the apocalypse, Clementine and AJ find the importance of staying with communities of vital importance, meeting other characters who have little memory of the time before the downfall of society. Clementine starts to teach AJ the essentials of survival as Lee had taught her during The Walking Dead : The First Season, as a way of paying Lee 's lessons forward. Telltale had initially considered writing a version of Clementine that had become more jaded, but found this was far too different from the established version of the character, and reworked her to be more sympathetic. The final season will use the updated version of the Telltale Tool first introduced in Batman : The Telltale Series, along with improvements in the visual style to approach the style used in The Walking Dead comic. This included improved dynamic lightning, and a new rendering style Telltale called `` Graphic Black '' to enforce the comic book rendering style. Some scenes will feature `` unscripted '' zombies who may attack Clementine if the player is not careful, creating new freeform combat sequences, while other parts of the game will continue to use quick - time events as from previous games. Due to course - corrections made at Telltale in 2017, The Walking Dead : The Final Season was primarily the only game the company released that year, cutting down from twenty episodes across multiple games in 2017 to only this season 's four in 2018. The game 's executive producer Brodie Andersen said that `` We know we ran a little hot in previous years and were n't able to fully deliver the experiences we may have wanted to, so that was important to focus in on a polished quality experience players love. '' Because of the reduced product schedule, Telltale was able to establish firm release dates for all four episodes in the season, a first for any of Telltale 's episodic series. Andersen said that they were able to achieve this by starting from where they wanted The Final Season to end, and then building the narrative backwards from that, establishing four clear episodes for the series to work towards. A free demo of the game, offering approximately the first twenty minutes of the first episode, meant to show off the new gameplay features added in this season, was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on July 31, 2018. Physical releases of The Final Season for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are expected to be released on November 6, 2018 ; they will contain the first two episodes and a season pass code to download the final two episodes when they are normally released. Despite the title The Final Season, Telltale originally did not rule out a possible future for The Walking Dead games ; Creative Director Kent Mudle said that The Final Season title represented the end of Clementine 's journey from Telltale 's view, but could revisit the franchise through other characters. On September 21, 2018, Telltale announced they were undergoing a `` majority studio closure '', laying off nearly all staff and leaving only 25 to complete the studio 's remaining obligations. The state of The Final Season is unknown, though other planned studio projects were cancelled. The second episode was still released on September 25, 2018, but the fate of the remaining episodes is unknown. Telltale stated on September 24, 2018, that the studio has been approached by `` multiple potential partners '' that want to help bring these two episodes to completion in some manner. Until they are able to figure out how the last two episodes will be played out, Telltale asked retailers and digital storefronts to pull sales of the game and the season pass. During the 2018 New York Comic Con, Robert Kirkman announced that his production company, Skybound Entertainment, will help to bring the last two episodes to release. According to Skybound, they have acquired the rights of the game from Telltale, and will be working with former Telltale Games employees who worked on the series to finish off the episodes. Ian Howe, the CEO of Skybound Games, noted that there were logistical difficulties in this. Some of the Telltale team had already moved on to other jobs prior to the Skybound deal, and for those still looking for work, they are not expecting them to relocate from San Francisco ( where Telltale was located ) to Los Angeles ( where Skybound is located ), but do need to find them space that makes the completion of development possible. They further needed to account for the time that those seeking jobs would need. Howe stated that he fully expected that the third episode would be released before the end of 2018. Reception The Walking Dead : The Final Season received generally positive reviews, earning praise for its characterization, visuals, and upgraded gameplay mechanics, and is considered by many critics and fans to be a return to form for the series. Episode 1 - Done Running Aggregating review website Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 76 / 100 based on 26 reviews, the PlayStation 4 version 75 / 100 based on 14 reviews, the Xbox One version 70 / 100 based on 9 reviews, and the Nintendo Switch version 76 / 100 based on 5 reviews. Episode 2 - suffer the children The second episode received mixed reviews. On Metacritic, PC version of the episode has a rating of 69 / 100, and PS4 version has a rating of 70 / 100. 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Question: when is episode 2 of the final season coming out
Answer: September 25, 2018