The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners vs The Walking Dead: Season One
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is an FPS horror game from Skydance Interactive (2020) while The Walking Dead: Season One is an action-adventure game from Telltale Games (2012).
Quick answer: The Walking Dead: Season One has the higher Metacritic, 89 to 81.
The Walking Dead: Season One
What each one is
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is filed under FPS and Horror. In contrast, The Walking Dead: Season One under Action-Adventure.
Saints & Sinners is a game unlike any other in The Walking Dead universe. Every challenge you face and decision you make is driven by YOU. Fight the undead, scavenge through the flooded ruins of New Orleans, and face gut-wrenching choices for you and the other survivors. Live The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead is a 2012 episodic graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games. Set in the same universe as the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, it is the first installment, or "season", in Telltale's The Walking Dead video game series, and comprises five main "episodes" and one DLC episode released between April 2012 and July 2013. The game follows Lee Everett, a convicted criminal who becomes the guardian of a young girl named Clementine amidst the onset of a zombie apocalypse in Georgia. Player decisions, such as dialogue choices and actions, influence the story's direction, with the consequences of these choices carrying over across the game's episodes.
Story, characters and reception
Plot
The game is set in the flooded New Orleans after an outbreak. The player takes the role of the Tourist, who is either male or female depending on the player's choice. At a campfire, Henri tells the player the legend of The Reserve, an old military bunker filled with supplies and weapons. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception The game received "generally favorable reviews" from critics according to review aggregator website Metacritic . IGN enjoyed the story, and highlighted the morally grey choices the player had to make, "Saints Sinners' ending depends entirely on the decisions you make throughout the campaign too, few of which are decidedly 'good' or 'evil". While criticizing the survival elements as chore-like, Destructoid praised the horror aspects of the… (Wikipedia)
Plot
This is a broad overview of the plot. Certain decisions made by the player will alter details of specific events. Several members of the main cast of survivors of The Walking Dead by Episode 4. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Critical reception The Walking Dead s critical reception was "generally favorable", according to review aggregator website Metacritic , receiving a score of 89/100 based on 14 critic reviews. as it was praised for the harsh emotional tone, the characters, particularly the connection established between Lee and Clementine, story and the resemblance to the original comic book, though there was some criticism towards technical glitches. Oli Welsh of… (Wikipedia)
At a glance
| The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners | The Walking Dead: Season One | |
|---|---|---|
| GamingPickz Score | 7.2/10 | — |
| Steam rating | Very Positive (86%, 10,074) | — |
| Critic aggregate | 81/100 | 89/100 |
| Price | $9.99 | Unknown |
| Install size | 40 GB | — |
| Steam Deck | unsupported | Untested |
| Released | 2020 | 2012 |
| Developer | Skydance Interactive | Telltale Games |
Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners vs The Walking Dead: Season One, point by point
Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.
Genre and premise
The Walking Dead: Saints & SinnersFPS horror gameThe Walking Dead: Season OneAction-adventure gameWhat each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.
How it plays
The Walking Dead: Saints & SinnersZombies, Action, GoreThe Walking Dead: Season OneNo descriptive tagsThe tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.
Reception
The Walking Dead: Saints & SinnersMetacritic 81The Walking Dead: Season One ✓Metacritic 89Metacritic's critic aggregate, from the game's Wikipedia reception where it was never on Steam.
Content and scale
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners10,074 reviews · 1 add-on · 40 GBThe Walking Dead: Season One—Reach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.
Price
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners$9.99The Walking Dead: Season OneUnknownRead live from Steam and subject to change.
The Walking Dead: Season One takes 1 of the marked rounds to 0. That is only what a number can decide, not which you will enjoy more.
Which to pick, by what you want
- The better reviewed of the two: The Walking Dead: Season One (Metacritic 89)
Where they differ
VRZombiesActionGoreHorrorAdventure
Tags players apply to one game and not the other.
Difficulty and who each is for
By the tags players apply, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is middle-of-the-road on difficulty. The Walking Dead: Season One is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.
Accessibility features
Steam store pages declare 0 accessibility features for The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners and 0 for The Walking Dead: Season One. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
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Common questions
How different are The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners and The Walking Dead: Season One in scope?
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners has drawn 10,074 Steam reviews, ships 1 add-on and installs in 40 GB. The Walking Dead: Season One lists little scope data.
Is The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners or The Walking Dead: Season One better?
Neither carries enough reviews for us to score it reliably, so we do not call a winner. The table above shows what each does have.
Which is cheaper, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners or The Walking Dead: Season One?
One or both do not have a current listed price, so a straight comparison is not possible. See the table above.
Should I get The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners or The Walking Dead: Season One?
The Walking Dead: Season One has the higher Metacritic, 89 to 81. It also depends on what you want: the "which to pick" section above calls out which is cheaper, lighter on storage, better on a Steam Deck and the safer bet by weight of reviews.
Do you rank one above the other for a fee?
No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.
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The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.