The Walking Dead: Road to Survival

 iOS
  • Publisher: Scopely
  • Release Date: Aug 26, 2015
Metascore
73

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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  1. Gamezebo
    Aug 28, 2015
    90
    Overall, while The Walking Dead: Road to Survival is centered on the usual mode of delivery for mobile strategy games, the campaign gave me an engaging enough story and the combat was rewarding enough to where I feel comfortable saying that Road to Survival is a strong step in the right direction for the genre.

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#26 Most Discussed iOS Game of 2015
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#58 Most Shared iOS Game of 2015

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User Score
4.6

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
  3. Negative: 7 out of 14
  1. MP1982
    Nov 3, 2015
    4
    Not quite sure how I feel about the game.

    It is loosely based on the TWD comic book, featuring characters spanning from the Woodbury era to    Not quite sure how I feel about the game.

    It is loosely based on the TWD comic book, featuring characters spanning from the Woodbury era to the present in Alexandria. It starts off fun enough, with an RPG-ish story progression that sees you joining the Governor's forces after making your way to Woodbury. However, at the fateful battle of the prison, you get to begin choosing which direction you go.

    Choices in the game lead to you gaining certain characters and losing others, so every choice matters and affects how the story progresses in the game. The battles consist of turn-based, 1-click operation. It's as simple as selecting an enemy and then clicking which character you want to attack it with. Characters have "Adrenaline Rush" super moves that can do massive damage to a single enemy, area-affect a whole group of foes with damage and/or status debuffs, as well as buff or heal your own team. Enemies consist of either zombies or humans. Zombies tend to amass in overwhelming numbers, whereas humans are usually groups of 3 - 6 at a time that tend to do massive damage to your team with their weapons.

    There is a considerable variety of enemies amongst the zombies and humans. There are some zombies that take massive amounts of damage but move slowly, so it takes a higher amount of turns for them to close in on your team, whereas there are others who can close the distance to your team in a single turn, and make take as many as 4 characters attacking to put it down. Human enemies can attack and kill your team members from the getgo, and can also use Adrenaline Rush capabilities.

    As for characters available to the player, you can get anywhere from 1 star (weakest) to 5 star (strongest) characters. It is a "trading card" system in which you will receive many duplicates. Character cards are used to level up other characters. Matching "persona" types may also result in an adrenaline rush upgrade. You will only ever get 1 star or 2 star characters, with 3 star characters appearing very rarely. 4 and 5 star characters are locked behind a pay wall. The game features world building, site upgrading, crafting and character training. It's your standard free-to-play mobile app game. As expected there is a PvP aspect, along with "Faction" teams. However, as with most games of this type, it hits the "free-to-play, pay-to-win" wall very early.

    In only 2 months of going live, PvP has become completely dominated by elitist "wallet warriors" who buy up 5-star characters and 5 star weapons. In the earlier weeks of the games launch I was typically able to hold my own in PvP, winning 4 out of 5 matches on average. Now, with wallet warriors dominating the brackets, win ratio typically tends to be 1 win in 20 matches. There also appears to be some form of cheating, as often times enemy teams all start with adrenaline rushes active. In many cases, my entire team is wiped out in a single turn by one character using an area-effect adrenaline rush.

    Getting raided costs you your resources and persists while you are away from the game. Since the domination of the wallet warriors in the game, I have been unable to keep resources. In only 9 hours of not playing, my 450,000+ building materials and 375000 food were all wiped out due to raids. I have not been able to recover since, as consistent raiding keeps me deadlocked at zero resources, and therefore am at a point where I cannot possibly grow my settlement any further.

    Pay-to-win also affects the PvE game. I have been stuck on mission 11- 9 for over 6 weeks, with no combination of battle items, characters and abilities able to defeat the mission. Human enemies are tremendously powerful, often able to withstand your team's attacks by taking negligible damage, while retaliating and causing massive damage. You are also often stuck with a level 1, 1-star character that you are forced to take with you due to the "story" element, taking away an available character slot for one of your more powerful characters.

    It's a good game in theory, but it hits the pay-to-win wall quickly, and there is simply no way around it once you get there. Between constant raiding keep your resources down to practically nothing, and story mode missions that require a pay-to-win approach, Road to Survival is not a game for casual TWD fans. If you have the money to waste on a mobile game, you will enjoy it. Otherwise avoid this title.    … Full Review »
  2. enPhenom
    Mar 28, 2019
    3
    Ah, what to say...
    Game mechanics aren't anything new but way they are implemented is not that bad. Game will actually keep you entertained    Ah, what to say...
    Game mechanics aren't anything new but way they are implemented is not that bad. Game will actually keep you entertained for several hundreds of hours. There are competetive system, variety of possible activities in both PvP and PvE.
    Unfortunatelly, thats all you get...
    Once you get adapted to game you can see rotten greedy foundations of this so called Scopely company. Honestly, I've never seen such insolent attitude towards your own playerbase. During my time I spent approx 1000$ just to keep up with my faction members, just to keep up... There were few who spent thousands of $ and yet didn't even touch those in top 10. This game is ridiculously expensive so be prepared for that.
    Another sad experience comes with PvP raiding. It's been fun once you are progressing into assembling high end teams but once you reach this high end it's getting imbalanced and game shows you how badly it's designed. Mostly you encounter loosing to timer counter or get destroyed by ridiculously broken toons. Instead of balancing to improve your gaming experience they'll rather add up another broken toon and gives you seriously great offering to spend 200$ just to try to get this toon and mostly got nothing. That's how Scopely works.

    Pros:
    Live serviced game with lots of to do.
    Challenging weekend events such as global wars or faction events.

    Cons:
    Ridiculously expensive - literally Pay2Win
    Crappy user support
    Cheaters
    Badly designed PvP raiding once you reach endgame
    Lack of balancing

    I hoped for at least 5/10 because this was my 1st mobile game that actually held me playing for a long time but i can't rate this better than 3/10.    … Full Review »
  3. offshore1997
    Sep 5, 2015
    0
    I'm in a loss for words with this disaster of a game...
    This is the most frustrating piece of Pay2Play software ever produced.... And I    I'm in a loss for words with this disaster of a game...
    This is the most frustrating piece of Pay2Play software ever produced.... And I thought that Angry Birds 2 was already bad. A ridiculous raid system, iAPP, chat function and difficulty curve are just a few of the standard P2P extravaganza you'll encounter with this game... Don't download this!    … Full Review »
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