The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 76 Ratings

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  • Summary: 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.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. PlayStation Universe
    May 11, 2020
    95
    The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners’ production values and atmosphere outweigh by far any videogame tropes and flaws that might weigh down the experience. This is a tough (and very scary) game, and every system in the game is built to support the idea that you are lone wolf in a very hostile world. Saints and Sinners understands its franchise, and is the scariest The Walking Dead has ever been.
  2. The Digital Fix
    May 22, 2020
    90
    It's rarely I can say this but for me The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners had dragged the VR platform forward. With its perfect VR implementation, its brilliant control scheme and its visceral combat, it a pure joy to play. A nasty, gruesome edge of the seat joy but a joy nonetheless. Brilliant.
  3. Screen Rant
    Jun 1, 2020
    90
    It’s an experience so rich, rewarding, and interactively creative that it’s likely you’ll want to keep playing long after the last mission, just to lay waste to enemies using upgraded gear, or try out a previously ignored weapon. Most VR games don’t have legs like this, and it’s what pushes The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners into that vaunted category of must-buy PS VR titles.
  4. GameSkinny
    May 17, 2020
    80
    The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners would be a great game even if it wasn't in VR.
  5. DarkStation
    Jun 9, 2020
    80
    Despite some clunkiness of the control system, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is a fun and challenging VR survival game that is also a case for not judging a book by its cover. Bored as I am with Robert Kirkman’s zombie series, there’s no reason to not add this to your PSVR collection.
  6. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Jun 4, 2020
    80
    It’s pretty unforgiving, in that restoring health can only ever be done via scarce consumables, and firearms and their ammo are also incredibly rare. Nonetheless, each mission is a tense delight. You’ll mostly walk to conserve stamina and avoid drawing attention, yet rasslin’ zombies is unavoidable, and you’ll want to be done before the town bells ring. Throw in humans both friendly and unfriendly – who will sometimes even fight among themselves – and you have a wonderfully oppressive, unpredictable world. And, yes, you get to slather yourself in guts. Yay! [Issue#176, p.78]
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  7. Daily Star
    May 12, 2020
    60
    All in all, fans of the franchise and genre potentially have a real gem on their hands with The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners , but it requires a lot of work to get there. Right now, the game is still a diamond in the rough — with a bit of polish (or better yet, an Oculus and a powerful PC), there is a lot of fun to be found here. However, if you don’t like cripplingly difficult AI, buggy tracking and hours of picking up firewood, padlocks and shoes with holes in them, perhaps give this one a miss.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 37
  3. Negative: 2 out of 37
  1. pophi
    May 20, 2020
    10
    Amazing physics, very detailed environments (better than I've seen in any VR game yet), the combat is a blast, crafting/scavenging system isAmazing physics, very detailed environments (better than I've seen in any VR game yet), the combat is a blast, crafting/scavenging system is well done, awesome voice acting. The game gets harder with every day that passes, forcing you to craft more and better weapons/food/meds. Wow. This feels like the first truly AAA game that has been released for VR. Great job.… Expand
  2. DeathStrider
    May 20, 2020
    10
    The game is amazing! I have been a fan of the walking dead since the first episode went live on AMC and was super hyped to play it on PSVR.The game is amazing! I have been a fan of the walking dead since the first episode went live on AMC and was super hyped to play it on PSVR.

    This is the kind of game you start, hours go by, and all the sudden you forgot to sleep and have to rush to work. it's THAT good.    … Expand
  4. FossilWave
    May 20, 2020
    10
    Only 4 hours in but still feel like there is so much to explore!

    The physics are amazing, the environment is amazing, so far the story is    Only 4 hours in but still feel like there is so much to explore!

    The physics are amazing, the environment is amazing, so far the story is amazing, and the combat is amazing.

    Probably the best game of 2020 so far, and maybe will be for the entire year    … Expand
  5. Trudy_Flower
    May 29, 2020
    10
    An amazing game! I have loved every minute of it, from crouching and sneaky around zombies under a house to becoming a parkour expert andAn amazing game! I have loved every minute of it, from crouching and sneaky around zombies under a house to becoming a parkour expert and hopping over cars and climbing through second story windows. Truly one of the best VR games out there today.… Expand
  6. Chairs-are-pret
    Jan 10, 2021
    10
    I came into this game as someone who has never watched or played the walking dead of any kind

    But everything from story/atmosphere/    I came into this game as someone who has never watched or played the walking dead of any kind

    But everything from story/atmosphere/ soundtrack/ weapons/physics is just stellar!    … Expand
  7. DixieRay
    May 20, 2020
    10
    You can stab a zombie in the face with a spoon... what more could you possibly want!
  8. junkmale86
    Jul 27, 2020
    0
    This game SUCKS. Even the crafted weapons don't last very long, and the firearms are so flimsy and unwieldy (like the bolt-action rifle), thatThis game SUCKS. Even the crafted weapons don't last very long, and the firearms are so flimsy and unwieldy (like the bolt-action rifle), that it takes forever to slide the rack back and then reengage. SUCKS. If you want to be clever, at least make the weapons more hardy and intuitive. I don't have 9 hours a day to play one mission because I can't get into a camp, with 20 guys (who also seem to find me with their first shot), with a **** bolt-action rifle and a bat. SUCKS.… Expand

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Awards & Rankings

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#58 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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#75 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2020