As the TV series, The Walking Dead is marching towards its climactic conclusion, AMC has partnered with Free League Publishing and Genuine Entertainment to keep the series alive in a new way. Looking to expand even further into the universe of the show, they are preparing an official tabletop role-playing game called The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game.
“The Walking Dead has always been about characters – and audiences, by extension – facing impossible life and death choices,” says Chief Content Officer of The Walking Dead Universe, Scott M. Gimple. “Now, fans can face these choices head-on, putting themselves in the world of the Walking Dead – at any time in the timeline, encountering familiar faces and places and brand-new ones and, within our apocalypse, making the biggest choice: Who are you going to be? We’ve seen a lot of stories in the Walking Dead Universe, now it’s time to see yours.”
Players are challenged to enter the unforgiving, post-apocalyptic sandbox and learn how to survive and thrive in this new world order. Spend days just scavenging ruins and testing survival skills, lose yourself in fortifying strongholds alone, or go beyond the boundaries of the survival genre and do something befitting your own interests and goals. How you survive the unforgiving world of the living dead is up to you, but stick to the main goal; surviving!
Keep in mind, players must not only hone their physical skills but deeply explore what makes them tick – confronting how the hardships of this world naturally impact what they’re capable of, in the best and worst of times. Just as in the show, the game isn’t all about killing walkers. As Genuine Entertainment’s Joe LeFavi puts it, “It's not about losing health points and fighting to stay alive. It's about losing your humanity and fighting to find and protect what’s worth living, killing, and dying for.”
The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game will debut on Kickstarter in Spring 2023, offering early access to the Core Rulebook, a Starter Set, and other premium accessories and limited-run exclusives long before its Fall 2023 retail release.
