The Walking Dead (franchise)

Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma in a post-apocalyptic world where the undead, known as walkers, have taken over. Rick must fight for his survival to protect his family and friends. While the walkers are their number one threat, other humans create conflict. With the collapse of modern civilization, these survivors must confront other human survivors who have formed groups and communities with their own sets of laws and morals, sometimes leading to open, hostile conflict between them. In this new world, no one can trust each other as they all have created their own world.

Set initially in Los Angeles, California, the series follows a dysfunctional blended family composed of high school guidance counselor Madison Clark, her boyfriend and English teacher Travis Manawa, her daughter Alicia, and her drug-addicted son Nick, at the onset of the zombie apocalypse. The four must either revamp themselves or cling to their deep flaws as they come to terms with the impending collapse of civilization.

Four teenagers, who have grown up in a generation ten years into the zombie apocalypse, navigate themselves outside of their community known as the Campus Colony leading them to paths where they will either become heroes or villains.[31]

An episodic anthology series set in The Walking Dead universe featuring stories of new and old characters.[32]

Maggie and Negan find themselves in a post-apocalyptic New York City where its residents have made the city their own world of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.[33]

Daryl Dixon investigates how he got to France and tries to piece together what happened and how he will get back home.[34]

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live will take place after the events of the fifth episode of the ninth season, "What Comes After" and the thirteenth episode of the tenth season "What We Become", and presents an "epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world."[28]

Announced in April 2023, Tales of the Walking Dead is set to be followed by a separate series, titled More Tales from the Walking Dead Universe.[18]

Multiple board games for the franchise have been released.

• Cryptozoic Entertainment has released two board games based on the TV show:
  • The Walking Dead Board Game (2011)
  • The Walking Dead Board Game: Best Defense was released in 2013, as well as an expansion
• Keith Tralins, Brian-David Marshall, and Matthew Wang have released two games based on the comic:
  • Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: The Board Game (2011), released by Z-Man Games
• The Walking Dead: The Prison (November 2014), released by Alliance Game Distributors
• A The Walking Game version of Monopoly has been released
• A The Walking Game version of Risk has been released
• In 2018, Mantic Games released a boardgame version of their miniature game All Out war focused on Negan

• Cryptozoic released The Walking Dead Card Game in 2013.

• In January 2016, Mantic Games announced plans to release a tabletop miniature wargame (skirmish) based on The Walking Dead
• In 2019, Mantic Games launched a new version of their miniature game rules focused on larger battles, named The Walking Dead: Call To Arms. This game uses the same miniatures as The Walking Dead: All Out War.

• The Walking Dead: From Telltale Games, the game series is set within the comic book universe and tells the story of a character called Clementine. She is voiced by Melissa Hutchison. A spin-off game, Michonne, has also been developed.
• Survival Instinct: On July 6, 2012, Activision announced a first-person shooter based on and set before the television series, which is being developed by Terminal Reality.[137] It was released on March 19, 2013, in North America.[138] It was met with negative reception.
• The Walking Dead: Our World: Location-based mobile game. Based on The Walking Dead universe and developed by Next Games.[139]
• The Escapists: The Walking Dead: The Escapists: The Walking Dead is a spin-off from The Escapists, a strategy video game about escaping prisons.[140]
• Overkill's The Walking Dead: In August 2014, Starbreeze Studios announced that a The Walking Dead co-op first-person shooter is in development by Overkill Software.[141] The game is called Overkill's The Walking Dead, and it claims to deliver a "completely new co-op experience" to The Walking Dead universe that will explore new characters and storylines. It was scheduled to launch on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Microsoft Windows in 2018. The game is being made with The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, who says he was certain from the first day he saw the project that it was the "co-op action game fans have been waiting for." It is also the result of a new "long-term" partnership between Starbreeze and Kirkman's company Skybound Interactive.
• The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners: A virtual reality game developed by Skybound Entertainment. It was released on January 23, 2020.[142]
• The Walking Dead: Onslaught: A VR game for AMC's The Walking Dead.[143]
• The Walking Dead: Last Mile: A live, interactive, online experience and game on Facebook Instant Gaming. It was released on August 22, 2022.[144]
• The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2: Retribution: A sequel was released for Meta Quest 2 on December 1, 2022, and for PlayStation VR and PlayStation VR2 in 2023.[145][146]
• The Walking Dead: All-Stars: A mobile idle survival role-playing video game available both on Android and iOS.[147] It was released globally on August 31, 2022.[147] It features a vast array of characters and skills, as well as idle battle and collection systems.[147] In this game, players must strategically recruit survivors and collect resources through a variety of story-driven modes and in-game events to build and evolve their own sanctuary while fighting against zombies to survive.[148]
• The Walking Dead: Destinies: Its a third-person, narrative-driven action-adventure game in which your choices can reshape the story of seasons 1-4 of the hit TV show. You begin by playing as Rick Grimes and visit key locations from the show, such as the Greene farm, the prison, when you come to certain key choice moments that can determine who lives and who dies, with those choices potentially differing from how things played out on the show. Its in development by GameMill Entertainment for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch which will be released on November 14, 2023.[149]

Novels for The Walking Dead set within the comic book universe.

• Kirkman, Robert; Bonansinga, Jay (October 11, 2011). The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor.
• Kirkman, Robert; Bonansinga, Jay (October 16, 2012). The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury.
• Kirkman, Robert; Bonansinga, Jay (December 4, 2012). A Walking Dead Short: Just Another Day at the Office.
• Kirkman, Robert; Bonansinga, Jay (October 8, 2013). The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor: Part One.
• Bonansinga, Jay (March 4, 2014). The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor: Part Two.
• Bonansinga, Jay (October 14, 2014). Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Descent.
• Bonansinga, Jay (October 6, 2015). Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Invasion.
• Bonansinga, Jay (October 18, 2016). Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Search and Destroy.
• Bonansinga, Jay (October 17, 2017). Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Return to Woodbury.
• Chu, Wesley (October 1, 2019). Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Typhoon.

• McFarlane Toys manufactured action figures resembling the characters in the comic book for September 2011 release. In addition, action figures resembling characters from the TV series, including Rick Grimes, Daryl Dixon, and a dismemberable "walker", were set for release in November 2011.[150]
• Taverncraft has produced The Walking Dead pint glasses and steins, and has a license to release lighters for the series as well.[151]
• Titan Magazines has published The Walking Dead, The Official Magazine since October 2012.[152]
• Two pinball tables based on the series were released: a physical table developed by Stern Pinball[153] and a virtual one developed and published by Zen Studios, based on Telltale Games' The Walking Dead: Season One.[154][155][156]

• The Walking Dead: The Ride: Located in Thorpe Park, Thorpe, United Kingdom, The Ride is a re-design of a previously standing ride. Opened as The Walking Dead: The Ride in March 2018, as part of the "Year of The Walking Dead".