Early this year Free League announced they were working on The Walking Dead Universe, a tabletop RPG based on the AMC TV show and its spinoffs. A crowdfunding campaign came with that announcement and reached almost $600,000, well over its initial goal. If you missed that campaign, today happens to be the day the game becomes available commercially.
In Walking Dead Universe, you and your friends form survivor characters struggling to make it in a post-apocalyptic world. If you’re familiar with the show, you know what kind of challenges you’ll face in the game: finding supplies, fending off Walkers and, as always, fighting the corruption inherent in humanity itself. There are two different ways to play: Campaign Mode, a long-running session where your choices create the next scenario, and Survival Mode, a shorter, tighter game where you fight to resolve one particular situation.
To make this project authentic, Free League worked with Chief Content Officer Scott M. Gimple and Head of AMC Networks Publishing Mike Zagari to pull in material from all established locales seen in the ten seasons of TWD, as well as some new areas revealed for the first time in this game.
The Walking Dead Universe is directed by Free League co-founders Tomas Härenstam (ALIEN RPG, Blade Runner RPG) and Mattias Johnsson Haake (Symbaroum), with Nils Hintze (Tales from the Loop RPG, Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying) as lead writer, Gustaf Ekelund (Twilight: 2000) and Martin Grip (ALIEN RPG, Blade Runner RPG) as lead artists, and Genuine Entertainment’s Joe LeFavi (ALIEN RPG, Blade Runner RPG, Dune, The Dragon Prince) as producer and brand manager on the game series.
You can find The Walking Dead Universe online and at hobby shops nationwide starting today.
