In December, Sweden-based Starbreeze filed for bankruptcy protection. Yet product quality seemed to be the least of the worries for Overkill’s The Walking Dead. In January, Starbreeze postponed the game’s PlayStation 4 and Xbox One launch indefinitely. What did launch was panned by critics and faced anemic player counts. Its launch date was twice delayed by more than a year. Overkill’s The Walking Dead launched in November 2018 on Windows PC, after being announced by Starbreeze Studios in 2014. “We are exceedingly sorry to our fans and share in their disappointment in the game.” “We did our best to work with Starbreeze and resolve many issues that we saw with the game, but ultimately Overkill’s The Walking Dead did not meet our standards nor is it the quality that we were promised,” Skybound said. Skybound Entertainment, the company that licenses and manages Walking Dead video games, said yesterday it terminated its contract with the bankrupt Starbreeze Studios and “will discontinue all efforts” on the game. The console versions of Overkill’s The Walking Dead have been canceled, in just about the most definitive way possible.
