Turn on your friends in The Walking Dead: Betrayal
Who needs enemies with friends like these? From the creators behind Project Winter — an 8-person multiplayer game focusing on social deception and survival — comes The Walking Dead: Betrayal.
Much like Project Winter and other social deduction games, The Walking Dead: Betrayal expects players to work together in order to survive — all while harboring a secret traitor within their ranks. This means that, no matter what you do to progress throughout the game, there’s always the risk that the traitor will be one step ahead in planning your untimely demise. And that’s not even to mention the fact that there are walkers who are looking to bite your face off and make you one of them.
And yet, even with a traitor among your ranks, players will have no choice but to band together to survive and complete their objectives. Paranoia and accusations will run rampant in this game.
Though the survivors aren’t alone with their objectives. The traitor will have their own goals to complete, and must do so sneakily without getting caught by other players. This could mean setting up traps, poisoning the food supply, or luring walkers toward your team. Either way, the traitor has the hard job of doing two separate things, while only acting as though they’re doing one. No pressure!
“We’re tremendously excited to unveil this latest The Walking Dead experience that fully immerses players with a fresh and unique take on social deception gameplay,” said Robert Kirkman, Chief Creative Director of Skybound Entertainment and creator of the smash hit, The Walking Dead. “Partnering with Other Ocean Interactive, true innovators in this game genre, will allow players to experience hordes of deceit and distrust as they struggle to work together to survive and escape.”
“Pairing our deep experience and love for social deception gameplay with the incredible The Walking Dead universe is truly a match made in heaven,” said Andrew Ayre, CEO of Other Ocean Interactive. “It’s an honor for our team to collaborate with Skybound, and we can’t wait to reveal more in the coming months, and for fans to experience it starting with our upcoming beta.”
The Walking Dead: Betrayal does not yet have a release date, but players interested can join the The Walking Dead: Betrayal Discord channel, sign up for game updates, and score a chance to participate in upcoming closed beta tests starting August 10.
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