A 58 with a wide spread
The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival has a Top Critic Average of 58 on OpenCritic, and only 22% of critics recommend it. The spread underneath is wild: Switchaboo gave it 3/10, while Pragalicious and Press Attack each gave it 8/10.
OpenCritic lists a release date of September 18, 2026 for Nintendo Switch 2 and PC, and PS4Blog.net describes it as an “arcade-style 2D beat ’em up based on AMC’s The Walking Dead”. The 58 is OpenCritic’s Top Critic Average; the site lists 36 critic reviews in total, and ranks the game in the 14th percentile of games scored there. Those are separate numbers from the 22% recommend rate. Scores and quotes below come from OpenCritic’s pages for the game, checked on 2 November 2026; they can shift as more reviews arrive.
Scores from the outlets we could see
| Outlet | Score | Takeaway |
|---|---|---|
| Pragalicious | 8/10 | Tribute to the series and a well-made game |
| Press Attack | 8/10 | “An easy recommendation” |
| PlayStation Universe | 7.5/10 | Worth your time for fans, despite hiccups |
| Use a Potion | 7/10 | Enjoyable, a little clunky, no multiplayer |
| COGconnected | 69/100 | Not enough depth for repeat playthroughs |
| Gameblog | 5/10 | “More Walking Dead than Streets of Rage” |
| Xbox Tavern | 5/10 | Fine combat, but misses the atmosphere |
| CBR | 4/10 | Wears out its welcome and is over quickly |
| Switchaboo | 3/10 | A hard sell even for hardcore fans |
OpenCritic marks COGconnected, PlayStation Universe, Gameblog and CBR as Top Critics; the other outlets in the table are not flagged that way on the page. Gameblog appears twice, both times at 5/10, and we show it once.
The praise is for the show
Where critics are kind, the kindness is mostly aimed at people who already like the series. PlayStation Universe’s Michael Harradence writes that “if you’re a fan of the TV series or just love a solid, retro-style brawler, The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival is worth your time despite a few hiccups.” Press Attack’s Alef Santos says it “delivers exactly what it promises” and calls it “an easy recommendation” for fans of the comics, the TV series or classic beat ’em ups.
Pragalicious’s Jim Van Meirhaeghe goes furthest, calling it “both a tribute to the series and simply an enjoyable, well-made game” and singling out the talent tree and the Walker Pit mode. Use a Potion points to “satisfying combat, authentic survival horror vibe, and fun gameplay loop”, while GameBlast says it “works well as a nostalgic experience of moments from the TV series”. Even the 5/10 from Gameblog concedes the fan service, in the English text OpenCritic shows for that French-language review, “will delight fans with nods to the series”.
Clunky combat and no second player
The complaints are more specific, and they repeat. The missing multiplayer comes up in Use a Potion, MKAU Gaming, Pure Dead Gaming, Switchaboo and G4F.it. MKAU Gaming’s Sammy Hanson says “frustrating combat mechanics and a disappointing lack of multiplayer overshadow its innovative genre-blending approach”, and Pure Dead Gaming says it needed “a little more polish, a little more content and, perhaps most importantly, a second player”.
Combat is the other sore spot. EntreMandos (5.5/10, translated from Spanish on OpenCritic) calls the gameplay “clunky, awkward and unsatisfying”. Pizza Fria (6.9/10) is milder but flags “frustrations involving the hitboxes of enemies and the player themselves”. Switchaboo’s Nathan Rudge says it commits “cardinal sins of beat ’em ups of a single combo to execute and no multiplayer”, though he also calls it “visually a gorgeous game”. CBR’s Scott Baird, at 4/10, says it adds “a few wrinkles” such as gunplay and a skill system, but “quickly wears out its welcome”.
Short, and the edition matters
Length is the other worry. CBR says the experience is “over quickly”, and Gamer Social Club (6.5/10) calls the campaign “fairly short”. CriticLenz (7.5/10, translated from Persian on OpenCritic) puts it at roughly two and a half hours and describes “the short length of the story for a $20 standard-edition title” as an undeniable flaw. The same review says the Walker Pit mode is absent from the standard edition, which is worth knowing given Pragalicious lists that mode as a bonus. Check which edition you’re buying before you order.
For scale, OpenCritic’s list of recent releases puts The Wolf Among Us Remastered at 85, which we covered in our Wolf Among Us Remastered roundup. Streets of Survival is nowhere near that tier, and its own reviews don’t pretend otherwise. Phantom Blade Zero sits at 89 on the same list, and our Phantom Blade Zero roundup shows what a heavyweight action release looks like next to a 58.
Our take: fans first, everyone else wait
We think the 58 is a fair summary, because the positive reviews mostly argue for it as a fan purchase and the negative ones argue that the beat ’em up underneath is thin. Switchaboo says it can’t recommend it “to anyone but hardcore fans of the show”, and PlayStation Universe’s own recommendation opens with “if you’re a fan”. With no multiplayer, a short campaign per CBR and CriticLenz, and a split verdict on combat, we’d wait for a lower price unless the show is the whole appeal.
- Buy if you love the series and want a nostalgic pixel-art tribute, as PlayStation Universe, Press Attack and Pragalicious describe it.
- Skip if you need co-op or deep combat: MKAU Gaming, Pure Dead Gaming and Switchaboo all flag the missing multiplayer, and COGconnected found too little mechanical depth or variety.
OpenCritic is still collecting reviews, so the number may move. If a patch or a lower price changes the picture, we’ll revisit it.
