Top 10 Hardest Decisions in The Walking Dead Video Game
Some video games give you tough choices. The Walking Dead makes you live with them. It doesn't just ask, "Who do you save?" It looks you in the eye, slaps a timer on the screen, and dares you to pick a side. You're fully aware you'll be questioning yourself for the next decade. You'll try to rationalize. You'll replay it in your head. And every time you think you've made peace with it, one of those lines will sneak back into your mind and hit you right in the gut.
This isn't a morality quiz with right and wrong answers. It's a slow-burn emotional grinder that forces you to choose between people you've grown to care about. Sometimes the choice is between loyalty and logic. Other times, it's fear versus compassion. And just when you think you've figured out how to navigate the mess, the game changes the rules and makes you choose again with even worse fallout.
Which choices broke you? Which ones still sit in your memory like a bad scar every time you load your old save file? Vote for the moments that had you frozen on the couch, controller in hand, staring at two awful options and thinking, "Why would they do this to me?"
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Shooting Lee or Leaving Him
Shoot him. Even though it sucks, it helps Clementine know and understand how hard the world is. It still gives depression to the game after 13 years.
It doesn't matter which one you choose because you'll still cry your eyes out. It's hard to decide which is sadder. When you shoot him, Clem's face before she does it is so sad. But if you leave him, looking back at Lee and seeing him fall to his side, dead…ugh.
In my opinion, it should be an easy choice. You have to shoot him.
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Shooting Kenny or Letting Jane Die
It's unfortunate that Jane was manipulative because she knew how to kill a walker quickly and had good strategies. However, when she pushed Kenny and crossed the line by ignoring what he had been through, her actions were unacceptable.
Yes, the decision was hard, but I wanted to give a second chance to the wounded man who had lost his family and friends and who apologized for being a douche, putting the kids' lives before his own.
Jane saying that Kenny was a danger was ironic since both she and Kenny helped protect the group when Arvo's group attacked.
Either kill your friend who would always look out for you but was also insane sometimes, or a manipulative woman who puts an innocent child's life at risk. Hmm, that's a tough one...
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Staying at Wellington or Leaving with Kenny
I tried staying at Wellington just to see what would happen, but I cried my eyes out. I reloaded and stayed with Kenny. He's my favorite character, and I knew I could never really leave him.
Kenny. Always Kenny. Even though he gets done dirty by the writers in Season 3, it's still Kenny above almost anyone.
I would never leave Kenny because I love the man so much.
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Saving Carley or Saving Doug
Guess what? They both die in scripted ways anyway!
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Saving Ben or Letting Him Go
If you let Ben go, you're no better than the people at Crawford. He may have died later on, but he was still a person who had lost so much and had so much to live for.
Rest in peace, Ben Paul. You will be missed.
If you spare him, he won't be involved in anything afterward and will die anyway. Oh, and Kenny will disappear no matter what you do. So, all in all, it's going to be the same outcome.
I had to save Ben because if I were Lee, I wouldn't want his blood on my hands. Plus, Kenny didn't deserve to have it his way that time.
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Trying to Save Larry or Helping Kenny Kill Him
Well, let's see... First of all, he tried to kill me. Then he didn't care about me even after I gave him food. Am I the only one? I also gave him the axe, which saved my life, but only because he had to kill the zombie. Yeah, let's kill him.
I sided with Kenny when it came to killing Larry. I know I scarred Clementine for life, but Clem, you need to understand that Larry was not a good man. If anything, I helped Kenny do humanity a favor.
Larry can rot for all I care. Did y'all actually struggle with this choice?
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Agreeing to Loot the Stranger's Car or Refusing
The choice only affects a few lines of dialogue, sorry.
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Cutting Off Lee's Bitten Arm or Keeping It
Telltale really made this feel significant, but it didn't have any impact.
I thought it might reverse the infection, right?
A tough decision, but cutting off the arm buys you time. However, there are so many ladders...
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Leaving Sarah in the Trailer Park or Saving Her
I killed her. Like Ben and Duck, she deserved it because she caused major deaths.
If you save her, she will be useless until she dies because Telltale says so.
I could never relate to her, but I saved her.
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Saving Shawn or Saving Duck
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Trusting AJ or Not Trusting Him
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Giving Irene the Gun or Refusing Her
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Helping Luke or Covering Him
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Shooting Duck or Making Kenny Shoot Him
It's so cruel to make them shoot their own son or daughter, so I did it myself.
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Saving Louis or Saving Violet
I save Violet. I don't want to have to deal with a ticked off emo.
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Killing Clementine or Leaving Her
Even though Clementine didn't actually die, it was still a difficult choice.
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Shooting Sam the Dog or Letting Him Suffer
I literally had to stop playing to pull myself together after this part.
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Saving Ava or Saving Tripp
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Killing the St. John Brothers or Sparing Them
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Leaving Lilly Behind or Letting Her Stay
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Showing Lee's Bitten Arm or Hiding It
I didn't want to make anyone panic about it, so I didn't say anything.
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Fighting David or Showing Him Love
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Appealing to Louis or Appealing to Violet
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Inviting the Family into Howe's or Turning Them Away
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Leaving the Gas Station or Killing Stephanie