Looks like Starbreeze’s work in the universe of The Walking Dead has now truly kicked the bucket, as franchise rights owners Skybound Games have decided to flex their muscle and terminate the contract between the two thanks to Overkill’s The Walking Dead game being an absolute disaster.

Overkill’s The Walking Dead is not a very good game at all. The game was released on PC towards the end of last year, but it crashed so badly that it very nearly took developer Overkill and publisher Starbreeze down with it. There were suggestions that the console versions have been cancelled. they havent.

Overkill’s The Walking Dead is a horrible game by any stretch of the quality margin, with its sales more than matching its dismal scores from fans and reviewers alike. It may have been the game that broke the Starbreeze camel’s back, because that studio is dire straits currently. Who’s to blame for the blunder? According to former Starbreeze CEO Bo Andersson, it all comes down to the developers because clearly they’re to blame for poor sales.

Overkill's The Walking Dead has put Starbreeze in a dangerous financial situation, which has forced their CEO to resign and the company to enter a dire state of reconstruction.

As a franchise, the Walking Dead is nowhere near as popular as it used to be. Still, there’s something deliciously satisfying about making the undead dead again, so many of its remaining fans were hopeful that Overkill's The Walking Dead would finally be the game to perfectly adapt the series to the medium of video games. It wasn’t. Instead of being Left 4 Dead for a new generation, it ended up being a shambolic mess