Telltale Games

Telltale Games at a Glance

If you are browsing PlayPile looking to understand Telltale Games, you will find a developer and publisher based in the United States that has been active from 2005 through 2024. The company lists 56 games on our platform, with 44 titles where they acted as publisher and 46 where they developed the game directly. Their catalog spans five decades of digital entertainment history, though their output was not consistent across time. They released only 14 games during the 2000s before expanding significantly to release 38 titles in the 2010s. The company produced just three games in the 2020s before ceasing major operations following financial difficulties in 2018. Telltale focused heavily on the Adventure genre with 47 releases, followed closely by Point-and-click games at 39 entries. They also explored Puzzle and Role-playing categories, but their portfolio rarely touched Shooter or Simulator genres. Their reach was broad across platforms, with 52 titles available on PC and versions released for Mac, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, iOS, and older systems like the Wii and PlayStation 3. The quality of their work shows a clear trend over time. Across 51 rated titles, they hold an average IGDB score of 73.8 out of 100. The majority of their catalog falls into the good range with 36 titles scoring between 60 and 79. They have 11 great entries that scored above 80, but no games rated as poor. Their highest-rated work includes The Walking Dead: Season One episodes from 2012 and Tales from the Borderlands in 2014. Recent releases show a drop in performance compared to their peak years. The Expanse: A Telltale Series received a score of 79.3, which remains decent, but 7 Days to Die released in July 2024 with a low rating of 52.7. The company faced a major crisis in September 2018 when investors pulled funding, leading to the layoff of almost all staff except 25 people. They filed for assignment shortly after. This financial collapse halted their ability to maintain their previous volume of content. While they still have a few recent releases under their name, the scale of their operation has shrunk dramatically from the height of The Walking Dead era.

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