The Walking Dead: Michonne

The Walking Dead: Michonne is a three-episode miniseries from Telltale Games that steps away from the main storyline of both the comic and the game series and instead focuses on a standalone story about the popular character Michonne, known from the comic and the television series The Walking Dead, during a period when she temporarily separates from Rick Grimes's group and sets out to find answers about her own past.

As a typical Telltale title, the game builds primarily on story and decision-making based on choices in dialogue and key moments that influence the direction of the narrative and the relationships between characters, while the action segments are limited to simple quick-time events during fights against both zombies and human opponents. The story delves into Michonne's trauma and guilt from the past, which the player gradually uncovers through flashback and dream sequences interwoven with the present aboard a ship and amid the ruins of an attacked city, giving the miniseries a darker, more introspective tone than many other entries in the Walking Dead brand.

Critics received the game with a mixed to mildly positive response – praised were the portrayal of Michonne as a complex character and the psychological depth of the story, while criticism pointed to the miniseries' shorter length compared to full seasons and to the fact that the story has no major impact on the wider canon of the series, with its choices leaving no further mark on the main storyline. Michonne thus remains more of a supplementary, if atmospheric, side story for fans of the comic and show who wanted to get to know the past of one of the most striking characters in The Walking Dead universe better. Its shorter format also allowed the studio to experiment with darker, dreamlike, and hallucinatory sequences that would likely have had a much harder time finding so much room within a longer main season, which is also why the miniseries feels more compact and focused than many of the studio's other episodic titles.