The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is a virtual reality first-person shooter survival horror game for Windows, PlayStation 4, Oculus Quest, and Oculus Quest 2, developed by Skydance Interactive. It is based on the Skybound Entertainment comic book series The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman. Initially released on Steam and Oculus platform on January 23, 2020, it was also released on PlayStation VR in May 2020. It was then released on Oculus Quest in October 2020 under the "tourist edition" surname.
Plot[]
The game is set in New Orleans after the zombie outbreak. The player is taking the role of the so called Tourist, who is either male or female depending on the player's choice. At a campfire, an old man called Henri tells the player the legend of The Reserve, an old military bunker filled with supplies and weapons. Henri also explains that there are two factions attempting to take control of New Orleans, the Reclaimed and the Tower.
While in a boat, the player gets swarmed by zombies hiding in the water and crashes onto a cemetery. After navigating through the cemetery, the player finds Henri strung upside down and close to death, the player can either talk to him and find out what happened and then mercy kill him or let him die. After Henri is dead, the player finds a broken down bus made into a survival shelter where Henri was doing his research. In the bus the player finds some food, old military codes, and a broken radio, which Henri was trying to repair. The player already has an Automotive battery and an Antenna (radio), but is still in need of a microphone. The player must then head out to the first location on the map to salvage the sought after item. After installing it, the player then makes contact with Casey, who is trapped in the reserve due to a flooding of the bunker. The player then agrees to help Casey get out of the Reserve in return of the valuable items inside it. Whilst talking to Casey, the conversation gets interrupted by a lantern lighting up on the graveyard. After further investigation by the player, a coffin is found where a mysterious person has been gathering intel from the Tower. After finding the intel and putting it in the coffin, the unknown person then asks the player to meet them in front of the church courtyard. The unknown person is revealed to be May Benoit, who is a wanted traitor of the tower. She asks the player to gather tower intel for her in order to help her and her group of protégés. After getting all of the intel, May gives the player the Reserve key. (May can also be killed to skip her entire story line and get the key immediately). Casey also wants the player to find and install pumping systems to pump out the water in the Reserve. After finding the first two, the player travels to one of the locations (The Bastion) and meets JB, the leader of The Reclaimed, who gives the player the water pump after talking as well as the code to control the water pumps, telling the player to flood all of the reserve, as it would be better for everyone. After leaving the building that JB is in, the player is stopped by Georgia, the commander of The Tower and niece of Mama, the leader of The Tower, who tells the player to kill JB and they'll forgive the player for all that happened. The player can either tell JB that The Tower is right outside the door and fight alongside him or kill JB in favor of the tower. The player then returns to the graveyard and installs the last pump which then lights up the entire Reserve, showing everyone where it is.
The player then scrambles to hurry to the church to get to the Reserve, where a huge battle breaks out. If the player chose to kill JB, the Tower people will not attack the player, if not though, the Tower will attack the player but they will be ignored by The Reclaimed. During the battle, the player sneaks into the church and finds the control room where he is informed by Casey that something has gone wrong and that the player had to flood a room to save him. The player can either flood the communication room where Casey is trapped in, killing him instantly, flood the armory where the weapons and supplies are stored, or flood everything. If the player floods the Armory, Casey will come out in the church. If May is still alive by that point of the game, she is tugging on a rope of the church bell to send the horde after the factions that are fighting. The player can either choose to kill May, or let May pull the bells and kill everyone. After deciding, the player heads down into the Reserve, gathers whatever supplies are left from either the communication room or the armory, and leaves on a boat.