The Walking Dead: Season Two is an episodic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games and based on The Walking Dead comic book series. It is the sequel to The Walking Dead: The Game, with the episodes released between December 2013 and August 2014. There was a retail collector's disc edition released after the conclusion of the season. The game employs the same narrative structure as the first season, where player choice in one episode will have a permanent impact on future story elements. The player choices recorded in save files from the first season and the additional episode 400 Days carry over into the second season. Clementine, who was the player's main companion during the first season, is the playable character in Season Two.
A third season, titled The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, was released on December 2016.
Plot[]
This is only a broad overview of the plot, and may differ based on the choices made during both this game and the preceding season and its add-on 400 Days.
After the events of the first season, Clementine regroups with Omid and Christa, but Omid is killed during a rest stop. Months later, Christa and Clementine are seeking refuge in Wellington, Ohio but are separated by scavengers. Clementine finds a dog, which eventually turns violent and bites her. Injured, she is found by Pete and Luke, who take her to their group's cabin. The group includes Pete and his nephew Nick, Alvin and his pregnant wife Rebecca, and a doctor named Carlos and his daughter Sarah. They mistake Clementine's bite for that of a walker and lock her up for safety. Clementine steals the group's supplies to treat her wound, after which they begin to accept her.
After Pete is killed by walkers while on a fishing trip with Clementine, she returns to the cabin alone, during which a man enters and snoops around, questioning Clementine about the group. Clementine learns that this man is William Carver, the possible father of Rebecca's child, who is hunting down the group. Forced to abandon the cabin, the survivors find a ski lodge occupied by Clementine's old acquaintance Kenny, his girlfriend Sarita, and their friend Walter. Walkers attack the lodge, during which Nick is potentially killed. They are saved by the arrival of an armed group commanded by Carver, who was led to the lodge by Bonnie, a woman who had earlier scouted the place. Carver executes Walter and possibly Alvin too, depending on Clementine's actions. Regardless, Carver and his minions capture everyone except Luke.
Carver takes them to Howe's Hardware, a fortified mall that he tyrannically runs. The group tries to escape assisted by two other survivors, Jane and Mike. Luke sneaks in Howe's and warns the others of an oncoming walker horde. They devise a plan to escape, but Carver stops them. While Bonnie defects from Carver to join the group in their escape, Clementine uses the mall's speakers to draw the walkers. If Alvin survived the events at the ski lodge, he is killed by one of Carver's men. During the chaos, Carver is killed by Kenny. The group makes their way through the walker horde, but Carlos is devoured. As a walker bites Sarita, Clementine can kill it or cut Sarita's arm off, either choice resulting in her death.
Everyone gathers at the nearby ruins of a museum. Clementine and Jane set out to find Sarah, Luke, and Nick (if alive), who were separated amidst the horde. Clementine and Jane's search leads to a trailer park where Nick (if alive) has re-animated and Luke and Sarah are trapped by walkers. With Sarah catatonic due to her father's death, Clementine is given the decision of coercing her to leave with them or abandoning her to be devoured. While scouting, Clementine and Jane encounter a Russian teenager named Arvo. As Rebecca goes into labor, the survivors retreat to the museum's observation deck, which collapses and causes Sarah (if saved before) to fall and get killed. Rebecca gives birth to a boy who Kenny later names Alvin Jr., "AJ". Jane leaves the group out of fear of getting attached to Clementine. As the group heads north, they encounter Arvo and are ambushed by other Russian survivors. When Rebecca dies of exhaustion and blood loss and turns, either Clementine or Kenny kills her to protect AJ, which triggers a gunfight.
Amidst the gunfight, Jane returns to save the others. Arvo, the sole Russian survivor, is left alive on the promise of supplies. He directs the group to a home across a frozen lake, but the ice breaks and Luke and potentially Bonnie fall through and drown. Kenny brutalizes Arvo, blaming him for Luke's death, which horrifies the others. They find a truck, planning to use it to leave the next morning. However, Clementine catches Arvo, Bonnie (if rescued from the frozen lake), and Mike attempting to escape from Kenny with the supplies, afraid of his increasing rage. Clementine is shot by Arvo and passes out. She awakens in the truck with Jane, Kenny, and AJ as they are heading north, the others having runoff. The road is blocked amid a blinding blizzard and Kenny leaves to look for a way around. Jane tries to convince Clementine to abandon Kenny with her, but the two are separated by walkers. Clementine regroups with Kenny, but Jane then arrives without AJ, and it is implied she had to leave him behind. As an enraged Kenny fights and overpowers Jane, Clementine must decide whether to shoot Kenny to save Jane or allow Kenny to kill her.
If Clementine kills Kenny, she then learns that Jane hid AJ and faked his death to manipulate Clementine into believing Kenny was unstable. Thereafter, Clementine can either forgive Jane and return to Howe's with her or refuse and set off alone with AJ. If Clementine instead allows Kenny to kill Jane, she then has the option of either killing or abandoning Kenny and leaving with AJ or forgiving Kenny and staying with him. If they stay together, the two eventually find Wellington, but the community's overpopulation forces Clementine to decide whether to enter with AJ or stay with Kenny.