Retro Replay Review

Gameplay

The first stretch has a strong forward pull: the train reaches Savannah, Clementine believes her parents may be here, and you are immediately searching a hostile city with no reason to think it will welcome you. Around Every Corner is an episode built around pressure rather than comfort. The bells, the sense that someone is tracking the group, and the steady threat of walkers make even brief stops feel dangerous.

As in the earlier episodes, the meaningful interaction comes from conversations and decisions made while everyone is fraying at the edges. Lee is caught between Clementine’s needs and competing plans from the adults around him. Kenny wants the coast and a boat; Christa is focused on medicine for Omid; the wider group needs somewhere safe to breathe. You will spend much of the episode choosing whom to support, what to press for, and how much faith to put in people who may not deserve it.

The episode also gives its exploration a more unsettling purpose once the group begins investigating Crawford. It is not simply a new destination on the way to the finale; it sharpens the questions this season keeps asking about survival and what people will sacrifice to achieve it. The pace can feel deliberately grim, particularly if you want the story to hurry toward its answers, but that discomfort is largely the point.

For the best experience, play it directly after The Walking Dead: Episode 3 – Long Road Ahead. This chapter assumes you remember the group’s recent losses and arguments, and its strongest moments land because you bring that baggage with you.

Graphics

Savannah gives the episode a concrete change of scenery after the train journey: city streets, a house used as a refuge, and the Crawford settlement frame the search. Walkers are most effective when they gather into swarms, turning a route or hiding place into an immediate problem.

Story

Around Every Corner understands that Clementine is the emotional center of this season. Her belief that her parents are in Savannah keeps hope alive, but it also makes every warning sign harder to ignore. The episode uses that tension well: you want to help her, yet you can feel the adults around her struggling to agree on what help even looks like.

The new travel companions matter because they bring distinct priorities into an already strained group. Chuck, Omid, and Christa are not just extra bodies for walker scenes; their presence reshapes the debates over where to go and what must be done first. Christa’s concern for Omid’s infection, in particular, creates a practical urgency that clashes with Kenny’s determination to find a way off the mainland.

The mystery around Savannah gives the chapter a welcome edge of paranoia. Someone rings the town bells. The group feels watched. New survivors and the investigation into Crawford gradually reveal more of what the city has endured. It is a bleak episode, but not an empty one: the bleakness pushes the characters into sharper, more revealing positions before the finale.

Overall Experience

This is not the most self-contained chapter in the season, and it should not be treated as one. It is a late-season escalation, designed to carry the emotional damage and unresolved conflict from earlier episodes into a city where every plan looks increasingly fragile. That makes it a poor starting point, but an effective continuation.

Its payoff is the way it narrows the group’s choices without making their disagreements feel artificial. You may be frustrated by Kenny’s single-mindedness or by how little room there seems to be for a clean solution, yet that frustration fits a story about people running out of safe places and time. The episode makes Savannah feel like a destination the group needed to reach and immediately wishes it had not.

If the first three episodes have hooked you on Lee and Clementine’s journey, Around Every Corner is absolutely worth playing. It deepens the stakes, turns the search for Clementine’s parents into the season’s urgent question, and leaves you poised for the final chapter with little confidence that anyone will emerge unchanged.

Retro Replay Score

7.8/10