This review contains minor spoilers for both the game and show

I recently watched the show for the first time and I when I remembered that this existed I was eager to play it to carry on my interest in the franchise. Unfortunately what you get is a mixed bag of bland characters, crammed in cameo's and predictable plot points.

The story itself is inserted into the shows canon between the end of series 3 and series 4. It starts at the red wedding and if I were to guess finishes just before the end of season 4. Due to this you get to see a few major plot points take place from an outsider perspective. Which is something that I am a fan of, I like when movies, shows or games have key plot points going on at the same time that you can see from different people's perspectives. In total you play as 5 different members of House Forrester who are an original creation of this game. Each character is located in different parts of the land so that they could add in as many characters from the show as possible. Rodrik and Ethan are placed in the north during the aftermath of the red wedding, Asher is in Essos during Daenerys attacks against the slavers, Mira is in Kings Landing at the time of Joffrey and Margaery's wedding and Gared is sent to the wall when Jon is leading the march against the members of the night's watch who turned traitor. Multiple characters from the show are present across the game, most notably Jon Snow, Tyrion and Cersei Lannister, Ramsey Snow, Margaery Tyrell and Daenerys Targaryen. Most of these feel like they are only here for the sake of it with the exception of Margaery and Ramsey who both play important parts in the story. It is cool that they got all the actors to play their characters but most just felt unnecessary to me.

The actual story is a bit underwhelming as it is just a basic house rivalry with infrequent cameo's from familiar characters. Most of the playable characters aren't the most interesting but none are really bad by any means, just bland. Same goes for side characters, some are decent but nothing compared to TellTale's other work. Personally I think that the first three episodes drag hard as the same thing keeps happening over and over again. Thankfully it picks up during the last three. When it comes to the different character's sections I was a fan of Gared's story at the wall and I enjoyed Mira's story at Kings landing, I liked the main part in the north with Rodrik but I wasn't a fan of the stuff in Essos with Asher. My biggest complaint when it comes to the story is the traitor plot as neither of the characters who can be the traitor make any sense when you see how they act throughout the game.

Choice wise its the same as most telltale games where none of your choices really matter. However I found that in this game as compared to other TellTale ones that I played, your actions from earlier episodes are mentioned more frequently where as they are normally just forgotten.

Visually this hasn't aged great, Im a big fan of the painted backdrops I think they look great but I experienced a lot of visual glitches regarding character models and the background of walking segments. Score wise however it incorporates a lot of music from the show which is great.

Now I think this games biggest downfall is the fact that it ended clearly setting up a second season, which was originally meant to be released but was cancelled in 2017 shortly before TellTale closed down. The game ends rather inconclusively with multiple characters where abouts unknown or in dangerous situations and it is looking almost certain that there will not be a follow up due to the show being long since concluded and the sour note it ended on. Due to this I am not letting the way it ended lower my score any as it is of no fault of this game that it never got a sequel. Overall, If you are a fan of the show and can be bothered to hunt down a physical copy due to this being erased from digital stores then it is worth a play but compared to TellTale's other work at the time it is definitely on the lower end of the scale.