Plot

Play as Daryl Dixon as he struggles to make his way through the early days of the apocalypse.

As Daryl choose between whether to stay and fight while risking a gruesome death or using stealth to avoid the undead. No place is truly safe for Daryl as he makes his way through the Georgia countryside in this new, post-apocalyptic world.—Anonymous

In the midst of a zombie outbreak and shortly after the death of Daryl Dixon's father Will Dixon, Daryl and his half-uncle Jess Collins escape their mountain shelter in Cabot Ridge to gather supplies in the nearby town of Sedalia. During the scavenger hunt for fuel, Daryl meets Jimmy Blake, the last standing police officer of Sedalia, on the top of a roof, who requested Daryl to find radio batteries to call for help. In a nearby gas station, Daryl meets Warren Bedford, who gives fuel to Daryl under the condition that he joins the group. The trio then escapes with the newly acquired fuel, this time heading to Pembertom.

Upon entering Pemberton, Jess continues to get weaker from a bite he suffered in the mountains. At the campgrounds, Daryl meets deputy Lee, who gives Daryl a shotgun and asks him to look for a park ranger in order to get car keys to another vehicle. When looking for the ranger, Daryl hears a girl being devoured over a radio. Daryl also finds out that the ranger has turned into a zombie already. In the aftermath, Jess succumbs to the bite and reanimates, leaving Daryl and Warren/Jimmy as the only survivors.

Shortly after arriving at a town called Fontana to look for his brother Merle Dixon, Daryl hears gun shots from a building and assumes that it's an unknown lunatic. The unknown shooter was later revealed to be Merle, who was trying to protect himself from U.S. soldiers attempting to bring him to prison. Merle joins the group and demands to go to a bar called Jake's as their next destination.

When Daryl questions Merle's reason to go to Jake's, Merle tells him he kept something of Daryl's at the bar. After arriving at the bar, Merle instructs Daryl to stay by the car but Daryl goes and looks for his brother anyway.. It is revealed that Merle really went back to get revenge on the his gang that sold him out and took Daryl's crossbow. Merle attacks some of them in the bar, until the rest of the gang comes back and knocks Daryl out, taking all of his equipment and supplies. However, an undead gang member has Daryl's crossbow. Daryl takes the crossbow and continues to look for Merle, the gang, and his missing equipment. Afterwards, Daryl finds out that Merle had gone missing while the entire gang died and was eaten by zombies.

Daryl meets fellow survivor Anna Turner and contacts her father John, a sheriff, and plans on meeting at the evacuation point at Palmetto Estates. After arriving at Danvers research lab for the serum (a supposed cure), Daryl fights his way through the lab and finds a lady named Sheila Schneider who was a member of the Archer Creek Dam group. Sheila tells Daryl that the serum is just a fairy tale and that the research result has found there is no cure for the disease. The lab is locked down by the auto security system and Daryl tells Anna to flip the alarm switch, which actually ends up accidentally triggering the alarm. After escaping the lab, Daryl and Anna go to Sherwood to gather information about the evacuation. Daryl later says goodbye to Anna when she and her father meet up and then drive off.

While scavenging the area, Daryl finds two elderly survivors, Terry Harrison and his wife, who is in a bad condition on the bed. Harrison is taking care of his wife, though he is concerned for his daughters, Amy and Andrea. He tells Daryl to find Aiden, who was in charge of signaling an evacuation helicopter. He also asks Daryl to get antibiotics from the pharmacy to ease his wife's suffering. Daryl finds Aiden's wife, Jane, who tells Daryl to look for her husband in the pharmacy. Daryl finds Aiden who has apparently twisted his ankle and his stuck on the roof of pharmacy. Aiden tells Daryl that, to signal the evac chopper, he must retrieve his bag in a garage, as the bag has flares that can be used to signal it. Daryl brings retrieves and brings it to Aiden, who starts the evacuation. Daryl then returns to the neighborhood where Terry, his wife, and Jane are located. When he gets there, he is forced to choose between them as both of their houses are under attack by walkers. The survivor that Daryl chooses to save then tells him that the last evacuation site is Atlanta at the Firesign Stadium.

Daryl and his remaining survivors continue on the trip to the stadium but find it full of zombies. Daryl tries to reach various helicopters, but they take off before he can get on, until there is only one left. Daryl holds off the horde with an M2 Browning mounted on a Humvee that is driven by Merle, who returns. After defending the helicopter, Daryl attempts to get on but is held back by Merle who says that the pilot was bitten. The survivors, who have already boarded the helicopter, are left to their fate.