Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins

TechRaptorCourtney Ehrenhofler

9/10

Doctor Who The Lonely Assassins Is a fun follow-up to a fan-favorite episode, with a creepy mystery to solve and a planet to save.

GameSpewKim Snaith

8/10

Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is only a couple of hours long, but it’s a couple of hours that will keep you glued to your screen, hungrily unfolding one plot point after another. With light puzzles to solve, private conversations to sift through and an excellent story, FMV thriller fans will get a kick out of this – even if they aren’t all that familiar with the Doctor.

GameSpaceEd Orr

7/10

A nice follow up to a much loved Doctor Who episode and a fun found phone game all rolled into one. For Doctor Who fans, there's more than one reason to keep your eyes on this new adventure.

CBRIan Cardona

0/10

It's difficult to know how many people are fans of both "found-phone" adventure games and Doctor Who. If you find yourself in the cross-section of this particular Venn diagram, then this game is definitely for you. But really, considering The Lonely Assassins is essentially a sequel to one of the long-running series' most celebrated episodes, this is a game that any Doctor Who fan won't want to miss.

So that’s The Lonely Assassins – a game that heavily borrows genre trappings of other, more successful games, in order to push the Doctor Who narrative in a way that won’t be palatable to anyone except the most core of fans. It’s impressive how much effort went into developing this game, judging from the graphics assets, extensive writing, and voice acting, but it’s all in service of familiar and tedious game mechanics and a divisive story. It doesn’t reach the lofty heights of “Blink”, and like the Weeping Angels themselves, it’s an artifice best left ignored.