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Doctor Who: The Edge of Time

"The Doctor has been hurled through time to the end of the universe. A virus that threatens to rip apart reality itself has been unleashed. Players can pilot the TARDIS on a journey across worlds both familiar…

64 12 November 2019

Doctor Who: The Edge of Time is an adventure developed by Maze Theory, released 12 November 2019 on PlayStation VR2, PlayStation VR, Meta Quest 2 and Oculus Quest.

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What Doctor Who: The Edge of Time is

Doctor Who: The Edge of Time is an adventure game developed by Maze Theory and released in 2019. It was published by Playstack. It is available on PlayStation VR2, PlayStation VR, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest, Oculus VR, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"The Doctor has been hurled through time to the end of the universe. A virus that threatens to rip apart reality itself has been unleashed. Players can pilot the TARDIS on a journey across worlds both familiar and strange to recover a series of powerful time crystals that can repair spacetime and ultimately save the universe itself."
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Doctor Who series

Doctor Who: The Edge of Time is the 33rd of 41 entries we hold in the Doctor Who series. It arrived a year after Doctor Who Infinity. The next entry was Doctor Who: Thirteen in 2020. Its critic score of 64 is 5 points above the series average of 59. The highest-rated entry is Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins at 90.

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How it was received

Doctor Who: The Edge of Time holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Doctor Who: The Edge of Time launched on 12 November 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds and Persona 5 Royal. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Persona 5 Royal.

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When did Doctor Who: The Edge of Time come out?
Doctor Who: The Edge of Time was released on 12 November 2019 for PlayStation VR2, PlayStation VR, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest, Oculus VR, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR.

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