Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins
Building on the terrifying legacy of the Weeping Angels, first encountered in the iconic story “Blink”, Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is a found-phone horror game developed by the award-winning creators of…
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is an adventure developed by Kaigan Games, released 19 March 2021 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android.
What Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is an adventure game developed by Kaigan Games and released in 2021. It was published by Maze Theory. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Amidst a sinister series of events at a seemingly abandoned house in London, someone goes missing, and you find their phone. When it begins to self-destruct, ex-UNIT scientist Petronella Osgood enlists your help to uncover hidden clues and solve cryptic puzzles. Will you unravel the truth behind the chilling disappearance before it’s too late? But remember: don't turn your back, don't look away and DON’T BLINK.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror, mystery, science fiction and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Doctor Who series
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is the 35th of 41 entries we hold in the Doctor Who series. It arrived 8 months after Doctor Who: Thirteen. The next entry was Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality in 2021. Its critic score of 90 is 31 points above the series average of 59. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 16 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins launched on 19 March 2021, within three weeks of It Takes Two, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut and Monster Hunter Rise. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: It Takes Two, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, Monster Hunter Rise.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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