Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time

Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time

Skip · Shooter · 2019

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 10, under the fair line, at $24.99.

Length
2.6h 3.4h to 100%
Value
$9.61/hr
Reviews
63% of 282 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$9.61/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews63% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 64% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 126 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A new mysterious enemy threatens to tear apart the universe and only you can stop them! Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time lets players embark on an adventure through space and time. Travel across the universe, visit alien locations, pilot the TARDIS and solve the mystery of the controlling force behind the Reality Virus.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti / AMD Radeon RX 470 or greater, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 44 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 83 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Red Matter ($24.99, scores 49) and BONEWORKS ($29.99, scores 64) both outscore it.

The drop-off

85% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

The game is pretty fun You go around doing what the Doctor asks and live for an "edge of time" trying to save the universe. Surviving against Weeping Angels, hiding and fighting against Daleks and other adventures. The Weeping Angel gameplay although it is fun having to look for an Angel while doing something, it was repetitive and could have a bit more to it. The Dalek gameplay segment was fun, having to sneak...
AchM4sterProRecommendedafter 3.4hJan 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Some rough edges, and you'll probably have to remap some controls to be able to move, but overall a really fun 3-hour Doctor Who VR experience. The Weeping Angels chapter is genuinely terrifying and worth the asking price all on its own!
MobiusRecommendedafter 2.8hDec 2024Read on Steam
In my opinion does not worth the full price. I got it on big sale, so it was not so big dassapointment. Plot is mediocre at best. It was fun to experience Doctor Who in VR tho. But level and game design ruined all for me. Game has many points where you can stuck. From the beginning of the game: check the washing machines. I checked all machines without monsters, then tried to interact with those which has monsters...
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 2.5hApr 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time scores 10/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1075400/doctor-who-the-edge-of-time
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+3
Critics60
Players63
Metacritic critics · 282 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMaze Theory
PublisherPlaystack
GenreShooter
Released2019
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12