Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins
Worth it · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 2.7h 3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.22/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 726 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Uncover the dark secrets of Wester Drumlins and confront a new evil in a thrilling found-phone mystery from the award-winning creators of Sara Is Missing and SIMULACRA.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 29 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Sally Face - Episode One ($2.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Dear Esther: Landmark Edition ($1.99, scores 35).
More about Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 8 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
1 of the 354 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
This game reminds me of how good Doctor Who used to be and also how lame it has become. Overall it was ok especially if you liked the Simulacra games. Overall I will recommend for Doctor Who fans. Has enough good nostalgia to outweigh some of the more modern nonsense.
1 more review
I have sort of a love/hate relationship with this game. To be fair, it was of FANTASTIC quality, and I loved the insanely great graphic inclusions and real-life style of the game. On the other hand, even taking your time as a first-time player, this game is only four to five hours long at MAX. I played for two hours from beginning to finish and it was my first time playing, and I made most of the achievements. So I...
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No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1508270/doctor-who-the-lonely-assassinsReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.