Dan Donnan

About a week ago it was brought to my attention that there was a new Doctor Who game on the block. Although most of the comments that I had seen were along the lines of “ugh, micro transactions!” I suspected that maybe this wasn’t actually a new game, and was the one that is built around NFTs. It turns out that this wasn’t exactly new, as it had a soft launch last year, but it wasn’t the one involving purchasing a receipt of a jpeg so I decided to check it out.

While I haven't played every Doctor Who game that has released since I got into the show back in 2005, I've played a decent amount of them. During the Matt Smith era, The Adventure Games were pretty good (I enjoyed them enough to replay them and write a guide), but the paired DS and Wii titles - Evacuation Earth and Return to Earth - were bad. Real bad. I'm not even sure how I finished Return to Earth after a bug meant the game camera was in a completely different room to the one I was blindly navigating. For Christmas, I was gifted another 2 Doctor Who games in the form of the Duo Bundle for Switch. The Edge of Reality is a console / PC port of the VR game The Edge of Time, and The Lonely Assassins was a game I hadn't even heard of until I saw this collection existed. It turns out it was originally a mobile game released in 2021 that acted as a sequel to a critically acclaimed episode from 2007.