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Doctor Who: The Runaway

BBC Media Applications Technologies Ltd · 2020-01-20

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Jan 16, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Step inside the TARDIS with the Doctor in this beautiful, animated, interactive story from the Doctor Who team.

85%
positive of 178 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

You’ve been in a collision. You wake inside the TARDIS. The Doctor introduces you to the person, or thing, you collided with. He’s a strange and magnificent ball of living energy called Volta. Part surly teenager, part bomb, Volta is very unstable. In fact, he’s primed to explode. Big time. Unless he can be returned to his home planet, sharpish. The problem is, a squad of galactic busybodies has other plans for Volta. Bad ones. Drawn into a frantic chase, you become The Doctor’s unlikely assistant as she races against time to get Volta home to his parents. Armed with a sonic screwdriver, it i(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (26 reviews).
  • · Top 35% of 22,913 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyFamily Sharing

Player tags

VRActionSci-fiAdventureStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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