Can I Run Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins?
Released in 2021, Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is an adventure casual game built by Maze Theory. The game supports a single player campaign. Metacritic places it at 81. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. It is localised into 9 languages according to the store listing. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. It carries 620 Steam reviews, a small sample, so first hand performance reports are thin.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i3, Ryzen 3 or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | nVidia GeForce 8800 GT, AMD Radeon HD 2400, Intel HD or any graphics card / APUs released from 2012 onwards |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 9.0c |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5, Ryzen 5 or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | nVidia GTX 1060, AMD RX 480 or better |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 9.0c |
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Setting and environment
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins places its action in an unsettling psychological setting, and the player works through self contained puzzle rooms. Play is presented in two dimensions. There are 6 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is demanding
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is undemanding on the graphics side. Its nVidia GTX 1060, AMD RX 480 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins. It targets DirectX 9.0, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins needs only 8 GB of RAM. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins at the floor and Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Disk footprint is light, near 2 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins?
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is light on hardware. Its minimum, nVidia GeForce 8800 GT, AMD Radeon HD 2400, Intel HD or any graphics card / APUs released from 2012 onwards, 4 GB RAM, about 2 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.93x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.09x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.48x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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Can my PC run Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3, Ryzen 3 or equivalent; GPU: nVidia GeForce 8800 GT, AMD Radeon HD 2400, Intel HD or any graphics card / APUs released from 2012 onwards; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins need?
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins needs about 2 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins?
The RTX 3060 runs Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is the GPU.