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Around June of last year, the good Doctor made his way onto PCs with two episodic-style video games that featured familiar enemies and fun plotlines. Between novelizations, CD dramas, comics, and video games, it's easy to fill your life with Doctor Who-related material, 365 days of the year. If you're based in the UK, you can watch it on iPlayer for free.Although Doctor Who holds the record for the longest-running science fiction television program (or programme, if you like) of all time, I think it should have some sort of record for spin-off material as well. It's a tricky problem to solve, but the old adventure games show that the potential is there-and the arrival of a new Doctor and showrunner surely make this a good time to try again.ĭoctor Who currently airs every Sunday in the UK on BBC One, and on the same day on BBC America in the US. It is a family-friendly Sunday evening show after all. It could be a really exciting adventure game with an emphasis on exploration. Embrace the idea of small episodes set in different times and on different planets. It doesn’t have to be an epic adventure covering the Doctor’s history either. It doesn’t have to be a tough game, though, some high-production fan service will do.įans want to poke around a highly detailed TARDIS, pull some levers, hear the engines go ‘whoosh’. Tom: An adventure game seems like the best way to let the Doctor caper about on screen, but Doctor Who has the Sherlock problem: it’s hard to play as a character with a genius intellect who then has to solve puzzles. Travelling further back, it looks like pre-New Who games popped up on the BBC Micro ( The First Adventure looks, er, rubbish) and the PC with Destiny of the Doctors, which the UK mag gave a magnificent 21% back in 1997. On consoles, the Doctor featured in the now-deceased Lego Dimensions toys-to-life games, if you ever wanted to team up Peter Capaldi with Sonic the Hedgehog. There was a flash-based online game that shuttered in 2014, Worlds in Time.

The follow-up to those adventure games was the disappointing platformer/puzzle game Eternity Clock, which you can't get on Steam anymore. Hell, get Paul Cornell to write them-he's been writing stories featuring the different Doctors for his entire career, plus he wrote two of my favourite episodes from the modern series ('Human Nature'/'The Family of Blood'). While the facial animation is a bit Gerry Anderson-esque, a PC adventure game still makes a lot of sense-and if you remove voice acting as a requirement, developers could even make adventure games about past Doctors, with more of a '70s or '80s art style. Samuel: The adventure games were on the right track (we gave City of the Daleks a respectable 64% in the UK magazine), and it's pretty amazing that the BBC bankrolled those and gave them away for free to UK viewers (they were $5 each in the US).