Doctor Who: The Adventure Games

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games
Developer	Sumo Digital
Publisher	BBC Wales Interactive (BBC.co.uk, Direct2Drive) Legacy Games (Steam, retail)
Distributor
Platforms	macOS, Windows
Released	City of the Daleks Windows (United Kingdom): June 2, 2010 macOS (United Kingdom): June 15, 2010 Windows WW (Direct2Drive): July 24, 2010 Blood of the Cybermen macOS, Windows (UK): December 22, 2010 Windows WW (D2D): July 24, 2010 TARDIS macOS, Windows UK (BBC), WW (D2D): August 27, 2010 Shadows of the Vashta Nerada macOS, Windows UK (BBC), WW (D2D): December 22, 2010 The Gunpowder Plot macOS, Windows (United Kingdom): October 31, 2011 Doctor Who: The Adventure Games - 5 Pack Windows, Worldwide (Steam, retail): March 17, 2014
Added to Museum	Windows: March 11, 2016

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games is an episodic direct-controlled adventure game.

Story

City of the Daleks

The Doctor and Amy travel to Kaalaan, the capital city of the Doctor's arch-enemy, the Daleks.

Blood of the Cybermen

The Doctor and Amy travel to the arctic, where the cybermen are converting archeologists into cyberslaves.

TARDIS

The Doctor and Amy must solve a mystery in an adventure that takes place entirely in the TARDIS.

Shadows of the Vashta Nerada

The Doctor and Amy have to avoid being killed by the Vashta Nerada, which only exist in the shadows.

The Gunpowder Plot

The Doctor, Amy, and Rory travel to London on November 5, 1605 and meet Guy Fawkes during the Gunpowder Plot

Development

Sumo Digital and Charles Cecil of Revolution Software signed on to bring the popular long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who to Windows with four interactive episodes. The episodes take place during the time period of the fifth season of the revived Doctor Who and were stated by the BBC to be canon to the television series.

As the episodes were being released, Sumo Digital and Charles Cecil signed on to create more episodes.

The second series was originally announced to be "bigger" than the first season, but in 2012, the BBC stated they have no plans to release any more adventure games. So, the second series ended up consisting of just the single episode.

The actors who portray characters on the television series portray their characters in the episodes. The actors include the Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, Karen Gillian as Amy Pond, and Nicholas Briggs as the Daleks and The Cybermen. Arthur Darvill portrayed Rory Williams in The Gunpowder Plot.

Releases

The episodes were published by BBC Wales Interactive in the United Kingdom as part of the television license which funds the British Broadcasting Company with no extra charge.

Episode one, City of the Daleks, was released in the United Kingdom on Windows on June 2, 2010 and on macOS on June 15, 2010.

Episode two, Blood of the Cybermen, was released in the United Kingdom on macOS and Windows on December 22, 2010.

On July 24, 2010, the first two episodes were published worldwide commercially on Direct2Drive by BBC Wales Interactive. Afterward, each episode was released worldwide on the same day on macOS and Windows.

Episode three, TARDIS, was released for macOS and Windows in the United Kingdom on the BBC website and worldwide on Direct2Drive on August 27, 2010.

Episode four, Shadows of the Vashta Nerada was released for macOS and Windows in the United Kingdom on the BBC website and worldwide on Direct2Drive on December 22, 2010.

On May 25, 2011, the episodes were removed from sale at Direct2Drive due to the purchase of the platform by Gamefly from IGN.

The Gunpowder Plot, retroactively designated episode five after BBC announced no further episodes of series two would be produced, was released in the United Kingdom on macOS and Windows on October 31, 2011.

All four episodes were published worldwide for Windows on Steam and at retail by Legacy Games on March 17, 2014.

By February 2015, the games were no longer available to download from the BBC website. They were removed from Steam on May 31, 2017 due to the expiration of the Legacy Games license with BBC.