Doctor Who: The Runaway
Step inside the TARDIS with the Doctor in this beautiful, animated, interactive story from the Doctor Who team.
Doctor Who: The Runaway is an adventure developed by BBC Media Applications Technologies, released 16 January 2020 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Doctor Who: The Runaway is
Doctor Who: The Runaway is an adventure game developed by BBC Media Applications Technologies and released in 2020. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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 is down to you to help The Doctor as she faces the forces of evil, and teenage angst, in this…
How it plays
It is played from a virtual reality perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Doctor Who: The Runaway launched on 16 January 2020, within three weeks of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Journey to the Savage Planet and Metro Exodus: Sam's Story.
Released around the same time: Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Journey to the Savage Planet, Metro Exodus: Sam's Story.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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