The BEST Doctor Who Game is Lost INSIDE Another Game 

Two points of clarification: 1. I am not British and am in fact an American, it has been brought to my attention that the joke was a little too subtle. 2. The Doctor Who TV show itself ended in 1989. But in 1996, they attempted to revive the IP with a Hollywood film, but it didn’t succeed so it stayed “dead” until 2005. I said the show ended in 1996, as I was referring to the last bit of ‘Classic Who’ content with the McGann film. I felt it wasn’t necessary to explain that in the video, but again it was brought to my attention that it may have been misleading so here we are. But thank you all for over 200k views, this is incredible and I’m so glad everyone is enjoying it! Edit: 200k now not 100k what the heck

The problem with Doctor Who games is always the Doctor himself. If you play as the companion, you're not the star of the story, which feels bad. If you play as the Doctor, you're playing a character who's main ability is being smarter and more knowledgeable than everyone around them, which is a lot harder to make a game out of than some guy who shoots lasers out of his hands or can teleport.

If you liked this, I think you'd also enjoy a mod based around Doctor Who. For Fallout New Vegas is Fallout Who Vegas, a fun mod with a story about your character inheriting the Doctor's TARDIS through a bootstrap paradox after they died for good on Trenzalore, following an alternate timeline to the show. The TARDIS is partly a player home and partly a replacement for fast travel. It has new skills, one of which is a TARDIS piloting skill to unlock new features of the TARDIS, lots of new locations, you can pick basically any of the Doctor's TARDIS interiors with an exterior to match, you can use the crafting system with high science and medicine skills to become a Time Lord, and you can get different looks for the sonic screwdriver and each Doctor's outfit by finding hypercubes of their memories scattered around the mod areas. It's a very good mod, highly recommend, especially with Xoanon's patches and additions for it.

We were just big fans of the show! :) Fun fact, the artists went wild and built EVERY console room variation...more than we had Doctors for. For the most part I could link the console room to the incarnation of the Doctor you are currently using, but that left one spare. So if you play as Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor, if the day of the month is a multiple of 4, you get the wooden Secondary Console Room instead. Also...if you wanna milk the game for everything it has, there is a purple stud hidden in the back right corridor out of Capaldi's console room - it's a dead end but you can jump to collect it. That purple stud respawns every time you re-enter the TARDIS ;) Have fun...

My favourite dialogue from this game is the reactions you get from The Doctor and Doc Brown, when they enter each other’s time vehicles: Doc Brown in the TARDIS: “You really should have listened to me when I said ‘If you're gonna build a time machine, do it with some style!’” The Doctor (12) in the DeLorean: “I could save the Universe three times over before this 'baby' hits 88 miles per hour! Quickly! Back to the TARDIS!”

I do like the fact that after the Doctor Who level in the main game, they kept using Daleks as a type of main commander enemy type that just showed up wherever the devs wanted a stronger base enemy. Also Sauron summoning a dalek ship out of his eye while fighting batman in metropolis is definantly a moment of all time.

Well this is a surprise! - I worked on this game and some expansions, from 2015 to 2017, didn't expect to see any love for it in 2024! but you're right, some IPs really did get a lot of love (some not so much) but Dr Who had a ton of extra work ploughed into it for all of the Doctor and Tardis variants, and the levels were among the best. glad you enjoyed :)

The problem is that I don't think we will ever get a proper Doctor Who videogame ever again. the Doctor Who Adventure games is the closest thing we will ever have to a good game that works with the tone and style of Doctor Who. The problem is that it is really damn hard to even find. But I really do think an actual stand-alone LEGO Doctor Who game would be fantastic, especially with how they are doing lego games now, it would be even better than before.

P.S.... ALL of the Doctor Who content in Lego Dimensions is pretty great. Likely, there wasn't enough time for you to do a playthrough as in depth as possible with that game. Lots of levels have a TARDIS port and most of them relate in some way to the level they appear in. In the Simpsons level of the main game, you can find a port that takes you back in time to another cartoon, The Flintstones. In fact, it's been so long since I played the game... The only other notable example I can think of, is the port found in one of the "Fantastic Beasts..." levels which leads to the 2010s version of the Britcom "Red Dwarf." Lego Dimensions' gameplay was probably over-simplistic, but the digital artistry on display was excellent. Also, Dimensions is the only "Toys to Life" title where playing with the toys was integrated into the game. You move pieces around the game pad to solve puzzles and escape traps and whenever you upgrade vehicles to a different form, a book of building instructions appears and you can actively build the new one. It's really sad the TTL fad burned out so furiously. This game was truly special.

i love how capaldi's little lego self also runs like a penguin with his arse on fire

The other great thing about the Tardis is the game was it worked in other levels and added Easter Eggs to The Simpsons level as you could find a Tardis pad and go backwards in time and it would be a Flintstones homage. Go forward in time and you would be in a Jettsons area. There is also a Red Dwarf area you can visit using the Tardis but can’t remember where that one is. They should release it without the figures and just have access to every character and slightly rework the pad mechanics and it would probably sell quite well but they probably have lost access to some of the licenses.

To get minikits in other levels you also need to time travel with the Tardis which leads you to other Doctor Who scenarios like the Silurian Arc or the Versailles Palace where you fight enemies and solve puzzles revolving the episodes those secnarios come from

Out of all the official “full-length” DW games, I gotta say the adventure games are my favorite. They aren’t perfect, but I feel like they are the closet game adaptation of the show we have gotten so far. I like the episodic nature of the game, as it allows for more variety in locations. My favorite episode is the Elizabethan England one.

Great video! I remember watching some gameplay a while after Lego Dimensions and being surprised by how well the two properties worked together. A full on Lego Doctor Who game would be so amazing and full of potential. Also, Fifteen's theme is so good!

But there's more doctor who content hidden in the game. There's a main quest all about Doctor who and four or five special hidden levels inside other levels, like dinosaurs in a spaceship inside the lord of the rings quest or the black archive in other level and the spaceship from the girl in the fireplace inside the doctor who main story quest. I could stay here talking for hours about this hidden doctor who levels...

I am so happy to hear that Capaldi is your favorite. I feel like when Smith switched to Capaldi that's when everyone dropped. He is one of my favorite Doctor as well.

There’s no sorry or anything but I love messing about with the TARDIS addons to Garry’s mod

With the main campaign you don’t have to use the main trio after you scan them for the first time if you have other characters with the same abilities. The only difference is that their reactions to the story don’t pop up without them being there.

Tardis Engineers 2 is an amazing Minecraft: Java mod about finding, rebuilding and flying a TARDIS and responding to distress calls, and has tons of enemies from the show, actual time travel to different time periods and travelling between dimensions. The actual TARDIS aspect is so insanely impressive, I don't even like minecraft on its own but I can't recommend it enough

With all the big budget licensed games coming out, I'd really love a massive open universe Doctor Who game that took 10 years to develop. Then give it mod support to immortalize it.

"There IS a good Who game - you just need a hundred individual pieces of plastic to play it" "Well that's alright then!"

The Dr Who VR Game is not bad. It's a short experience (and there are Weeping Angel too..) but it was a fun one.

Love this video! The thumbnail, the video itself and the closing montage? All awesome, great stuff!

Your thumbnail, editing, and EXCELLENT music choice is something to be marvelled at. FANTASTIC video!

Daaaamn! The edit at the end is great. Thank you. It was great to remember keypoints from the whole show

Woah this is really well made. Phenomenal storytelling, music use, video editing, a 10/10 video essay! Very impressive, I’m looking forward to seeing more from you!

That edit at the end was amazing! The whole video is incredible! Well done!

This video was very well made and kept me engaged to the very end. I honestly had to do a massive double take when I saw you didn't even have 1k subs. This production quality, care, and effort is what I would expect to see clicking on a video from a 500k+ sub channel.

I was always a little disappointed that Christopher Eccleston didn't get more than a single season as the Doctor.

I remember playing Lego Dimensions when I was a kid but that was a couple years before I got into Doctor Who and I was so confused about what was happening. Years later I remembered the game and it was nice to replay it and remember two parts of my childhood.

i love the montage at the end. lots of love put into it, it seems. great video!

Thank you for this video, i came curious about the game, but i never really got into Doctor Who and whenever i try to look up where to start i get confused and just don't do it. Your video made it clear to me where to start and what to expect. Even after watching videos that were supposed to hint in this area. Great work!

I think also because the BBC doesn't have much money, and how they can't outsource development to a big company because big companies don't want to take a gamble on doctor who games, the bbc almost always hires inexperienced, or new developers. Especially developers that are cheap or mainly do mobile or smaller scope games

Really glad I stumbled across this video, you did a great job in researching it and presenting it in a fun way! Cant wait to see more from you!

As soon as I heard you mention Murray Gold and Segun Akinola and then you used J.J. from L.A. Noire, I knew we were the same person and you deserved a like. Plus the rest of the video, great editing etc. whatever

I loved the wee montage at the end! Great video, when I went inside the TARDIS as another doctor and realised the interior had changed I was shook

This entire video I was genuinely wondering what game it could be and thinking at least there's LEGO Dimensions but that's not really a doctor who video so... and then the video turns out to be about LEGO Dimensions, hell yeah. Really good video.

I do really hope that some day they make a standalone lego doctor who game. It's really hard to go wrong with lego games since most have so much love and care put into them, you can tell the devs are just as much of nerds about any given series as the fans are.

The fact that you can play as Batman, Doctor Who, Chell from Portal, Homer Simpson, and Sonic the Hedgehog all at the same time makes Lego Dimensions one of the greatest games ever made.

Road to 10k will be short with this quality of video! incredible job.

I really miss this game. I had collected every expansion set for it. But sadly I gave up trying to beat it because the character tags kept dying on me and making them unusable. I really wish they’d rerelease it digitally on steam. I’d gladly rebuy it all again just to be able to play it on my pc.

dude i love your music choice for this video, both ace attorney AND botw??? added so much to the video.

Sonic fans and Dr. Who fans feel like the kids who would be picked last at gym class and they would look at each other and say to one another "damn you too?"

The doctor was the goat in both gameplay and story, he is the one to put away the main bad guy during the main story and he has so many abilities all rolled up into one minifigure, he really saved you some money so you don't have to go buy other characters. i also love the crossover aspect of this game, having the Doctor interacting with characters that he would have never met otherwise, like in the main story where the Doctor shares a small dialogue with Glados from Portal.

Fantastic video, I couldn't have described the game any better. I vividly recall just how detailed this game was, even down to the idle animations for each Doctor. The amount of love that went into that expansion truly is worthy of the greatest show in the galaxy.

Biggest brain plays getting those NFC tags to mimic the character tokens. I was always put off because of the huge financial cost of it all but I may legit buy the game and portal now and just get a dozen of the tags and 3d print some art to attach them to. Thank you for your informative video

On thing i love about doctor who is the fact that they always try to use practical effects against GCI and that’s amazing!!!

somehow you managed to keep me interested and entertained on a topic I've never cared about before. Honestly great work and kudos 👏👏 I'm slightly interested in doctor who now lol

This video was really entertaining and well made! Nice job!

Surprising imo the newest DW vr game is the best one ironically its the best jodie Doctor material and it being linear worked perfectly for it as you could still feel immerssed by exploring the areas to solve puzzles

That's some amazing work with your video ! 10/10 :D Enjoyed every single bit of it !

I enjoyed this game a lot. I bought all the sets as they were coming out. It was a pain waiting for new ones, back then, lol. I even have the exclusive Green Arrow and Supergirl figures.

I feel the same as you on this. I really want a great Doctor Who game and this is probably the best we have which is such a shame. There is great potential for sure. Great video though👍. Love that you used 15s theme for the outro, it’s so good.

Got this recced at the perfect time, just did my first watches of Series 3-4, The Tennant Specials, The 60th Specials and the 2023 Christmas Special and I have been loving what I’ve seen so far! As of this video, it’s an incredibly well edited analysis and I found the game within a game angle really interesting!

9:03 as someone who has the game there are lots of other characters in it that do these things so you aren't stuck playing as the base characters :)

Cool video. As someone who lived through the wasteland era and played all the British Dr Who 8bit and 16 bit era games it’s fun to see that someone managed to do a good one eventually! DW2012 is a fun channel to see an Indy take on Who episodes.

I really appreciate bathing magic players with the thumbnail and title. Excellent work

The way you had 12 zooming around on k9 at 9:45 was hilarious and cute for me 🤣

this is really cool, and so well made! i love seeing someone talk about lego dimensions doctor who, it was sooo good. can't wait to see more!

VERY good choice of scenes at the ending of video!

I've been thinking of how Doctor Who as a franchise could be incorporated into a game. I'm thinking it would play out like a cross between Fallout and No Man's Sky (Not with infinite rng planets of course) each planet would have it's own past, present, and future. You can pick up certain quests along your mainline quests, which involve solving puzzles through time travel. Like one quest there could be an old woman laments to you, that she lost her childhood pendant given to her by her mom before she died, then you can go back in time to when she lost it. Then you can either give it to her in the past or the present, and the reward is different. Maybe if you give it to her in the past, he life is different and while she doesn't remember even talking to you about it, she mentions that your the person who returned it to her all those years ago. The main thing is, I'd want to incorporate regeneration into the game, which makes me skeptical if it should be The Doctor. Either it could be a Doctor from another universe, or just some other Time Lord. You can customize your Time Lord, but that Time Lord will be lost if you die, and you regenerate, and your new Doctor's look, gender, race, and personality is randomized. Of course if you want to bring YOUR Doctor to the end, you could play the game super safely or save scum, but regeneration leads to your Time Lord having different skills and weaknesses, kind of like the game Rogue Legacy. Also like Fallout, and Elder Scrolls, you can pick up certain companions along the way, who can help you out and change the story depending on their history and background, so someone in the medical field could help out when your trying to save someone who is sick or injured, and someone who has an engineering background can help with broken technology. I don't know what that would take developer wise, I just know it'd probably be a pain in the ass to make, but I feel like if people wanted a Doctor Who video game, that's the best way it could be done.

great video! i hoped you enjoyed the new doctor who as much as i did because i am so excited for more content. a new game that highlights the fun of the show would be a dream come true (also go capaldi gang!)

You are very underrated my man, I found you on Reddit and immediately subscribed. this video is very very good. Your style reminds me of Nick Robinson a bit. Keep it up

cool video i really liked it and your editing style is cool too also great music choices

I’ve loved Doctor Who sense I was a kid and as a big gamer myself I’ve always wanted a good Doctor Who game. This was very unexpected but I honestly find it ironic that the genre of games with the most creativity, Lego games, happens to also be the best Doctor Who game.

a brilliant video mate, such little subscribers - Im looking forward to seeing more from you!

3:47 Funny that you're using the Wind Temple OST, I was just craving listening to the ascent and boss theme again. They're incredible

We need a lego doctor who game Imagine being able to pick and choose doctors and their companions

Dude I remember seeing doctor who on Netflix and always saying no I’m good,but when I saw it said “leaving soon” I binged watched it and omg it jumpstarted my love for the show.by the time I finished Matt’s seasons,Peter’s season started and I liked it so far

Wonderful Video. Loved the music!

Of course the *one* Doctor Who game I could never get my hands on but was always curious about turned out to be the best pick

Underrated Channel, Deserves more Subscribers.

I’m hoping this video goes wildly viral and it lights a fire under Lego and DW’s butts and they give us a full Doctor Who Lego game because I would play the shit out of that.

soooo glad my dad hopped on collecting most of the characters while the game was being sold, we even have the doctor who ones! (I wasn't able to beat it because my progress reset about 2/3 of the way through and I didn't feel like playing afterwards cuz I was mad and now all our lego dimensions stuff just kinda rots under the tv stand and no one really feels like pulling it out, setting it up just to kill a bunch of Daleks with Unikitty)

Before I clicked on this video, I thought “LEGO Dimensions had a hidden Doctor Who level that was amazing” And then you read my mind!! I have all that old stuff and all the old Doctor Who LEGO expansions too. I had no idea what I have is that valuable although only for the Wii U version of the game.

that montage at the end is really good.

Great video! I think I have Lego Dimensions at home stuck in a drawer somewhere, I'll have to look for it. Your narration and editing are fantastic, I really enjoyed your style and passion so I definitely want to check out more of your videos. I saw a preview of this video on the Doctor who subreddit, so I was delighted when I saw the full thing posted here on RU-vid.

There are some pretty great Doctor Who mods for Skyrim. I was modding Skyrim and found like 3 different doctor who mods and installed all of them. They were all pretty great, but one of them suprised me with some story and a bunch of stuff. Running through and running the Tardis (in VR) was pretty awesome. I haven’t found everything for that mod yet, but so far it's been great

A detective doctor who game where you can visit multiple locations with their own problems but all connect to one greater thing in the end would be nice. You help a bunch of people in any order you want and once they are helped you discover some real big bad and solve a mystery then you have to fix whatever caused it.

I grew up in the early '90s with a family that was obsessed with the original run of Dr.Who, and it was always exciting when I saw a Dr.Who reference in media since it wasn't nearly as popular then. My favorite was a type in-command game called Where's Hugo 2.

When I read the title, I figured Dimensions was gonna pop up, but it still came in like a jumpscare

I honestly think the best way to do a doctor who game would be a shorter vr game with the weeping angels. And if it used the eye tracking of the Psvr 2 or some other vrs you could utilise some great horror features. Especially since that way it would be entertaining even if you played as a companion (as that would be the only way a dw game would work well)

Excellent content here man 👍🏻

Thanks for the video. Hope you are enjoying the latest anniversary specials.

Fun fact, there are a bunch of hidden short Doctor Who levels in other Level packs. If you use the Tardis in some of them they take you to the setting of some Doctor Who stories, For example the Goonies Level can take you to the Power of The Daleks

This is a fantastic video, brilliant

Also, my favorite easter egg is that when you leave Seven idle, there is a chance that he might start playing the spoons, which is just basically McCoy's trademark, so I love that that was included.

Capaldi's run was amazing! I also dropped off at the death of the 11th doctor because I started with season 5 and for some dumb reason stopped watching after that Christmas special, but biy was that a mistake, 12 and Clara have the best Doctor and Companion dynamic (second only to Donna because "Duhh"), Capaldi's performance is top teir, and there are a bunch of really really well written episodes even if there are also a bunch of misses. All his Christmas specials are fantastic!

I remember really enjoying this game and the Dr Who elements back in the day! Although I remember the game would often crash when you’d change Doctors sometimes. It was still a great time.

The fact that whovians go by “whovians”and not “whooligans” is a missed opportunity

I can't believe I watched 4 and a half minutes of this for him to reveal his big hidden game was Lego Dimensions.

Peter Capaldi's run is the best of them all

I loved this back in the day. It was so novel having not only an actual Lego set (the Full build Tardis & interior with some figures) but also a Lego game that had Doctor Who included. Flying the Tardis is smooth and it spins, and The Doctor regenerates to the next incarnation when he breaks apart. I wish they would make a full game.

I saw the title of this video and immediately knew you would be talking about Lego Dimensions

I remember playing that when I was really young, that and the Portal one which also ends with a completely new ending song

What's the song that kicks in around 11:30? Great video by the way :)

From the thumbnail I thought this was going to be about the MTG Doctor Who set, so thanks for reminding me of Lego Dimensions instead!

That intro music triggered my fight or flight O_O

This video was the first time I'd thought about dimensions since it released (it was obviously marketed towards younger kids). But the actual interest in the world and passion for making an accurate, interesting game is totally visible even just watching the game footage.

Awesome vid, thx a lot :)