A Doctor Who Reccing Community

Creator: deepandlovelydark

Rating: Teen and up audiences

Word Count/Length/Size: ...depends on how long you're willing to spend playing, really. It kept me entertained for hours, personally.

Text adventure remix of "Heaven Sent", with new twists and turns along the way...

Characters/Pairings: Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswin Oswald, many others to discover

Warnings/Notes: Major Character Death, any other content warnings that you could potentially apply to 'Heaven Sent'.

Reasons for reccing: Sometimes you just find something so very strikingly unusual and wonderful on the internet, and that thing is a lovingly-crafted, meticulously put together, fully functional text adventure adaptation of one of your favorite Doctor Who stories of all time. And if you're thinking right now that it doesn't sound like a very interesting thing to play because you've watched the episode already and know how it ends, I would very much advise you to think again. It may take you a while to get the hang of the controls, but once you do, you'll be plunged into a rich, hilariously Doctor-ish world in which you play as the Twelfth Doctor, trying to escape from the Confession Dial. And there are many, many ways to do that - not just the solution that was presented in the episode actual.  

There are so many things you can do in this game. I can pretty much guarantee that any reasonable command you type into the game will come back with a response of some sort (and some unreasonable commands too!), and every line is delivered in pitch-perfect Twelve voice, with that sarcastic humor that we've all come to know and love. You can play your guitar, attempt to kiss the Veil (key word: attempt), talk to Clara - die again, and again, and again, and again... Reaching the ending and getting that perfect score of 2178308 is very satisfying indeed. I advise you strongly to try it for yourself - you'll be surprised, I think, at how widely you'll be grinning.

Of course (as I mentioned before) there are many other ways to escape the Dial, some of which are unbelievably creative in nature. It is possible to get Iris Wildthyme, among other people, to break you out - although I won't tell you how, exactly. My favorite ending that I've achieved so far is the one involving Compassion, and I won't say any more about that either, apart from mentioning that it involves a rather tricky choice that the Doctor needs to make.

This is how a Doctor Who video game should be - vast, weaving, and deliciously entertaining no matter how many times you play. It obviously took the creator a very long time to put together, so I'm just about begging you at this point to give it a play and then let them know what you thought of it.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11962725