Doctor Who adventure games get second series

The free to play Doctor Who adventure games have been so successful that a second season is already in the works.

The show's head writer, Stephen Moffat, will again be involved with the new series as executive producer. Each of the episodes will be written by one of the show's writers, with the new episodes scheduled to run parallel with the return of the television series next year.

The final episode of the first series isn't out yet, but the first three games have already received over 1.6 million downloads so far. Head of multiplatform and vision at the BBC, Simon Nelseon says "Given the success of the first series, we'd be daft not to recommission", adding that "for many, these have been the first computer games they have downloaded ... we think we've really helped push the concept of families actively playing together."

Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.