Despite bearing the franchise name, however, The Lonely Assassins has very little of the Doctor in it. Your main contact from that point on continues to be Osgood, a character who has appeared in a number of TV episodes starting with the fiftieth anniversary special. In fact, it turns out you’ve been rescued by none other than that thwarter of alien threats to the Earth herself, Petronella Osgood! Fortunately you’re saved from death by fiery explosion when a strange woman, bearing question marks on her lapels, remotely connects to the phone from an undisclosed location to override the self-destruct. The silence is quickly broken after your third random attempt to unlock the phone fails when red lights flash, alarms blare, and an ominous self-destruct countdown appears on the device. The game starts in quiet fashion with the unlock screen of a cell phone that has mysteriously shown up in your possession. While it suffers from a distinct lack of the famed title character, which fans of the show are bound to find disappointing, the missing Doctor’s proxy does a fine job of bringing an endearing personal touch to this found phone tale of dangerous aliens running amok. The answer is Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins, the latest game from Kaigan Games, the creators of the SIMULACRA series. What do you get when you take one bit character from the television series Doctor Who and have them help players investigate a cell phone lost by another minor character from the same series? No, it’s not the setup for a joke.

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