Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time

Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time is a puzzle game based on BBC’s long running
TV series Doctor Who. It features the eleventh doctor and Amy Pond who
retrieve an SOS signal from the Jones family. After arriving at the family’s
spaceship they find out that it has been boarded by a Dalek scientist that is
looking for a time engine. An explosion occurs and the family is scattered
through time. Now it’s up to the doctor and his companion to travel through
time in an attempt to save them. Locations that will be visited include an
Incan temple, the frozen tombs of Telos and a Dalek ship.

The game is played from a slightly tilted top-down perspective and the player
takes control of both the doctor and Amy. For each level the player has to
navigate the two heroes to the exit while solving puzzles in the process.
Puzzles often involve activating switches to open up new passages through the
levels. These can be activated by standing on them or by pushing boxes onto
them. Some switches are binary and has to be activated once while pressure
switches need to be kept weighted down. The two characters need to cooperate
to advance. For example, one activates a switch so that the other can get to
the next. The doctor and Amy has different capabilities. Only the doctor can
push and climb over boxes while only Amy can move over thin floor tiles and
crawl through gaps. There are also bad guys that have to be avoided, including
Cybermen, Daleks and Silurians.

Throughout the levels the player will find time orbs, fragment of the time
ship’s drive system. Collecting these makes it easier to fix the ship. Other
collectibles include gold coins that can be used to vaporise the metal of
cybermen.

Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time