Hidden Mysteries (video game)

Hidden Mysteries
Doctor:	Thirteenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Yaz
Key crew
Publisher:	Apple Arcade
Developer:	Tilting Point LLC
Release details
Platform:	iOS
Genre:	Puzzle game
Release date:	7 April 2023

An Unlikely Heist was a video game released by Tilting Point LLC for iOS onto the Apple Arcade.

It featured the Thirteenth Doctor and Yasmin Khan in a puzzle solving mystery.

Synopsis

Dive into a mysterious new adventure right now! Doctor Who: An Unlikely Heist combines a thrilling new story and challenging puzzle gameplay into an epic adventure across time and space.

Play as the Thirteenth Doctor as you solve mysteries, search for hidden items, discover secret rooms, and complete exciting quests. Finding the smallest clues will help The Doctor solve this new, compelling mystery!

Plot

Episode 1

London

present day…

A cat walks down the street when suddenly the sky grows darker and a purple mist approaches, scaring the cat. As it runs into hiding in the sewers, the mist follows, turning the cat into a multi-eyed monster. The camera moves back to reveal the sky filled with a thunderstorm-like enormous purple cloud in the sky creating mists that fills the London streets.

The TARDIS materialises in the middle of the city, and out steps the Thirteenth Doctor followed by Yaz, examining the purple cloud, questioning the lack of people around. They take note of a voice in an old chariot on the roadside screaming "Help". Entering an antique shop to get a crowbar, they get the man out, who explains that everyone had been taken by alien robots. The Doctor notes that everything is covered in some material she calls Paradox Dust and it might help turn everything normal. As the man objects that no such thing is possible, he introduces himself as Doctor Erwin Green, which prompts the Doctor to show him what is actually possible, by throwing some Dust onto the chariot into a car again. Doctor Green immediately reacts with glee, telling them that he always thought there was more than met the eyes. He explains that people have been kidnapped by robots when the Cloud came.

Bronze Daleks capture Erwin Green

A part of the Cloud dissipates from a nearby building, and Doctor Green tells them that the kidnapped people are held in there. The Doctor starts collecting more Dust to help save people. Upon collecting more dust the building is turned back to normal, though the trio realise they're being watched from afar. More of the cloud disappears, revealing a bus from the future that has to be reverted back to a present day bus. Collecting more dust, they accomplish just that causing more of the Cloud to disappear. As they approach the building, Daleks approach them and kidnap Green. The Doctor speculates that the Cloud is a new weapon that the Daleks either created or found. Yaz also finds it curious that they're kidnapping people instead of killing them as they usually do.

The Doctor and Yaz return to the previous building they turned back to normal in order to investigate. They find a large glass cage with Green and other people in it, though everyone but Green is unconscious. The Doctor deduces that the lock needs two components in order to open but the Daleks return and surround the duo.

Episode 2

A Dalek is seen trapped by roots.

The Daleks surrounding the Doctor and Yaz demand for the Doctor to release the Dalek Commander or the captured humans will be exterminated. Although they don't know what the Daleks are talking about, they feign ignorance and pretend to have to go fetch him so they are released. Yaz isn't pleased with the Doctor negotiating with the Daleks but she says it was to stop them being killed and besides these Daleks are strange in the fact they're kidnapping rather than killing.

They collect enough dust to turn the Mall façade back, causing more of the Cloud to disappear. This reveals a cave with bats coming out of it which used to be an Underground station. Turning it back they decide to investigate it but notice a peculiar growling noise coming from a pet store. A dinosaur runs out, revealing itself to be the source of the noise. They transform the dinosaur into several small lizards and walk to the newly exposed building, which has flags of Starship UK. Turning them back to regular flags of Great Britain more of the Cloud disappears.

Entering the mall they are met with large plants covering their paths which has to be turned back to normal, likely a result of the Cloud once again. The Doctor uses the Dust to clear the plants and continues searching for the Dalek Commander. Before they can continue however, Daleks catch up to them and tells them that their patience has worn thin. The Daleks fire at them, not hitting them but instead hitting a glass room containing the rooted Dalek Commander. The Daleks order him to be released or they will be killed so they use the Dust to get the room of Cloud. The Doctor uses this to continue her negotiation of the planet, ordering them to free the humans and leave the planet. The Commander refuses, and tells her that the Dalek invasion has only just begun. The Doctor asks what time period the Daleks think they're at, to which it replies the 22nd century. The Doctor tells the Dalek that its got it wrong and that it's the 21st century. The Leader proclaims that the Doctor may have stalled them with the Cloud but that the Daleks will triumph. The Doctor comes to the realisation that the Cloud isn't of the Daleks' doing.

Episode 3

to be added

Characters

• Thirteenth Doctor
• Yasmin Khan
• Doctor Erwin Green
• Dalek Commander
• Tenth Doctor
• Mia
• Mark
• Sam

to be added

Collectables

• Paradox Dust

to be added

References

to be added

Notes

• Despite the game being suggested, by Yaz being the Doctor's only companion, to take place during the gap between Revolution of the Daleks and The Halloween Apocalypse, Yaz is depicted as being unaware of regeneration or the Doctor's previous incarnations. Even if one where to discount non-televised media, this runs in direct contradiction of Yaz explicitly learning of these concepts in Spyfall and Fugitive of the Judoon.
• Even though the Daleks depicted are that of the Bronze Dalek type, their necks light up red when they speak similar to that of the Reconnaissance Dalek in Resolution and the Defence Drones of Revolution of the Daleks.
• The Doctor's TARDIS is described as a Type 44 throughout this game. This is incorrect, as nearly all stories have referred to it as a Type 40.
• The crystalline formations around the TARDIS team in the cover art emulates that of the Series 11 promotional material.

Continuity

• The Doctor says she has met dinosaurs before. (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
• One of the buildings have flags from Starship UK and the crest of Elizabeth X; the Doctor recalling them meeting once. (TV: The Beast Below)
• Yaz has experience with Daleks. (TV: Resolution, Revolution of the Daleks)
• Yaz is unfamiliar with regeneration, despite conflicting accounts from earlier in her travels. (TV: Spyfall, PROSE: Chasing the Dawn) She also does not recognise the Tenth Doctor, despite prior accounts of them having already met. (COMIC: A Little Help from My Friends, Alternating Current)
• The Doctor returns to Satellite Five, and tells Yaz about her previous exploits there. (TV: The Long Game, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways)
• The Doctor tells Yaz about Rose Tyler, and how she became trapped in a parallel world. (TV: Doomsday) Yaz is seemingly learning about Rose for the first time, despite a prior account where she not only learned of her, but met an alternate timeline version of her. (COMIC: Alternating Current)

External links

• Hidden Mysteries at Apple Store