Eight months of total playtime could very well be years of real time if you count the need to eat and sleep and work at a job and such. If a game was played that much, then it would stand to reason that it was someone's favorite game. And that's before the second player got handed the save file and started playing themselves. The universe may be interesting to the Doctor, but the computer game could be just as interesting if the time lord put the work into making it just as interesting.

Good luck trying to find a copy of Fortuna to play here, though.

"My ship does have a distress beacon, but it needs to be activated manually..." Hermes takes a second to think up a plan. I can always try running as fast as possible to look for my ship. My speed stat is technically 10, but it's functionally infinite."