Twelve Minutes
Twelve Minutes is a real-time top-down interactive thriller with an accessible click and drag interface. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe. The game blends the dream-like tension of The…
Twelve Minutes is an adventure developed by Luis Antonio, released 19 August 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $5.85 at GameBillet. The main story takes about 6.6 hrs to finish.
What Twelve Minutes is
Twelve Minutes is an adventure game developed by Luis Antonio and released in 2021. It was published by Annapurna Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You take the role of the husband, on what should be a romantic evening with your wife. The night turns into a nightmare when a police detective breaks into your home, accuses your wife of murder and beats you to death. Only for you to find yourself immediately returned to the exact moment you opened the front door, stuck in a 12 minute time loop, doomed to relive the same terror again and again. Unless you can find a way to use the knowledge of what’s coming to change the outcome and break the loop.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Twelve Minutes holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 5 points above the year average. Players rate it 73, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6.6 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $5.85, that works out to about $0.89 per hour of the main story, or $1.22 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2300 | AMD Phenom II X4 965, 2 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GTS 450, 1 GB | AMD Radeon HD 5770, 1 GB. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $5.85 at GameBillet, 77% below its usual price. Across the 4 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $7.49 — a spread of $1.64 for an identical product.
What it launched against
Twelve Minutes launched on 19 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Black Book and Quake. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Black Book, Quake.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Twelve Minutes yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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