Twelve Minutes

12 minutes starts off with an interesting top-down view of an apartment foyer. The tutorial and game mechanics are offered by navigating down the hallway to your apartment door and opening it. The controls and gameplay are a very straight forward click and drag system which is very intuitive.

The graphics are quite nice for the style and suits the story and gameplay. It is nothing special though and no use of ray tracing or any particularly breathtaking visuals. The voice cast were great and this is no surprise considering the three main actors were James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley and Willem DaFoe. No expense spared in the casting department which helps with the immersion.

The game revolves around your tiny apartment with your wife and is played out in real time with a maximum of 12 minutes through any given time loop. Each time someone dies or the current story is played out the story is rewound back to the start of the 12 minutes and the loop starts again.

Whilst it does sound extremely monotonous, each play through gives you more information and answers in order to use that newly acquired information to go forward the loop after and it continues until you are able to solve the mystery and get one or several of the many endings. I thought the story was excellent and was not disappointed.

I can see how some people may be turned off by the repetitiveness of running through the same scene and dialogue over and over again, but for me this was the interesting part. It wasn't until I was attempting achievements that it started to feel a bit grindy.

I had an absolute blast searching for new ways to gather more information and get closer to the end and thought it was a very clever way for a point and click puzzle/adventure game if you would even call it that. This was one of my favourite games in a long time and I can't wait for Annapurna Interactive to try something similar in a new release. I would definitely be playing on launch that's for sure!

I seriously fell in love with this game. Even when I finished the game, I couldn't get over it for a long time. The voice cast is excellent, the story is gripping and wonderfully done. In short, the game is very professional. The game never lags. The more you play, the more you play, it would be perfect if we finally told the woman everything and got together again. The game only gives us one ending, so I don't think the game has a happy ending. I wish we could be together again with our wife, tell the truth, be happy and the game would be over. I don't remember playing a game that affected me this much in my life. The drawings, the house we live in, etc., all obviously took a lot of effort. It's obvious that a lot of effort has been put into the game. But I wish there was a movie of this game. If it were, it would be one of my favorite movies. I hope they make a movie of it too. The game is a game that distorts perceptions, and I liked this feature the most. It's so professional that we go back to the past and change everything. But as I said, it had an unhappy ending; frankly, it was as if we had never been together with our wife. Upset :(

It was an amazing game, but it wasn't for me. If you like horror games (ik this game isn't a horror game but y'know) then i think you would like this game. But I didn't like it.

The story is... unique (in a Game of Thrones/Memento sort of way... play the game and you'll know exactly what that means), but very intriguing. The voice cast is phenomenal. Anything with Willem Dafoe is great by default, but I was pleasantly surprised with James McAvoy's performance. Definitely a fun game that's frustratingly addictive until you solve it all.

If you like games where to repeat things until you figure out the "tricks" to succeed, then you'll like this game. I personally love the games I've played like this, and 12 Minutes was perfect to me.