Twelve Minutes

 Xbox Series X
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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 271 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 131 out of 271
  2. Mixed: 46 out of 271
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  1. pivez
    Nov 17, 2022
    8
    Entertining and challenging thriller adventure. The endings are satisfying to discover even if some of the puzzles are very difficult to solve.
  2. Youngmela
    Jun 27, 2022
    9
    Remarkable interpretation of endless loop in twelve minutes. Absolutely worth a try.
  3. churros
    Jan 13, 2022
    8
    Pros:
    + easy to get started
    + great voice acting
    + multiple combinations to try out
    + unique game
    + fun to be creative

    Cons:
    - easy to get stuck
    - disappointing ending
  4. Slaine13
    Sep 12, 2021
    9
    pfiou. Je viens de finir 12 minutes (je dirais un peu plus de 7h pour en voir le bout). J’ai réussi à avoir 2 fins différentes, sachant qu’il y en a certainement d’autres (et que la 2ème fin que j’ai faite, devient « définitive », c’est à dire obligé de recommencer au début, si je veux tenter une autre approche).

    Un de mes indés favoris de cette année, clairement. Il n’est jamais    pfiou. Je viens de finir 12 minutes (je dirais un peu plus de 7h pour en voir le bout). J’ai réussi à avoir 2 fins différentes, sachant qu’il y en a certainement d’autres (et que la 2ème fin que j’ai faite, devient « définitive », c’est à dire obligé de recommencer au début, si je veux tenter une autre approche).

    Un de mes indés favoris de cette année, clairement. Il n’est jamais frustrant. Ca marche au déclic. J’ai l’impression d’être coincé, et d’un coup je me dis « putain, je suis con, on peut tenter ça ». Et ça enchaîne sur une nouvelle situation, etc… On est toujours surpris de la « finalité » de nos actions et de voir qu’on peut encore pousser plus loin le jeu.
    Impossible de trop en parler sans spoiler mais je le conseille à tout le monde (du moins à tous ceux qui ne seront pas rebuté par l’aspect point and click).    … Expand
  5. Corchaump1010
    Sep 8, 2021
    10
    This game is really fun with a really good story and voice acting..lil frustrating when you get stuck but very satisfying when you figure it out ..dialogue is able to be fast-forwarded I enjoyed this game
  6. ethicsbeanie
    Aug 30, 2021
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I finished the game in one sitting. It isn't the type of game i would normally buy or play, however it's free on xbox gamepass and howlongtobeat.com suggested it was around 4 1/2 hours. That's perfect for me since i don't have a lot of free time.

    The game is mostly played from a top down view in a limited area, your flat and its 3 rooms. You're stuck in a repeating time loop, groundhog day style. Every 12 minutes or so the game resets to the moment just after you enter your flat, though death and trying to leave the flat triggers a reset at well. Since there's only 3 rooms and a limited number of items to use its pretty simple to figure out various combinations to try out and progress the story. I did get a bit stuck at the beginning since i kept trying to win by killing the cop. Eventually i manged to move things on by talking to the wife and trying none violent options. Apart from the frusting part where i didn't seem to make progress, the game was fun. It can become a grind at time. If there was an option to reload to e.g. 2 minutes earlier and try other options etc. it would have saved me a fair bit of time.

    Overall it was a fun experience. It's not a game of the year or a must play game, however it is enjoyably and short. It's worth trying out if you have a free afternoon.    … Expand
  7. Carlox26
    Aug 21, 2021
    10
    Este juego es increible, lo acabe hace unas horas con todos sus finales y no me deja de sorprender su historia y como la vas descubriendo poco a poco mediante los bucles de tiempo.
  8. GitanoUrbano
    Aug 28, 2021
    9
    Aventura grafica con toques de escape room muy divertida e interesante, una premisa de estar atrapado en el tiempo que te hace repensar como modificar el resultado final probando diferentes opciones. Graficos muy buenos con una camara en perspectiva "helicóptero ". Muy recomendado
  9. Overt
    Aug 27, 2021
    10
    La cantidad de gente frustrada y ardida por un titulo de puzzles es increíble, es bueno que de vez en cuando salgan títulos con puzzles de esta dificultad. hoy en día muchos aclaman un modo fácil en sagas tan icónicas por su dificultad en títulos souls cuando esto es su esencia. los puzzles igual tienen derecho de tener un nivel de dificultad alta sobre todo este que lo justificaLa cantidad de gente frustrada y ardida por un titulo de puzzles es increíble, es bueno que de vez en cuando salgan títulos con puzzles de esta dificultad. hoy en día muchos aclaman un modo fácil en sagas tan icónicas por su dificultad en títulos souls cuando esto es su esencia. los puzzles igual tienen derecho de tener un nivel de dificultad alta sobre todo este que lo justifica completamente en si experiencia, desarrollo y el final que es abrumadoramente bueno y fascinante. pd: se agradecen las ideas tan originales como esta, pensar que este juego hizo que Kojima se animara a volver con una nueva ip te deja bien claro que no es un juego común hoy en día y eso es todo lo que esta bien… Expand
  10. PackDGhoul
    Aug 27, 2021
    8
    O jogo em si é muito legal, recomendo que jogue, mas chega partes que você não sabe mais o que fazer e fica preso no mesmo looping varias vezes sem ter mais o que fazer.
  11. AmigaA1200
    Aug 27, 2021
    9
    Very interesting puzzle game it's a 9 out of 10 from me. It is an incredibly original idea for a loop puzzle that has many of the properties of a good story, visually not great but good, engaging dialogue between the characters. The game takes complex and interesting logical path that... (find out for yourself)
  12. TawaFiF
    Aug 26, 2021
    8
    Un très bon jeu dans l'ensemble mais qui laisse un sentiment différent entre ses deux premiers tiers et le dernier qui parait vraiment plus poussif et non intuitif.
  13. MrHorse
    Aug 26, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Perfect!!!!! In every sense of the word this game is perfect. From the suspense to the puzzles and who cares about the missing "warnings" everyone's talking about. The warning is for murder. If murdering someone is a problem for you in video games, maybe don't play video games. Bravo. Gamepass gets another winner.… Expand
  14. Aidanhi
    Aug 24, 2021
    9
    Very cool time loop single player game with an immersive story and a wild ending
  15. volga
    Aug 24, 2021
    9
    Very clever idea, remarkable game. Best game i enjoyed so far for 2021. Every adventure lover should give it a try.
  16. game_test
    Aug 24, 2021
    9
    In my opinion a great game. The idea is nice, the game is good. Some decisions seems a bit odd, but overall nice.
    A skip button or a shortcut to some points would be Great.
  17. Schwammlgott
    Aug 24, 2021
    9
    Spannendes Spiel mit guter Story und unerwarteten Wendungen, obwohl man fast immer das Gleiche macht...könnte ein paar mehr Möglichkeiten vertragen, ansonsten super! Manchmal ein bisschen frustrierend Neues rauszufinden, aber lohnt sich dabei zu bleiben
  18. ExpertOperator
    Aug 23, 2021
    9
    Es una tontería ver personas punteando con 0. Que tipo de persona hay que ser para que el juego les parezca aburrido?. Yo en la primera sentada estuve 4 horas, solo me falta el logro Mindfulness y sin lio repetiré el juego para buscar esos 80G. Demasiado intrigante, atrapa el juego este!
  19. NotACritic21
    Aug 23, 2021
    9
    Overall, this is a great game if you want to have a unique gaming experience wrapped in a mysterious story.

    This game is really more of an 8.5. The biggest praise I can give it is I was not able to put it down and finished it in one day. That is rarely the case for me. The story was interesting, with multiple twists and turns. The voice acting was very good, and the music was fantastic.    Overall, this is a great game if you want to have a unique gaming experience wrapped in a mysterious story.

    This game is really more of an 8.5. The biggest praise I can give it is I was not able to put it down and finished it in one day. That is rarely the case for me. The story was interesting, with multiple twists and turns. The voice acting was very good, and the music was fantastic. The puzzles were challenging and gave opportunities to take various paths to progress the story without being overly difficult.

    My only complaint is a few instances where I would need to go through longer repetitive sequences in order to make a tweak to the loop later on. There is a fast forward mechanic, but it could have been implemented a bit better.    … Expand
  20. Manuto
    Aug 23, 2021
    10
    Excellent game.
    A smart game made by a small team.
    It has the merit of having interested my wife in a video game, while she does not like it. That is performance.
    Very good acting, the possibilities are many. A very beautiful discovery for the end of the holidays.
  21. Esvext
    Aug 23, 2021
    8
    The game is not perfect, some dialogues and their consequences are not consistent, but the result is an excellent game. If you like games that don't consist in mashing buttons, if you like riddles and point and click games, you must play this. Scenario is also great, even if I feel like they were a bit inspired by a 2003 movie that I cannot name because if I do, I would spoil a bit...The game is not perfect, some dialogues and their consequences are not consistent, but the result is an excellent game. If you like games that don't consist in mashing buttons, if you like riddles and point and click games, you must play this. Scenario is also great, even if I feel like they were a bit inspired by a 2003 movie that I cannot name because if I do, I would spoil a bit...

    This could have been a big 3 hours long movie, or a mini TV series. Netflix, if you read me...    … Expand
  22. w1n5t0n
    Aug 23, 2021
    10
    Point and click adventure with a compelling story. It did feel repetitive once or twice but whatever that happened it was a sign that I was missing something I needed to find. But I couldn't put it down. Really great play through. I completed it in about 6 hours so definitely give it a shot on Gamepass since it'll feel like free. It's been 2 days since I finished it and I'm still thinkingPoint and click adventure with a compelling story. It did feel repetitive once or twice but whatever that happened it was a sign that I was missing something I needed to find. But I couldn't put it down. Really great play through. I completed it in about 6 hours so definitely give it a shot on Gamepass since it'll feel like free. It's been 2 days since I finished it and I'm still thinking about that ending. Hoping to see more from this writer/director soon.… Expand
  23. bollo82
    Aug 22, 2021
    10
    Pretty good game. I think it can get a bit frustrating at times but if you stick with it then it doesn’t take long to progress.
  24. Ghaithk
    Aug 22, 2021
    10
    This game is different, unique, and amazing who ever made this game is genius
  25. Opiu
    Aug 22, 2021
    10
    A simple game but with a very cool idea and matrix with incredible execution
  26. Kratbull
    Aug 22, 2021
    10
    Yo le pondría un 7-8, pero le pongo un 10 para compensar al ejército de anormales que le están cascando ceros
  27. Alonsox123
    Aug 22, 2021
    10
    Awesome game, finding ways to turn the difficultsituation in your favour, a very intertaining game. A breath of fresh air!
  28. smeghead25
    Aug 22, 2021
    9
    12 Minutes is a whodunnit style mystery involving three characters (a cop, a wife, and the husband who you play as, voiced respectively by Willem Dafoe, Daisy Ridley, and James McAvoy). Set in one small apartment containing a lounge, bathroom, bedroom and closet, you're caught in a time loop and every ten minutes you reset to just as you walked in. Within those confines, you have to12 Minutes is a whodunnit style mystery involving three characters (a cop, a wife, and the husband who you play as, voiced respectively by Willem Dafoe, Daisy Ridley, and James McAvoy). Set in one small apartment containing a lounge, bathroom, bedroom and closet, you're caught in a time loop and every ten minutes you reset to just as you walked in. Within those confines, you have to unravel the mystery by interacting with the characters and the environment.

    It is worth noting that the true ending is not executed well, and one aspect of the core mystery unfortunately makes little sense. It isn't the kind of plot hole that makes it impossible to follow the central mystery, I figured it out around halfway through. But apart from a low effort line of dialogue, it goes disappointingly unexplained.

    There are also some unfinished aspects (using a particular item on the windows and paintings results in placeholder text). And as always the case in choice-driven games, some options you might think of are not present. Notably, you can't ask your wife to go anywhere or do anything which would make sense in context. That is of course a forgivable limitation of the genre and gameplay; to enable that would require an unimaginable number of additional permutations.

    I found myself unsure how to proceed a few times, but apart from the true ending, every time I found what I needed to progress it made logical sense. Sometimes you just need to look closer, revisit things you thought you'd already exhausted, or revisit the lengths you're willing to go to. The game does a remarkable job of making you feel trapped and isolated in a hopeless cycle, so it feels immensely rewarding when you take a significant step forward and your options open up.

    I felt that the unique and satisfying way the gameplay loop of experimenting with different permutations rewards you by slowly peeling back layers of the mystery ultimately makes up for its shortcomings.

    I thoroughly recommend it. Just go in knowing that while the mystery is satisfying, after solving it, the way the game ends is not.    … Expand
  29. SuperKsaGaming
    Aug 22, 2021
    10
    This game is gream and deserves to be played
    Great story
    Great ideas
    A lot of tricks
  30. haroldnmadge
    Aug 22, 2021
    10
    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    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!    … Expand
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#59 Best Xbox Series X Game of 2021
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#15 Most Discussed Xbox Series X Game of 2021

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Metascore
72

Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 31
  3. Negative: 2 out of 31
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 17, 2022
    40
    12 minutes is a point’n’click thriller playing with a time loop theme with a great premise and introductory setting, but with a lack of interactivity and an unfortunate story. After the enthusiasm from the beginning of the game, when you will enjoy the offered possibilities of the game sandbox, frustration and disappointment will come. Even dabing with brilliant actors is not helping the game. It seems to be recorded in a hurry and without the possibility for the actors to get used to the character.
  2. Games.cz
    Oct 4, 2021
    50
    Great idea woefully executed. The story, gripping at first, soon devolves into frustrating repetition. The characters just aren’t interesting enough and the A-list actors offer what might just be the blandest performances of their careers. Spend your twelve minutes elsewhere.
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  3. 4P.de
    Sep 17, 2021
    75
    Inventive adventure thriller, that produces a lot of tense moments within the limited scenario. The solution doesn't meet expectations, though.
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