When you’re utilising a tried and tested time loop technique, and promising to provide players with a narrative that is pushed along by the likes of James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley and Willem Dafoe, you’re going to be sure to be building a whole ton of hype. That was exactly the case when Annapurna Interactive and Luis Antonio first revealed Twelve Minutes to the world. Today, we get to play it.
Available to purchase and download right now on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Game Pass and PC, Twelve Minutes is the interactive thriller that many gamers have been holding out for, as they look to involve themselves in the real-time twelve minute time loop that holds it all together.
Priced at £20.99 from the Xbox Store, or playable through Xbox Game Pass on console, cloud and PC, your task in Twelve minutes will be to try and understand, and then break out of, the loop which controls your life. You see, initially the day seems to be going great guns, as you ready yourself for a romantic evening with your wife. But very soon the police break into your home, accuse you of your wife’s murder and beat you down – to death.
It’s here where the time loop kicks in, throwing you back to the moment you opened that front door, leaving you to relive the same horrors over and over again. Can you break out of it, change the outcome and stay safe?
The arrival of Twelve Minutes is one of the most hyped in recent times, and there’s good reason for it. We’ve been hands-on with Twelve Minutes and have been able to get a full review of how it plays on Xbox Series X|S out there for your reading pleasures. Give it a read and then head to the Xbox Store and grab a download – either by paying that £20.99 asking price, or taking it home through Game Pass.
Game Description:
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. What should be a romantic evening with your wife 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 TWELVE-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. TWELVE MINUTES blends the dream-like tension of THE SHINING with the claustrophobia of REAR WINDOW and the fragmented structure of MEMENTO.
