#12 minutes hints how to#

12 Minutes reaches a really interesting play space once you overcome its first initial puzzle.' So you have to ask, 'Oh what should I do in this situation?' And then you have your own interpretation of your actions and what everyone is saying. 'Cause at that point, the play space is bigger-you don't have an immediate goal. And that's when things open up a lot more-that's when things get interesting.

#12 minutes hints how to#

After a while you'll be able to control this guy he's no longer an issue because you know how to handle him. 'The beginning of the game is designed to make you move-there's a guy coming in every three to four minutes that you have to overcome,' Antonio said. But, again, the cop comes in and kills you only within the first third of the 12 minute loop-there's a good eight to nine minutes of stuff to see after surviving your murder, with more mysteries to uncover and problems to solve. And I did feel like, had I been given an hour as opposed to 20 minutes, I could have figured it out. But once you know your element, everything you plan should always work out.'Īntonio added that 12 Minutes is designed for you to figure out how to overcome the cop relatively quickly. So, like, you cannot drag the couch to block the door because you cannot pick up the couch. Once you know everything in the apartment-which is not that much, it's very clean in terms of the items you can use-in theory, everything you can plan should work out. 'You can pick up the mug, go to the sink, drag the sleeping pills to the mug, and know what will happen. 'All of the interactive objects in the apartment-you know what they do,' Antonio said. There's actually not all that much you can do the trick is figuring out what you should do and in what order. Similar to other adventure games, 12 Minutes is a lot of finding the right item for the right job, but those first few minutes didn't feel overwhelming. But with every attempt, I found new ways to try and save myself-and I probably would have sat there for hours continuing to experiment if I hadn't been stopped. Directly attacking the cop with a kitchen knife really didn't work. Trying to convince my wife that I was stuck in a time loop and that we shouldn't open the door for the cop didn't work. To overcome the cop, I was going to have to figure out how to either stop him from coming into the apartment or deal with him when he did. Not believing him, I did try to leave-just to see the loop reset. So the loop is 12 minutes long, you're just being killed before the loop wraps up.'Īntonio confirmed that the entire game takes place in the apartment. So it's like if Bill Murray was dying at the start of Groundhog Day over and over again and never managed to figure out that he had 24 hours before each reset. 'Eventually, you're able to overcome the cop and you can actually live until the end of the 12 minutes. 'What you're seeing is just the opening of the game,' Antonio told me.

And that's just the first problem you have to overcome in the loop. So, if you're going to figure out why a cop thinks your wife killed her father-she claims he died of a heart attack if you press her about it-and whether she actually did, you'll first have to prevent your own murder. From there, you become trapped in a 12-minute time loop, where you know the cop is going to come in and murder you just over three minutes into the loop. Suddenly, the husband wakes up back at the moment when he first walked through the door. When the husband tries to resist, the cop strangles and kills him. The cop then ties the couple up so that he can interrogate them. However, the cop then accuses the wife of murder, insisting that the wife killed her father years prior. Suddenly, a man claiming to be a cop knocks on the door, which your wife answers. If you're unfamiliar, 12 Minutes sees you play as a husband who comes home to his apartment, where his wife reveals they're going to have a baby. It tickles the logic-based part of my brain that finds enjoyment in figuring out puzzles. 12 Minutes opens with an intriguing mystery to solve, and to even begin solving it, you have to first overcome a seemingly insurmountable obstacle. I didn't get much time with 12 Minutes but even in the short preview I had, the game managed to get its hooks deep in me. Not gonna lie-I leapt at the chance to get hands-on with 12 Minutes, an upcoming time loop-based adventure game published by Annapurna Interactive that I've had my eye on for a while.