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Twelve Minutes

Luis Antonio · Annapurna Interactive

Quick read

Twelve Minutes keeps you in one apartment with three people. Each loop lasts about ten minutes, and what you learn is the only progress.

What kind of game is it?

A top-down point-and-click thriller confined to three rooms. A husband comes home, a policeman arrives, the loop restarts. Progress is a sentence you can now say, an object you know is in the drawer, a door you know to lock — every solution is information, and the space itself never grows.

Who is it for?

For players who chase one apartment, ten minutes, and the next thing they say.

How it plays

Loop: Exploring a map
Sessions: Short sessions
Progression: Runs that reset
Players: Single-player
Structure: Systemic
Tone: Tense · Accessible

Game DNA

What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.

Progression35
Estimate
Story82
Estimate
Social18
Estimate

Key Steam facts

Steam store figures, checked 17 Sept 2026.

Release

released

2021-08-19

Review score

73%

Checked 17 Sept 2026.

Steam positive percent.

Review count

8,109

Checked 17 Sept 2026.

Store price

€23.79

Checked 17 Sept 2026.

Languages

Demo

Early Access

Players

Single-player

How many people play Twelve Minutes?

Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.

Estimated copies

200k – 450k

Steam reviews × 25 to 55. For a free game: players, not sales.

All-time peak players

4,996

Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.

Average players, Aug 2026

Peak that month: 67.

Median playtime

6 h

Half of 300 recent reviewers played 4.5–9.1 h. 4% under 2 h.

Players over time

Sept 2023Aug 2026

Where the players are

Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.

English39%
Russian13%
Spanish (Spain)8%
Simplified Chinese7%
Portuguese (Brazil)7%
Turkish7%

Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026

What makes it different?

Because the apartment cannot expand, the only variable is what you say, and a wrong guess costs the full ten minutes with no shortcut.

Core mechanics

How it scores

The fantasy: Narrative and Horror tension. Our scores out of 100, separate from Steam reviews.

Mechanical depthEstimate

40 / 100

Strategy depthEstimate

38 / 100

Run varianceEstimate

8 / 100

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Genre / subgenre

Steam genre: Adventure / Indie.

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Sources

Store price checked 17 Sept 2026.

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