Games Like Twelve Minutes

The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.

Why similar: Time Travel 49.3% ★, Mystery 19%, Story Rich 8.8%, Adventure 6.2%, Great Soundtrack 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant time-loop mystery where you must solve a social puzzle within a trapped Roman city.

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Mystery 29.4%, Story Rich 15%, Puzzle 13.6%, Great Soundtrack 11.8%, Adventure 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a masterfully designed time loop where knowledge is the only currency that allows you to progress.

The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...

Why similar: Time Travel 26.3% ★, Time Manipulation 24.1% ★, Mystery 13.6%, Puzzle 8.9%, Sexual Content 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A masquerade ball time-loop puzzle game that requires you to observe and intervene to prevent murders.

Three Minutes To Eight is a mind bending pixel art adventure. A gaming experience threading the edge of consciousness, where everything is possible and yet remains elusive. Players will find themselves in ███ ██ █ ▓ ▒ ░ ¿⊕ξד¶¶¶ Error 0x80070570.

Why similar: Time Travel 36.2% ★, Mystery 18.6%, Point & Click 14.9%, Story Rich 9.4%, Puzzle 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art mystery game centered on a time loop that forces you to find ways to survive past the eight-minute mark.

Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover.

Why similar: Time Travel 37.3% ★, Point & Click 12.4%, Time Manipulation 10.7% ★, Adventure 9.8%, Story Rich 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A time-looping narrative adventure set in Hamlet's world where your choices drastically alter the timeline.

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

Why similar: Time Travel 25.7% ★, Time Manipulation 21.9% ★, Narrative 12.1% ★, Mystery 10.4%, Thriller 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative puzzle game where you manipulate time to change the outcome of events in a house fire.

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Mystery 37.9%, Puzzle 17.5%, Story Rich 13.8%, Great Soundtrack 7.5%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A deduction-heavy mystery game that relies on piecing together fragmented events to solve a larger narrative puzzle.

Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.

Why similar: Point & Click 25.9%, Drama 22.9%, Puzzle 18.5%, Story Rich 17.1%, Adventure 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A non-linear mystery that uses fragmented film clips to uncover a dark, hidden story.

Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.

Why similar: Thriller 20.6%, Mystery 19.4%, Point & Click 13.5%, Drama 9.8%, Story Rich 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: An investigative thriller that requires you to watch and cross-reference video clips to solve a mystery.

A deep, interactive adventure about love and loss, beautifully depicted and offering an intense cinematic experience. What would you do to save the one you love?

Why similar: Time Travel 28.2% ★, Story Rich 15.4%, Drama 14.5%, Adventure 9.8%, Great Soundtrack 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: An emotional narrative puzzle game about trying to change the past to prevent a tragic accident.

Minit is a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time.

Why similar: Puzzle 27.8%, Adventure 23.3%, Great Soundtrack 18.7%, Indie 17.4%, Singleplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A clever adventure game where you only have sixty seconds to complete tasks before the loop resets.

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

Why similar: Story Rich 26.2%, Mystery 24.7%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Drama 8.1%, Great Soundtrack 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven exploration of a family's history that excels at environmental storytelling and mystery.

DEATHLOOP is a next-gen FPS from Arkane Lyon, the award-winning studio behind Dishonored. In DEATHLOOP, two rival assassins are trapped in a mysterious timeloop on the island of Blackreef, doomed to repeat the same day for eternity.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 54.8% ★, Story Rich 12.6%, Violent 10.4%, Gore 6.5%, Adventure 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes action game that utilizes a time loop to let players master enemy patterns and environmental secrets.

Explore the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong, the character's lives depend on the choices you make.

Why similar: Mystery 25.4%, Thriller 23.2%, Story Rich 17.5%, Violent 11.4%, Sexual Content 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic interactive drama where every choice you make ripples through the lives of the characters.

The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...

Why similar: Time Travel 53.5% ★, Mystery 20%, Story Rich 11.5%, Adventure 5.7%, Atmospheric 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A social deduction game that uses a time-loop mechanic to uncover the truth behind a space station's infection.

Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!

Why similar: Story Rich 39.6%, Adventure 23.5%, Atmospheric 17.5%, Exploration 11.5%, Singleplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A procedural narrative adventure where your choices determine your path and the fate of the world.

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

Why similar: Mystery 21.9%, Thriller 17.2%, Narrative 14.9% ★, Point & Click 14.4%, Puzzle 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A detective game that focuses on piecing together the truth behind gruesome scenes through careful observation.

Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

Why similar: Mystery 23.8%, Puzzle 22.3%, Adventure 17.6%, Atmospheric 13.4%, Exploration 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric adventure game that excels at environmental storytelling within a mysterious, decaying world.

Maquette is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.

Why similar: Puzzle 18.5%, Narrative 15.4% ★, Mystery 14%, Adventure 12.1%, Drama 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A recursive puzzle game that plays with perspective and scale to create a unique narrative experience.

In the wake of catastrophe find the means to make your family whole again.

Why similar: Narrative 30.8% ★, Puzzle 16.5%, Story Rich 15.6%, Adventure 9.3%, Atmospheric 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic, atmospheric adventure that tells a wordless story of survival and mystery.

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

Why similar: Story Rich 26.5%, Point & Click 20.9%, Great Soundtrack 17%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Adventure 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk narrative game that focuses on choices and their consequences within a tense, mystery-filled plot.

Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.

Why similar: Mystery 33.3%, Point & Click 28.3%, Story Rich 18.5%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Exploration 7%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world investigation game that encourages you to gather evidence and solve a complex murder mystery.

Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

Why similar: Thriller 35.3%, Puzzle 29.6%, Story Rich 16.2%, Adventure 8.6%, Exploration 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal puzzle game that challenges your perception of reality through forced perspective mechanics.

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Narrative 49.1% ★, Story Rich 19.5%, Adventure 8.9%, Atmospheric 8.2%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-driven narrative RPG that captures the feeling of being trapped in a high-stakes, claustrophobic environment.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Why similar: Story Rich 32.9%, Point & Click 26%, Sexual Content 9.4%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Adventure 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, narrative-heavy mystery that focuses on internal dialogue and investigation.

Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop. Try to save yourself and a small town from destruction from a meteorite. Solve intuitive puzzles, interact with the people of the town, and discover the secrets of the town. Discover the 15 different endings!

Why similar: Time Travel 48.2% ★, Mystery 17.5%, Time Manipulation 11.3% ★, Puzzle 9.4%, Adventure 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A short, indie time-travel adventure that focuses on puzzle-solving and narrative discovery.

A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.6% ★, Thriller 19.8%, Mystery 18%, Point & Click 16.4%, Story Rich 10%

Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.

Why similar: Puzzle 27.9%, Point & Click 27.2%, Story Rich 21.8%, Indie 9%, Atmospheric 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A meditative narrative game that tells a life story entirely through the objects you unpack.

Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!

Why similar: Point & Click 29.8%, Mystery 16.6%, Great Soundtrack 12.5%, Puzzle 11.9%, Story Rich 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: An investigative simulation game that tasks you with scouring a surreal 90s internet for clues.

Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.

Why similar: Time Travel 30.3% ★, Narrative 17.8% ★, Mystery 11.9%, Point & Click 11.7%, Drama 8.7%

Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.

Why similar: Point & Click 97.2%, Mystery 1.2%, Adventure 0.6%, Story Rich 0.3%, Puzzle 0.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style point-and-click mystery that focuses on uncovering dark secrets in a small town.

A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise.

Why similar: Narrative 29.7% ★, Mystery 22.8%, Story Rich 15.3%, Top-Down 14.4%, Adventure 8%

Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.

Why similar: Time Travel 35.4% ★, Mystery 19.6%, Thriller 15.7%, Point & Click 9.2%, Story Rich 7.6%

Trapped in a terrifying death-loop, surgeon Cole Mason is kidnapped and brought to an underwater facility, forced to operate on a patient to extract an evolving parasitic horror. Dead Reset is a blood-soaked interactive horror, where each death brings you closer to the truth.

Why similar: Mystery 27.7%, Drama 21.7%, Violent 18.6%, Story Rich 16.6%, Adventure 7.9%

Last Stop is a single-player third-person adventure set in present day London, where you play as three separate characters whose worlds collide in the midst of a supernatural crisis.

Why similar: Adventure 16.1%, Mystery 15.5%, Narrative 13.8% ★, Story Rich 12.9%, Indie 11%

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.

Why similar: Mystery 32.9%, Story Rich 23.4%, Adventure 12.3%, Exploration 9.9%, Singleplayer 9.1%

In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies in this unique temporal adventure. Will you succeed in saving time?

Why similar: Time Travel 40.1% ★, Mystery 17%, Puzzle 13.8%, Top-Down 11.9%, Exploration 4.5%

Set during a pandemic lockdown in France, The World After is a FMV adventure game experience that tells the story of a man who tries to uncover the truth behind his strange nightmares and the mystery of the village he's living in.

Why similar: Time Travel 30% ★, Time Manipulation 23.2% ★, Mystery 13.6%, Point & Click 12.6%, Puzzle 5.2%

Play as a witch living in secret among villagers in this hand-drawn narrative puzzle adventure. An attempt to change fate traps her in a time loop. Help the witch and her cat escape without getting caught by the inquisition. Your choices shape the outcome.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.2% ★, Time Travel 20.1% ★, Narrative 16.5% ★, Point & Click 12.3%, Puzzle 9.1%

Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.

Why similar: Puzzle 34.6%, Story Rich 19%, Adventure 15.4%, Atmospheric 13.2%, Exploration 9.9%

Trapped and isolated in the abandoned town of Little Hope, 4 college students and their teacher must escape the nightmarish apparitions that relentlessly pursue them through an impenetrable fog.

Why similar: Mystery 34.5%, Story Rich 27.2%, Drama 25%, Violent 9.6%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.

Why similar: Thriller 24.8%, Mystery 24.2%, Drama 15.3%, Story Rich 11.6%, Adventure 6.9%

Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle 41.1%, Top-Down 21.8%, Exploration 16%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Indie 7.2%

Sheriff James Cooper is slowly bleeding to death in an unfamiliar hospital. But the moment his life ends, everything starts over. He has fifteen minutes to break this endless cycle, uncover the truth, and find a way out before it's too late.

Why similar: Puzzle 28.1%, Story Rich 27.8%, Adventure 17.1%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Exploration 7.9%

A New Beginning is a cinematic adventure-thriller done graphic novel-style.

Why similar: Point & Click 45.1%, Adventure 18.6%, Time Travel 17.9% ★, Puzzle 6.9%, Indie 4.8%

The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.

Why similar: Time Travel 43.2% ★, Mystery 11.4%, Adventure 10%, Puzzle 8%, Indie 7.5%

An interactive thriller about a group of friends haunted by the memories of their past while being hunted by a relentless killer. From The Game Grumps (Dream Daddy)

Why similar: Time Manipulation 19.6% ★, Narrative 14.3% ★, Thriller 10.8%, Mystery 9.8%, Point & Click 9.1%

A group of documentary film makers receive a mysterious call inviting them to a modern-day replica of serial killer H.H. Holmes ‘Murder Castle’. But on arrival they soon discover they’re being watched, and even manipulated, and suddenly there is much more at stake than just their ratings…

Why similar: Mystery 32.3%, Drama 24.8%, Story Rich 24.5%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Adventure 8.8%

It’s the new game of Through Abandoned series, classical point and click game. You try to find your twin-brother who disappeared in a huge and mysterious place called Abandoned.

Why similar: Time Travel 30.6% ★, Point & Click 15.2%, Mystery 11.6%, Puzzle 10.1%, Drama 8.3%

At the close of the Iraq War, Special Forces hunting for weapons of mass destruction unearth something far deadlier – a buried Sumerian temple containing a nest of unearthly creatures. To survive the night below, they must forge a brotherhood with their enemies from the world above.

Why similar: Mystery 41.9%, Story Rich 29%, Adventure 13%, Atmospheric 12%, 3D 4.1%

Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.

Why similar: Mystery 29.2%, Puzzle 25.6%, Story Rich 21.6%, Adventure 8.2%, Exploration 7%

Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

Why similar: Narrative 48.2% ★, Story Rich 17.3%, Mystery 11.9%, Drama 9.3%, Indie 5.9%

There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!

Why similar: Point & Click 31.4%, Puzzle 21.8%, Story Rich 16.2%, Adventure 11.1%, Indie 9.2%

The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.

Why similar: Story Rich 27.3%, Adventure 22.1%, Violent 19%, Gore 14.6%, Atmospheric 7.4%

ECHOPLEX is a time-bending puzzle platformer with a full-motion video story. Trapped in a mysterious looping simulation, you are followed by an “Echo” -- a duplicate of yourself who repeats everything you do.

Why similar: Puzzle 22.8%, Story Rich 18.8%, Great Soundtrack 17.2%, Indie 15.5%, Adventure 14.1%

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

Why similar: Puzzle 36.3%, Mystery 35.2%, Exploration 12.9%, Atmospheric 8.9%, 3D 6.8%

Enjoy an adventurous vacation to a 1960's parallel universe! A Sci-Fi-Mystery Adventure Game with handmade scenery.

Why similar: Point & Click 26.9%, Adventure 17.2%, Time Travel 14.7% ★, Story Rich 9.4%, Puzzle 9.2%

A time-bending puzzle game about working with - and against - your past selves. Subvert the rules of time travel, dodge paradoxes, and find a way to escape the loop.

Why similar: Time Travel 46.1% ★, Time Manipulation 27.8% ★, Puzzle 10.5%, Top-Down 6.7%, Indie 4%

Storyteller is an award-winning puzzle game about building stories. Start with a title, settings and characters and create a story that fits the story’s description. Play with stories of love, intrigue, crime, monsters, betrayal, and more!

Why similar: Point & Click 33.1%, Puzzle 28.2%, Mystery 24.9%, Adventure 9.7%, Singleplayer 4%