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 48% ★, Mystery 18.4%, Story Rich 8.5%, Adventure 6%, Great Soundtrack 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Twelve Minutes, this game centers on a time loop mechanic where players must gather information across repeated cycles to solve a complex mystery.

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 29.1%, Story Rich 14.8%, Puzzle 13.8%, Great Soundtrack 12.4%, Adventure 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title is the gold standard for time-loop exploration, tasking players with uncovering the secrets of a solar system before time resets.

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 24.2% ★, Mystery 13.6%, Puzzle 9%, Sexual Content 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a repeating time loop within a mansion, requiring players to observe and intervene to prevent murders, much like the loop in Twelve Minutes.

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Mystery 37.6%, Puzzle 17.6%, Story Rich 13.8%, Great Soundtrack 7.8%, Atmospheric 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant detective game that focuses on piecing together a narrative through observation and deduction, mirroring the investigative feel of Twelve Minutes.

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 35.5% ★, Mystery 18.1%, Point & Click 14.5%, Story Rich 9.2%, Puzzle 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven mystery game that utilizes a time-loop mechanic where the protagonist must avoid an inevitable death within a short window.

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

Why similar: Time Travel 25.3% ★, Time Manipulation 21.5% ★, Narrative 11.7% ★, Mystery 10.3%, Thriller 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on manipulating time to change the outcomes of past events, offering a similar puzzle-solving approach to narrative consequences.

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 22.2%, Mystery 21.1%, Point & Click 14.7%, Story Rich 10.3%, Puzzle 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: An FMV-based investigation game that requires you to sift through video clips to piece together a non-linear narrative, similar to the detective work in Twelve Minutes.

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 53.7% ★, Mystery 20%, Story Rich 11.4%, Adventure 5.7%, Atmospheric 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of social deduction and time loops that forces you to repeat scenarios to uncover the truth behind a mysterious threat.

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

Why similar: Puzzle 27.8%, Adventure 23.2%, Great Soundtrack 19.4%, Indie 17.1%, Singleplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist adventure where you only have 60 seconds to act before the loop resets, perfectly capturing the urgency found in Twelve Minutes.

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 28.4%, Mystery 26.8%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Great Soundtrack 8.9%, Adventure 7%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in environmental storytelling that explores family secrets through short, impactful narrative segments.

Late Shift is a high stakes FMV crime thriller. Forced into a brutal London heist, your choices matter in this interactive cinematic experience with adaptable storylines that lead to one of seven conclusions. Your decisions are you.

Why similar: Story Rich 27.8%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Adventure 13.3%, Thriller 11.5%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: An interactive cinematic thriller where your choices significantly impact the outcome, mirroring the high-stakes decision-making of Twelve Minutes.

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 28.3%, Story Rich 20.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Adventure 10.7%, Exploration 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative game that plays with player choice and repetition, offering a surreal experience similar to the loop-based nature of Twelve Minutes.

A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.

Why similar: Point & Click 36.8%, Puzzle 27.7%, Story Rich 21%, Exploration 9.5%, Singleplayer 5%

Why You'll Like It: This detective game relies on searching through a database of video clips to solve a mystery, emphasizing the same non-linear storytelling style.

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 21.4%, Thriller 16.7%, Narrative 14.5% ★, Point & Click 14.2%, Puzzle 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A detective game that requires intense observation and logic to solve complex mysteries, rewarding the same analytical mindset as Twelve Minutes.

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 38.4% ★, Point & Click 12.7%, Time Manipulation 11% ★, Adventure 10.1%, Story Rich 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A time-loop adventure set in Hamlet's world where you must change the future by gathering information across repeated cycles.

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 31.7% ★, Story Rich 17.2%, Adventure 11%, Great Soundtrack 10.8%, Atmospheric 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: An emotional puzzle game about changing the past to prevent a tragedy, sharing the time-manipulation and narrative-heavy themes of the seed game.

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

Why similar: Story Rich 35.1%, Adventure 20.9%, Atmospheric 15.4%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Exploration 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A procedural narrative adventure where your choices shape the world and the story, offering high replayability.

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 32.7% ★, Narrative 18.8% ★, Mystery 12.8%, Point & Click 12.5%, Story Rich 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric narrative game that explores psychological themes and character interactions within a confined setting.

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 23.9%, Thriller 21.7%, Story Rich 16.6%, Violent 10.8%, Sexual Content 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-driven interactive drama that focuses on the consequences of your decisions, similar to the branching paths in Twelve Minutes.

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 31.5%, Point & Click 26.9%, Story Rich 17.5%, Atmospheric 8.3%, Exploration 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world investigation game that allows you to solve a mystery at your own pace, focusing on gathering evidence and making accusations.

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

Why similar: Narrative 30.5% ★, Puzzle 16.7%, Story Rich 15.6%, Adventure 9.4%, Atmospheric 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic adventure that relies on environmental storytelling and atmospheric tension to convey its narrative.

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 54.6% ★, Story Rich 12.7%, Violent 10.4%, Gore 6.6%, Adventure 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A high-octane thriller that utilizes a time-loop mechanic to allow players to learn enemy patterns and master the environment over multiple runs.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Point & Click 34.4%, Indie 16.6%, Puzzle 14.5%, Story Rich 12.4%, Great Soundtrack 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: While a different genre, it captures the intense, confined, and high-pressure decision-making environment that defines the experience of Twelve Minutes.

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 48.9% ★, Story Rich 19.7%, Adventure 9%, Atmospheric 8.3%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy RPG that emphasizes high-stakes choices and survival within a confined, atmospheric space.

A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.

Why similar: Mystery 35.6%, Puzzle 20.3%, Violent 18.7%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Adventure 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down atmospheric horror game that features complex puzzles and a deep, mysterious narrative.

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 27.6%, Mystery 27%, Story Rich 12.9%, Adventure 7.8%, Atmospheric 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person thriller set in a confined location that focuses on uncovering a dark mystery through exploration.

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 30%, Point & Click 23.9%, Sexual Content 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: An incredibly deep investigative RPG that focuses on dialogue and internal narrative, perfect for those who enjoy the story-rich aspect of Twelve Minutes.

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Why similar: Story Rich 34.9%, Puzzle 30.9%, Point & Click 25%, Adventure 5.9%, 3D 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative game that blends card mechanics with escape-room style puzzles and a dark, mysterious atmosphere.

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 27.8%, Violent 18.8%, Story Rich 16.8%, Point & Click 16.3%, Adventure 8.1%

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 29.5% ★, Mystery 22.8%, Story Rich 15.3%, Top-Down 14.4%, Adventure 8.1%

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 29.6%, Mystery 16.5%, Great Soundtrack 12.8%, Puzzle 11.9%, Story Rich 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: An investigation game that requires you to explore a unique digital environment to uncover secrets and solve mysteries.

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 19.6%, Mystery 18.1%, Point & Click 16.5%, Story Rich 10%

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 23.7%, Puzzle 22.4%, Adventure 17.7%, Atmospheric 13.3%, Exploration 9.1%

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 34.7% ★, Mystery 19.1%, Thriller 15.2%, Point & Click 8.9%, Story Rich 7.4%

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 17.4%, Mystery 16.6%, Narrative 14.7% ★, Story Rich 13.9%, Indie 11.8%

A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes. A hand-drawn noir mystery set in 1937 Rio de Janeiro, where every suspect has a life, a schedule, and something to hide.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 25.9% ★, Time Travel 25.8% ★, Mystery 12%, Point & Click 9.9%, Puzzle 6.8%

Causal Loop is a narrative puzzler that blends mind-bending mechanics with a rich sci-fi story about time, consequence, and survival. Solve intricate puzzles by using the signature “echo” mechanic to record, replay, and interact with up to three versions of your past self. Can you break the loop?

Why similar: Time Manipulation 29% ★, Mystery 26.2%, Puzzle 12.8%, Story Rich 11.2%, Adventure 6.6%

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 25.7% ★, Time Travel 19.8% ★, Narrative 16% ★, Point & Click 12.1%, Puzzle 9%

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 40.2% ★, Mystery 16.9%, Puzzle 13.9%, Top-Down 11.9%, Exploration 4.5%

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 48.3% ★, Mystery 17.3%, Time Manipulation 11.3% ★, Puzzle 9.4%, Adventure 6.4%

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 24.5%, Point & Click 19.5%, Great Soundtrack 16.5%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Adventure 7.3%

Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?

Why similar: Mystery 23.3%, Time Travel 15.3% ★, Puzzle 15.2%, Story Rich 13.6%, Point & Click 8.2%

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 28.5%, Story Rich 27.8%, Adventure 17.1%, Atmospheric 11%, Exploration 7.8%

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 30.1% ★, Time Manipulation 23.2% ★, Mystery 13.5%, Point & Click 12.6%, Puzzle 5.3%

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 52.1% ★, Story Rich 19.1%, Mystery 12.9%, Indie 6.5%, Adventure 5.4%

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 34.9%, Puzzle 30.1%, Story Rich 16.3%, Adventure 8.6%, Exploration 5.4%

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 33.5%, Puzzle 24.2%, Story Rich 22.1%, Adventure 12.4%, Exploration 7.9%

Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.

Why similar: Point & Click 25.1%, Thriller 18.5%, Story Rich 13.7%, Puzzle 10%, Indie 8%

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 20.7%, Narrative 16.8% ★, Mystery 15.4%, Adventure 13.5%, Indie 10.5%

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 46.3% ★, Time Manipulation 27.8% ★, Puzzle 10.5%, Top-Down 6.6%, Indie 4%

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 43.3% ★, Mystery 11.3%, Adventure 10%, Puzzle 8%, Indie 7.4%

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

Why similar: Point & Click 44.9%, Adventure 18.6%, Time Travel 18% ★, Puzzle 7%, Indie 4.7%

Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

Why similar: Time Travel 35.8% ★, Time Manipulation 18% ★, Story Rich 12.4%, Mystery 9%, Great Soundtrack 8.1%

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 18.6%, Great Soundtrack 17.8%, Indie 15.2%, Adventure 14%

Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 39.9% ★, Mystery 24.1%, Puzzle 11.1%, Story Rich 9.6%, Adventure 6.7%

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 34.8%, Story Rich 18.9%, Adventure 15.5%, Atmospheric 13.1%, Exploration 9.9%

Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.4%, Story Rich 22.4%, Adventure 15.2%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Exploration 8.9%

Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.

Why similar: Time Travel 43.6% ★, Mystery 15.7%, Puzzle 14.6%, Indie 6.5%, Adventure 6.4%

The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?

Why similar: Mystery 32.3%, Story Rich 14.5%, Time Travel 11.6% ★, Adventure 10.1%, Violent 8.5%