Twelve Minutes
Skip · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $24.99.
- Length
- 4.2h
- Value
- $5.95/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTS 450, 1 GB | AMD Radeon HD 5770, 1 GB. Windows only.
An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was November 2025. 49 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 61 percent. On the same math Stories Untold ($9.99, scores 49) and Sally Face - Episode One ($2.99, scores 86) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 569 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
35% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
26 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Hella good absolutely peak lots of glitches but autosave prevents any large issues
The time loop concept is cool, and figuring out what to do differently to progress was interesting. The story was alright, but it didn't really hit that hard for me. Sometimes it was a bit unclear what you were supposed to try next, which made progressing a little confusing. Overall, a solid game to play through once.
Repetitive gameplay, ♥♥♥ narrative, pretentious, controversial just for the shock value. Don't buy/play this even on deep sale. I deeply regret my time with this game.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Twelve Minutes scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1097200/twelve-minutesThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Sep 24.
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