History VideoGame / TwelveMinutes

** If you get shocked unconscious by the bedroom lightswitch in the first loop, your wife will find you and wake you up, since you haven't entered the loop yet.

** After finding out that [[spoiler:you are your wife's brother]], you enter another loop, allowing you to complete the requirements for the other endings, including the [[EarnYourBadEnding "Confessed"]] ending (which is the only window of opportunity for this ending).

* MindScrew: The ending. [[spoiler:You apparently flashback to when you spoke with you and your wife's father eight years ago about your relationship with her and how he doesn't approve, which results in a violent altercation that kills him. Then you find yourself back in the present, stare at the pocket watch now going in reverse, and find yourself back in that moment again... except apparently as an alternate timeline, where the two of you had a civil conversation and you either break up with her or get your memory of her wiped. Except according to your wife, you and her never met until after she tried killing dad...]]

* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler:It turns out the husband's mother, Dahlia, was the mistress of the wife's father, meaning that the couple are actually ''siblings''. The player can choose whether he'll tell his wife in the past that they're breaking up because of this or omit it, though we don't see this happen.]]

* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:If you call Bumblebee to get her to talk down her dad, then your wife and the cop will be able to have a civil conversation about why he's robbing you and the circumstances of her father's death. It seems like a happy ending, with the wife willingly giving the cop her father's pocket watch to help pay for Bumblebee's medical finances and discovering that she has a long-lost brother from her father's affair with the nanny... and then you find yourself back at the door of the apartment again, back at 12:00.]]

* MindScrew: The ending. [[spoiler:You apparently flashback to when you spoke with you and your wife's father eight years ago about your relationship with her and how he doesn't approve, which results in a violent altercation that kills him. Then you find yourself back in the present, stare at the pocket watch now going in reverse, and find yourself back in that moment again... except apparently as an alternate timeline, where the two of you had a civil conversation and you either break up with her or get the memory of murdering your father wiped from your head. Except according to your wife, you and her never met until after she tried killing dad...]]

* ButThouMust: If you give the watch to the cop, he'll strangle you anyways for no reason.

** After finding out that [[spoiler:you are your wife's brother]], you enter another loop, allowing you to complete the requirements for the [[EarnYourBadEnding "Confessed"]] ending (which is the only window of opportunity for this ending) or the "Continue" ending if you haven't done so yet.

* EarnYourBadEnding: [[spoiler:In the "Confessed" ending, you confess to your wife and the cop (after having been talked down by Bumblebee) that you are the wife's half-sibling and the murderer of your guys' father. The both of them turn their anger towards you, though the cop merely says that he'll deal with you later rather than violently attack you and the wife tells you to GetOut. This ending is only obtainable after the first confrontation with the father, by which you'd likely have either gone with the bittersweet "Alone" ending or the "Continue" ending. Additionally, only "Alone" and "Continue" roll the credits, though "Confessed" gets you an achievement.]]

** In the [[spoiler:"Alone"]] ending, if you want to go for the other ending for full completion, [[spoiler:you can find the watch in the bathroom vent again and set the minute hand back two minutes, returning you to the confrontation with the father where you can choose your ending]]. Be careful, however, as choosing the [[spoiler:"Forget" ending undoes ''all'' of your progress and the watch will revert to how it was earlier in the game.]]

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:In the secret ending, after reciting the quote from the book and making no choice about how you'll deal with you relationship with your girlfriend/sister, the dad hypnotizes you into forgetting, [[StableTimeLoop leading back to the beginning of the game]].]]

* DevelopersForesight: If you drug your wife but spend long enough talking to her in the living room, she'll collapse to the floor rather than excuse herself to the bedroom to sleep. However, if you hide in the closet when the cop breaks in, he'll still check the bedroom for the occupants, so you can still use the lightswitch trap on him.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: If you try calling [[spoiler:Bumblebee or the health insurance after knocking the cop unconscious]], you will remember the phone numbers in subsequent loops, so don't worry about having to memorize them or writing them down somewhere.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In the Alone ending, the husband agrees with his wife's father to break up with her, thus avoiding the tragedies that would've followed if he stayed with her. In the epilogue, the now-single husband finds himself in his apartment again, now completely devoid of furniture and by himself.]]
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: [[spoiler:In the Alone ending, the husband decides to break up with his current girlfriend/future wife to prevent incest and the tragedies that will come from staying together.]]

* EasterEgg: [[spoiler:In the Alone ending's empty apartment, you can find the pocketwatch in its old hiding place in the bathroom's vent, but its minute hand is completely broken. If you manually move the minute hand to 2 minutes before 12 you can go back to the confrontation with the father and undo the ending.]]

* SequenceBreaking: Averted. Even if the player knows something already before the husband discovered it, [[YouShouldntKnowThisAlready the husband won't have the dialogue option to bring it up]]. For example, if you didn't go through the normal progression of having dessert with your wife and her giving you the present of baby clothes (where it is revealed that the baby will be named after your late mother, Dahlia), [[spoiler:the husband won't be able to ask for the name of the nanny from the restrained cop.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Eating dessert without your wife, [[spoiler:opening the pocket watch vent in her view]], or talking to her about bizarre and sensitive subjects without convincing her of your case will upset her. At best, she'll refuse to do anything you ask him to and storms into her room, and at worst, she'll leave the apartment and run into the cop early.

* ClearMyName: [[spoiler:The Polaroid on the fridge proves that the wife wasn't anywhere near her father at the time he died, so she couldn't have killed him.]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: If you use the knife on your wife, you'll kill her. The same thing will happen if you do it to the cop while he's tied up. Bonus points if you do so while he's still unconscious.
* YouLoseAtZeroTrust: Do too much to unsettle your wife [[spoiler:or if you uncover the pocketwatch within her view]] and she'll leave the apartment in tears, forcing you to confront the assailant early and probably forcing a reset when you're not able to talk him down without her help.

* EasterEgg: [[spoiler:In the Alone ending's empty apartment, you can find the pocketwatch in its old hiding place in the bathroom's vent, but its minute hand is completely broken.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In the true ending, the husband agrees with his wife's father to break up with her, thus avoiding the tragedies that would've followed if he stayed with her. In the epilogue, the now-single husband finds himself in his apartment again, now completely devoid of furniture and by himself.]]
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: [[spoiler:In the true ending, the husband decides to break up with his current girlfriend/future wife to prevent incest and the tragedies that will come from staying together.]]

* EasterEgg: [[spoiler:In the true ending's empty apartment, you can find the pocketwatch in its old hiding place in the bathroom's vent, but its minute hand is completely broken.]]

Featuring Creator/JamesMcAvoy, Creator/DaisyRidley, and Creator/WillemDafoe.

* NoNameGiven: None of the main characters are ever referred to by any name.

* PoliceAreUseless: If the husband dials 911 to have the police arrest the man the fastest time will be 15 minutes, far longer than the loop.
* PragmaticHero: To learn the right things, the husband has to do some very shady things, like drugging his pregnant wife or shooting an unarmed and restrained man.

* ClosedCircle: Any attempt to exit the apartment will end with the loop resetting and the husband to find himself at the apartment's door once again.

* PoliceAreUseless: If the husband dials 911 to have the police arrest the man the fastest time will be 15 minutes, far longer then the loop.
* PragmaticHero: To learn the right things, the husband has to do some very shady things, like drugging his pregnant wife or shooting an unarmed and restrained man.
* PressXToDie: If you use the knife on your wife, you'll kill her.

* TakeAThirdOption: How to get the very final ending. [[spoiler:By telling the father he wants to just forget the whole thing, he obliges and wipes his memory.]] To mark how third option it is the option isn't even on the tab and it is done by waiting out the dialogue which often isn't a good idea.

* OhCrap: It's possible for the husband to stress out or upset the wife enough that she will leave the apartment, where she will then encounter the cop and attempt to cooperate with him. If this happens after he proves to her that he's in a time loop and explains what the cop wants with her, she will instead gasp in horror upon meeting the cop in the apartment hallway.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In the true ending, the husband agrees with his wife's father to break up with her, thus avoiding the tragedies that would've followed if he stayed with her. In the epilogue, the now-single husband finds himself in his apartment again, now completely empty and by himself.]]

* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler:It turns out the husband's mother, Dahlia, was the mistress of the wife's father, meaning that the couple are actually ''siblings''. The player can choose whether he'll tell his wife in the past that they're breaking up because of this or omit it.]]

* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler:It turns out the husband's mother, Dahlia, was the mistress of the wife's father, meaning that the couple are actually ''siblings''.]]

''Twelve Minutes'' is a top down interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop, where every 12 minutes after he enters his apartment repeats themselves. One day as a husband returns from work to have a nice evening with his wife celebrating the news that she is pregnant a man claiming to be a police officer enters their home. When he handcuffs the two he accuses the wife of having killed her father and demands to know where his watch is. Just as the wife is about to divulge the location of the watch the husband finds himself at the entrance to the apartment just when he entered. From there he must find the truth about his wife and why the man wants the watch. Featuring Creator/JamesMcAvoy, Creator/DaisyRidley, and Creator/WillemDafoe.

* BilingualBonus: The "art" next the refrigerator is actually a message in morse code: "All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."

* ClosedCircle: Any attempt to exit the apartment will end with the loop resetting and the husband to find himself at the apartments door.

* PragmaticHero: To learn the right things the husband has to do some very shady things, like drugging his pregnant wife or shooting an unarmed and restrained man.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: If the wife gets a mug of water spiked with sleeping pills she will take it and be forced to have a nap.

''Twelve Minutes'' is a top down interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop, where every 12 minutes after he enters his apartment repeats themselves. One day as a husband returns from work to have a nice evening with his wife celebrating the news that she is pregnant a man claiming to be a police officer enters their home. When he handcuffs the two he accuses the wife of having killed her father and demands to know where his watch is. Just as the wife is about to divulge the location of the watch the husband finds himself at the entrance to the apartment just when he entered. From there he must find the truth about his wife and why the man wants the watch. Featuring ''Creator/JamesMcAvoy'', ''Creator/DaisyRidley'', and ''Creator/WillemDafoe''.

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: If the wife gets a mug of water spiked with sleeping pills she will take it and be forced to have a nap.

''Twelve Minutes'' is a top down interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. One day as a husband returns from work to have a nice evening with his wife celebrating the news that she is pregnant a man claiming to be a police officer enters their home. When he handcuffs the two he accuses the wife of having killed her father and demands to know where his watch is. Just as the wife is about to divulge the location of the watch the husband finds himself at the entrance to the apartment just when he entered. From there he must find the truth about his wife and why the man wants the watch. Featuring ''Creator/JamesMcAvoy'', ''Creator/DaisyRidley'', and ''Creator/WillemDafoe''.