History VideoGame / TwelveMinutes

* 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 decide to keep dating her or break up with her, which has the further choice of keeping your memory or get your memory of her wiped. Except according to your wife, you and she never met until after she tried killing her dad. And then there are his comments about getting the wife pregnant, something that only happened in the future...]]

!! ''Twelve Minutes'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* AbusiveParents: Your wife's father hit her, [[spoiler:which lead to her grabbing a gun and shooting at him.]] He also [[spoiler: violently attacks you, his son, after you refuse to break up with his daughter AKA your own half sister. This time the ensuring GunStruggle kills him.]]

* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: While the "Mindfulness" ending implies that the entire game is inside the husband's mind, we don't know anything about the state of his life in the real world. How much of his illusion is based on reality and how much is just pure fabrication? Is the couple already together or is he just learning about the truth before they start dating? Is "father" a random therapist or is he really his father?]]

* AntagonisticOffspring: The Wife's relationship with her father ended up in the gutter after her mother's death. [[spoiler:Because The Wife never forgave her father for knocking up her nanny and causing her mother's downward spiral.]] This antagonism eventually culminates in [[spoiler: The Wife shooting her father after the two get into a physical argument.]]

** [[spoiler: The Wife]] taking up so much of their mother's attention lead to [[spoiler:her father having an affair with her nanny]], which tears the whole family apart.
** [[spoiler: The birth of the husband]] kills their mother, and ultimately sets in motion the chain of events which end in [[spoiler: him killing his father and committing SurpriseIncest.]]
** [[spoiler: The Couple's baby]] only brings bad tidings, considering [[spoiler: it's the product of half-sibling incest.]]

** [[spoiler: In the "Groundhog" ending, the man chooses to stay inside the loop and plays out the same happy evening with his wife over and over again, having learned how to stop the cop from even coming. However, they have no future and the man always break down once the loop restarts.]]
** [[spoiler: In the "Mindfulness" ending, it's implied that the whole game is a hypnosis session or a dream where a man imagines different scenarios of how being with his sister would turn out. This means that none of the tragedy of the game actually occurs, although the man still has to struggle with his feeling for his sister and the game ends before we actually know whether or not he gives her up in the real world.]]

** In the "Confessed" route, [[spoiler: the husband admits the truth to the wife so he can take responsibility for his action. This reduces her to a sobbing mess by the end, but the cop will leave her alone.]]

** The baby clothes? [[spoiler: Have a name on them, which is used to get the Cop to remember the identity of the Wife's old nanny.]]

* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler: The Father in the flashback gets into a struggle with you only to fall and break his neck.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Even the murderous cop is taken aback by the idea of a son killing his father and marrying his sister.]]

** [[spoiler: There is no ending where the husband is happy. He either breaks things off with the woman he loves and ends up alone, futilely erases his memory (which just leads to him falling in love with her again), stays in the loop and lives out the same 10 minutes over and over again, or snaps out of the [[AllJustADream dream/hypnosis]] and faces the real world, whatever that may hold.]]

** Despite the game's title, the time loop is only 10 minutes long. [[spoiler: The missing two minutes are your meeting with your wife's father, and they're the key to ending the loop and the cause of the whole conflict.]]

** The "Listen" ending may be the closest the game has to this. [[spoiler: The wife takes the husband out to talk about her past, thus preventing the cop from finding them and the husband from learning the painful truth. The loop does not start in this ending.]]

* IHatePastMe: [[spoiler: Immediately after regaining his memory, the husband seems disgusted with the idea of incest and pushes the wife away, implying that even he finds his past self's obsession with his sister abhorrent. It's only after this that he can make the choice to really let her go.]]
** Notably, [[spoiler: she stops being called 'Wife' and now you identify her as 'Her', after you learn the terrible truth]].

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: PlayedStraight in the "Alone" ending. [[spoiler: The husband agrees to never be with his sister, thus preventing her from ever suffering the tragedy of their relationship.]] {{Subverted}} in the "Confessed" ending, [[spoiler: as the husband only confesses the truth after getting her pregnant and living together for 8 years. She is understandably not any happier after this.]]

* KillingInSelfDefense: [[spoiler: How the actual murder of the father happens. Unable to convince his son to stop pursuing his daughter, the father pulls a gun on the son and gets shot by it in the ensuing struggle.]]

* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler: Once the husband figures out that he's the half-brother of his wife, her name changes from 'Wife' to 'Her'.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: The Husband]] gets hit with a major one after TheReveal. [[spoiler: The next loop after he finds out the truth gets abruptly cut short thanks to him passing out from the shock and horror.]]
* MysteriousParent: [[spoiler:The Husband's]] MissingMom ends up being [[spoiler: the woman who The Wife's father cheated with...and got pregnant.]]

* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler: No matter how many times the main character has his memory wiped in the past, he will always find the wife and fall in love with her again, thus resetting the time loop. The only way to end the loop is for him to accept that things between them will never work out, or if one follows the interpretation that AllJustADream, wakes up.]]

** At the start of the game, the player can see two apartments next to the couple's one. [[spoiler: The left apartment has a baby crying in it, symbolizing what would happen if the husband chooses to withhold the truth and stay with his wife. The right apartment is noted to be empty, symbolizing what would happen if the husband stop the relationship and end up alone.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: The Wife killed her father when tensions ran high between them in the aftermath of her mother's death.]] Later loops reveal that [[spoiler: she only badly wounded him, and ran away before she could realise.]]

* SoProudOfYou: The Wife's father takes this attitude towards [[spoiler: The Husband, his son, if the Husband agrees to break up with The Wife after finding out that the two of them are half-siblings.]] Complete with tearful hug.

* StarcrossedLover: [[spoiler: The couple turns out to be brother and sister all along. The husband's attempt to avert this trope and stay with his sister anyway is what drives much of the main plot. The loop can only be broken once he realizes that things between them can never be, or [[IgnoranceIsBliss stay ignorant and forget the truth]].]]

* UnknownRelative: The turning point of the game is the reveal that [[spoiler: The Husband and Wife are [[SurpriseIncest long lost half siblings.]]]]
* 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.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: [[spoiler:If you give the watch to the cop, he'll strangle you anyways for reasons unexplained, probably out of {{Revenge}} or to LeaveNoWitnesses.]]

** While the game doesn't directly acknowledge it, there is nothing preventing you from down sitting at the table and eating cake while your wife is loudly sobbing and having a mental breakdown on the couch in the same room. The player character will even default to his cheerful dialogue on good and tasty the cake is.

* YouMonster: The wife's mother called her husband and Nanny's baby that. [[spoiler:Later, your wife calls you this again when you reveal the murder and SiblingIncest to her. There is also a great blink-and-you-miss-it moment for this is you, instead of using one of the knives, shoot the cop in the leg while interrogating him; he will call you "you're a monster..." over and over while he's slowly bleeding to death if you leave him talking for a while, foreshadowing what you did to your own father]].

* HighVoltageDeath: The bedroom light switch has faulty wiring. It will send a shock knocking out the husband or the cop if it is flipped on for the second time. However, if the wife flips the switch on for the second time, she will die from it since she's the only character who [[DoesNotLikeShoes isn't wearing shoes]] and isn't grounded from the electrical current.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: No they do not.

* ActorAllusion: One of the possible names for the nanny the cop gives is [[Creator/DaisyRidley Daisy]], Daisy, of course, being the name of the actress playing the wife.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: The Husband]] gets hit with a major one after they experience their TomatoInTheMirror moment. [[spoiler: The next loop after he finds out the truth gets abruptly cut short thanks to him passing out from the shock and horror.]]

* TomatoInTheMirror: Two in occur in quick succession, which turn the entire story on its head. [[spoiler: The Husband is actually his wife's [[SurpriseIncest long lost half brother]], and he is the one who killer his wife's father after the latter broke the news to him.]]

A husband, the playable character, returns from work to his apartment to have a nice evening with his wife. They are interrupted by the arrival of a man claiming to be a police officer. He enters their home; disaster ensues, and once it gets bad enough, the husband suddenly finds himself at the entrance to the apartment just when he entered. It becomes clear that he is stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop; as soon as ten minutes pass, he is knocked out or dies, or he attempts to leave the apartment, he's immediately rewinded back to the start of the loop, and no one but him seems wise to it. He must figure out the truths about his wife, who this police officer is and what he wants, and how he can escape this loop.

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The ventilation grids in the bedroom and living room, your wife's house keys or the flushing toilet turn out to be non-essential for solving the game]].

''Twelve Minutes'' is a [[TopDownView top-down]] interactive {{Thriller}} PointAndClickGame by Annapurna Interactive about a man stuck in a ten-minute time loop.

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The ventilation grid in the bedroom, your wife's house keys or the flushing toilet turn out to be non-essential for solving the game]].

* AllJustADream: Played With. [[spoiler:The "Mindfulness" ending implies that the events of the whole game were just fictional scenarios thought up by the husband after learning from his father that he's been dating his sister, which would explain the time loops and the MindScrew listed below.]]

'''''Twelve Minutes''''' is a [[TopDownView top-down]] interactive {{Thriller}} PointAndClickGame by Annapurna Interactive about a man stuck in a ten-minute time loop.

* YouMonster: The wife's mother called her husband and Nanny's baby that. [[spoiler:Later, your wife calls you this again when you reveal the murder and SiblingIncest to her]].

''Twelve Minutes'' is a top-down interactive thriller by Annapurna Interactive about a man trapped in a 10-minute long time loop within his apartment.

As a husband returns from work to have a nice evening with his wife, a man claiming to be a police officer enters their home, charging her with the murder of her father while also demanding to know where his watch is. Just as the wife is about to divulge the location of the watch, her 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.

* ActorAllusion: One of the possible names for the nanny the cops gives is [[Creator/DaisyRidley Daisy]], Daisy, of course, being the name of the actress playing the wife.

** In the "Confessed" route, [[spoiler: the husband admits the truth to the wife so he can take responsibility for his action. This reduces her to a sobbing mess by the end, but the cop will forever leave her alone.]]

* BlatantLies: If the husband talks about the wife's past before convincing her of the time loop, she will deny and deny everything.

* StarcrossedLover: [[spoiler: The couple turns out to be brother and sister all along. The husband's attempt to avert this trope and stay with his sister anyway is what drives much of the main plot. The loop can only be broken once he realizes that things between them can never be, or [[IgnoranceIsBliss stay ignorant and never figure out the truth]].]]

* EvenEvilHasStandard: [[spoiler: Even the murderous cop is taken aback by the idea of a son killing his father and marrying his sister.]]

* StarcrossedLover: [[spoiler: The couple turns out to be brother and sister all along. The husband's attempt to avert this trope and stay with his sister anyway is what drives much of the main plot. The loop can only be broken once he realizes that things between them can never be.]]