Video Games
Interactive Thriller ‘Twelve Minutes’ Seemingly Delayed to 2021
Annapurna Interactive’s interactive thriller Twelve Mintues has been off the radar for quite some time. Only now has developer Luis Antonio provided something of an update for the title (though not officially) in the form of a release date change to 2021 on the game’s Steam page.
Twelve Minutes, which has been in development for over five years now, is a narrative-driven thriller that borrows from thrillers like Memento, Rear Window and the “dream-like tension” of The Shining that follows the final twelve minutes of a couple’s life.
Playing as the husband, you live with your pregnant wife who is accused by a police officer for killing her own father years prior. After the officer accidentally shoots your wife in an attempt to arrest her, you are beaten to death… only to find yourself immediately returned to the exact moment you opened the front door.
What follows is you having to experience those same twelve minutes in a loop, where you must now search for clues to solve this mystery in those twelve minutes.
Twelve Minutes is set to be released on PC, Xbox Series, and Xbox One.
While not quite Snakes on a Plane or Red Eye, co-developers Liquid Static Studio and Snapping Turtle have something darker in mind with their upcoming job-sim horror game, Night Plane. Coming to Steam later this year, the game has you doing the expected work as a flight attendant, but with the added bonus of trying to find demons hiding amongst the passengers.
It’s 1999, and it’s your first day on the job. You must do the usual things as a flight attendant: welcoming passengers aboard, check tickets, and attend to their needs. However, shape-shifting entities may attempt to come aboard disguised as humans. So, your additional job in Night Plane is to question passengers, and find a way to remove any unauthorized non-human visitors from the plane.
That also leads to assisting passengers in unorthodox ways inside the plane, outside the plane, and in places not listed in your training manual. To make things even more complicated, you’ll need to make tough decisions with irreversible consequences. Naturally, the company will not be held accountable for any mistakes you make. You live with them.
Oh, and seeing as this is a plane, you may encounter some turbulence while in flight, along with power failures, lightning strikes and more. All of which, including your decisions, will lead to one of the multiple endings in Night Plane.
If you wish to get in on the fun prior to the game’s release, you can sign up for the playtest via the Steam page.