Last updated on October 9th, 2025 at 05:10 pm
Twelve Minutes – Puzzle Game Review
Twelve Minutes is a Puzzle game from Netflix, Inc., first launched in 13th December 2022.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 499+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Twelve Minutes Stand Out
Available exclusively for Netflix members.
Tap and drag to escape a time-loop nightmare. This interactive thriller features the voices of James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley and Willem Dafoe.
What should be a romantic evening at home with your wife turns into a horror show when a police detective breaks in, accuses your wife of murder and beats you to death.
Then comes the reset. Suddenly, you find yourself returning to the exact moment you opened the front door. You’re stuck in a 12-minute time loop, doomed to relive the same terror again and again…
The only way to break free? Gather clues from your surroundings in real time and use your knowledge of what’s coming to change the outcome.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Twelve Minutes is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th December 2023
Recent improvements include:
We’re always working to bring you the best Netflix Games experience. In this release, we’ve made some bug fixes and performance improvements.
Download & Availability
Twelve Minutes is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Twelve Minutes on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Perfect Artwork and the actors; tbh this needs to be made into an actual theatrical movie! However It isnt as functional on iPhone.. So we swear it took us 10x longer than needed. Fingers being to wide vs a cursor or controller. Also maybe clean up the ending a bit we heard theres an option to fix the watch when youre alone in the empty apartment but we never could.. From what we hear many or most people had trouble with it. All in all it is very entertaining, so if anything at the least maybe a sequel.
Great game worth the time. Absolutely loved the story plot and ending!! This really gets you thinking and makes you pay attention to the littlest details, which we really liked. Clever gameplay, but could be a little frustrating we also like how you can skip through things you already went through in order to save time! The twists were so engaging, honestly , and we really like the message. Just a couple minor bugs sometimes when the characters moveit could look a little choppy/messy sometimes (only happened once or twice, we dunno). Another thing that bugged us a tiny bit was the fact that you couldnt turn yourself in or anything like that, after finding out it was you (who killed the father/wife), and how the healthcare line was just unavailable (we get it, though, since it wouldnt really have had an effect on the plot). But overall, OBSESSED.
Challenging and exciting. We have never had a mobile device game that Ive enjoyed more. We couldnt stop playing. Currently looking for similar games.
Amazing game us and our boyfriend kept taking turns playing and we had so much fun what a clever game never seen anything like to.
Amazing game, but we wish we could just buy this game without having to get a netflix subscription.
We wish there were more games just like this one. The plot twists and choose your own adventure aspects were riveting. Highly recommend this game.
The amount of emotions we felt while playing this and receiving the main ending, you find out so much and theres so many options its sort of heartbreaking. Literally loved this game so so much.
Great game. The conclusion was INSANE and completely shocking! It didnt even cross our mind as a possibility! Why would it, right?! We wish we could see our achievements for each loop conclusion. We guess it must be an older feature. Anyway, we would love to see more games like this one.
You know how the cop has a knife well you should update the first kill to where he gets the knife out and slit your throat.
We’re surprised this doesn’t have more traction. We love this game! The concept is so interesting, it isn’t predictable, and is engaging. We really would love more games similar to this.
Good Game Thats All we Have To Say.
This is such a good game and it has the perfect ending we loved it.
Agatha Christie would be proud. This game is a compelling concept, and its implementation is masterful. Great writing, twists, and clever game play. Its challenging, but as long as youre up for experimentation, youll have a great time. Im deeply impressed with this one. The problems that some folks had with Notification Center have been fixed.
If we have to be honest that is the hardest most challenging game Ive ever played but lucky we like a good challenge.
One of the best games we ever played.
Fascinating plot unfolds at every repeat with what seems like unlimited endings you can control. Wish controls were a bit easier (ventilation) and more dialogues can be fast forwarded (cop on phone).
This game had us hooked, big time. Loved it. Also absolutely loved the use of Tango music thorough the game from the radio to the humming and Im sure that painting on the wall is some code! Great game. Then at the very end (no spoiler here) you meet a new main character youve been waiting for but the character has the EXACT same voice and accent as the major villain had during the whole game But it is supposed to be someone else entirely. Either we didnt understand the ending at all or they botched that voiceover by repeating the talent.
Ive been looking forever for another game as good as this.. Still cant find none. Will let you know if we ever will.
Give this a shot. Its amazing honestly and one of the better mobile/app store games out there not riddled with purchases. Fire.
This game is insane. The storyline and game play is really well done and outside the box. We couldnt put it down and ended up binging the game in a weekend. We are desperately in need of more games like this.
This game is truly a mind blowing game. The stories change and the dialogue has to be precise in order to figure out the game. And the ending is amazing way different than what we had thought it was! We need more games like this one.
Okay, we’ve never written a review for an app but here we are. Y’all seriously this game is super fun and challenging. At first you’re trying to figure out what it even is but we’re telling you this game is so challenging. The storyline is beautiful, it can be really lighthearted or it can be dark and twisted and regardless of what you do it’s so many endings. Pay attention to EVERYTHING and we mean everything. What’s so fun about this game you truly only have like 10 mins to complete and yes we truly think it’s 10 mins real time because the task and everything you have to complete takes time. Don’t get discouraged because you will get stumped and the dialog is repetitive but always remember, what did you do last time that can be different this time ? Analyze every step you take because the next one will move you forward. Such an amazing game, please make more like it. We just finished it.
Good guilty great twelve minutes uhm hard.
We dont know why we cant play the game But we know the game is so wonderful.
Cool game. Played on pc. But Im not getting any sound playing thru iphone. It says headphones recommended but no sound output with them not connected.
Please add controller support form mobile.
8/10 game but needs controller support.
Great game but hard to control you move like a snail and the interaction system is absolutely abysmal but the story is amazing and overall a fun idea for a movie its a horrible game but great concept.
The story was very interesting and the concept was quite unique. However, the controls are awkward and clunky to use, and in a game where time is of the essence, it really drags down the experience. Perhaps a branching story map with the ability to go to a certain scene would be helpful to cut down on the repetition, especially when a critical item is missed and a restart is needed. Overall, an engaging storyline but gameplay is not up to par. Recommended if you have the patience to work through the controls, but one playthrough to the true ending is enough. Some tips that are not obvious: – Best played on an iPad (see others reviews on inventory control). – Pause menu gesture is 2-finger tap on screen. – Recommend looking up a spoiler-free walkthrough (unless you want to feel frustrated); there are 3 endings where you need 1 of 2 endings to get the 3rd true ending. ~ Warning: Getting the true ending will restart the whole game. Happy gaming.
Can you please allow controller support.
We really wish we knew the app costed money before downloading. Wasted bytes and 10 minutes of our time not too mention we need to rent the game more than once every month unlike other regular games that charge around 5-10$ ONCE.
Amazing game, but needs controller support.
We saw another youtuber playing this a while back (kubzscouts/jay) and it looked so fun! So when we saw it here almost 5-6 months later we were so happy.we played this game today and we had a blast.
This game was incredible. Our only complaint is that the task bar made it quite difficult at some points. However, having that said, it was amazing. We had no idea how it would end and was incredibly shocked once we got to that point.
Such a different game from the usual side runners or puzzles! But in a good way! It is dark .& twisted but that makes out exciting, if youre not into that stuff dont play this game !The story is pretty immersive from the get-go. The dialect can start to get repetitive because youre repeating the same story but you can double tap and skip through it and fast forward a lot of it as long as your character has recognized the current questions & answers .Theres so many different cool ideas going into this game. There is some small issues with picking up taking certain items, but we noticed if we hold our finger on the screen for two seconds longer and make sure Im picking up the correct thing it works just fine! Also the problem with it pulling the item bar down on IPhone is worth the IPhone! We have one & it happens all the games we play! Its not the devs fault.. We still cant figure out the ending, every time we think we finally figured it out there is more to the story! Its a unique different type of game that we really really enjoyed. Thanks developers.
We dont really leave reviews on games from our phone..let alone like games on our phone..but we really loved this one! Its so intriguing once you figure it out. We recommend writing things down so u dont forget..it took us two or three days we dont remember we finished it a few days ago. Not full days of course, just like occasional hours when Im bored..we wont lie it did piss us off a few times but then we took a break and came back later and figured it out. If youre into those shows where you like to guess who the killer is play this game. Five stars for sure.
Okay so we downloaded this game and played it it was amazing! But also we were a little not excited to download it because if you know those times where you want to download these really really good quality and fun to play games that you see other people play, for example Amanda the adventure its a really nice game seeing other people play it but some iPhone and apple iPad users who try to download it it doesnt show it just shows a bunch of knock off bad quality games of it and so thats what we were thinking when we were downloading this game but finally we got to playing and it was the real deal! While we were playing this game we couldnt really think of anything annoying or frustrating about it so good game you should really download this!!!! Have a good day.
We wanna play the game properly but the audio is so quiet even though we have it turned all the way up and adjusted it in the game settings. Every other apps audio works except this one. Please fix, not sure why this is occurring. Im on Ipad btw.
We loved the story line of the game the plot twist is so amazing and ive never seen a plot twist like that its a great game but the tap to walk is not the best. You can also interact with mostly everything in game which is also great. Overall its just a good game very mysterious and a touch of scariness in it. Definitely one of our favorite horror games.
This is an awesome game, we were inspired to play by coryxkenshin THE GOAT OF YOUTUBE.
Took incredibly long to figure out on console.. We can only assume that the app is just as good.
We gave this game onyl 4 stars Is our favorite game we love it so much but is on Netflix on iPad LIKE WHAT 12 minutes is not suppose to be on Netflix Can you please fix that or someone just like please.
This game is interesting and great puzzle game, but it has issues. First, trying to access the items on hand at the top usually means we accidentally pull down the quick access and notifications on our phone and then the game pauses. Secondly and most importantly, how do we save progress? Every time we go have to stop playing and we start at the beginning of the loop. Its a time loop itself. Have a life? Heres a loop for you.
Absolutely horrible decision to put the inventory at the top of the screen so that any time you try to take something out the iPhone scroll down menu gets activated and keeps interrupting your game. Ive died several times unnecessarily and had to start all over after significant progress because of how awful the interface is.
Its a fun game but its basically impossible to play on mobile. You can barley use the inventory because it keeps opening notifications, and you cant see what your grabbing because it doesnt tell you, when that could be fixed by just showing the name when you drag your finger but it doesnt do that. So it is fun for pc but not on mobile.
We like the graphics and dialogue. However, without the spoilers its hard to know how to progress. In fact, we dont even know what the end game is. But fun nonetheless if youre in a drunken time loop yourself.
3-stars as the game itself is a very interesting concept and the story goes pretty deep but we just didnt have the patience to see it through to the end. You have to really be willing to bang your head against the wall. And the Notification Center keeps opening when Im trying to drag objects. Really slowed things down so we had to repeat loops over and over due to those delays.
This game has potential but the inventory being located at the top of the screen is a mistake. We cant open our inventory and drag an item out without accidentally opening our notifications or opening a new screen.
But theres no sound unfortunately. Please fix.
Great game, great story, could be great on iPhone! Only problem is the notification bar is in the way of the inventory! The amount of times we’ve tried to grab an object out of our inventory bar or slide an object out of it and pull down the notification center is ridiculous! We’ve had to restart so many times and gotten delays on doing certain tasks because of it. Just move it! It’s so in the way and ruins the game. Other than than we’d love the game and would love to give a review about the entirety of the game if we could just get past the first level and not have to restart because we can’t grab an object and instead we check what time it is and what our friends send us on instagram.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.4823
- Size: 1,069.99 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes, Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: Netflix, Inc.
Last updated: 6th December 2023 | Genre: Puzzle | Developer: Netflix, Inc.