Really, it’s the middle of the movie, when Phil Connors realizes that the hell of repeating the same day over and over again also means the freedom to do whatever you want without consequences. There’s a reason why Groundhog Day is such a memorable and influential movie, and it isn’t just Bill Murray’s performance or the treacly “the secret to life is love after all” message. But, unlike the stay-at-home reality of the last year and a half, the time loop in Twelve Minutes offers the antithesis of imprisonment in the freedom it gives you to interact with the small details of your environment and change how each loop plays out.
Twelve Minutes brings that nightmare to life in the context of an interactive thriller in which you have to figure out why a man claiming to be a police officer breaks into your house to kill you and your wife-a situation that repeats itself every 12 minutes. It’s a nightmare scenario that a lot of us can relate to, although maybe not enough of us, given our current infection rate. Not only is time repeating, but so is the space in which he’s experiencing that time. Essentially, it’s about a man reliving the worst night of his life over and over and over again, trapped within the confines of a small, three-room apartment. Though development on Twelve Minutes started before the pandemic, it’s a game that feels entirely of its time.
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