Games Like 12 Minutes

The Stanley Parable is one wonderful First-person, Action-Adventure, Interactive Fiction and Graphic video game like Gone Home. The game allows you to be “Stanley” and lets you choose between your actions either to follow the story or not to follow the story, have a choice or don’t have a choice, act as Stanley or simply don’t act as Stanley, it totally depends on you. This twisted game allows you to explore a strange world, buildings etc. and slowly find out the meanings of almost everything, solve quenching puzzles and be part of a strange strange world. With awesomely engaging story and loads of new content, amazing visual details and background music, voice over etc., and a brilliantly immersive game-play, The Stanley Parable is a wonderful game to play.

Doors is an Adventure, Puzzle, Horror, and Single-player Strategy game developed and published by Calvin Weibel. The game takes place in the breathtaking strange world where you can assume the role of the protagonist. You must traverse a mysterious world from the first-person perspective to find the bacon. The world is full of hardcore puzzles, and a variety of levels. Each level contains multiple doors, some of them leads to bacon, while other doors result in death. Explore the strange world, find out where you are, and unearth the secret behind the scenes. The gameplay is inspired by The Stanley Parable, Limbo, and the Portal series. In the beginning, you will face two different doors such as red and blue, and you must select one of them to continue the game. If you choose the correct door, you will receive bacon and need to solve puzzles to earn points, but if you select the wrong door, you will face death. Doors offer core features such as Strange Environments, different Doors, mind-bending Puzzles, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Proteus is a great Action-Adventure, Puzzle Platform and Exploration-based video game by Twisted Tree. The game takes you to an amazing dream-like world and leaves you on an island where you as the player will have to interact with objects, explore and solve some challenging puzzles in order to complete the game objectives. Proteus offers a procedurally generated game map and lets you experience traveling through the superbly designed valleys, ruins and a lot of other amazing wonders. With super fine graphics, amazing story and an immersive and engaging game-play, Proteus is one of the best Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video games.

Cylne is an immersive First-person Action-Adventure, Exploration and Puzzle-Platform video game that takes you to a surreal world based on fantastic art. Your task in the game is to select a chapter, Explore the world, built over the most puzzling enigmas and offers an environment that will make you head spin. You as the main character are required to solve that enigmas by using your brilliant puzzle solving abilities, interact and encounter the strangest ever life forms, gather up clues and solve every puzzle in the world surrounded by a Dark Halo. With six amazing chapters, amazingly designed environments, multiple environmental mechanisms to get help and solve the complex puzzles, ability to walk, fly, float and dive deep into the abyss, you’ll be able to enjoy every bit of the game. Cylne offer beautiful visuals, an addictive game-play and a marvelous environment to enjoy the game.

Mind: Path to Thalamus is a First-person, Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game that takes you to an amazing world of wonders filled up with all the surreal and fantastic elements. This mind-bending games lets you use the objects and find ways to solve some of the most enigmatic puzzles ever. In order to complete the tasks, you’ll have to go through the cycles of day and night, change the weather by modifying the fog and rain and change the surrounding environment completely and find ways to finally get out of your own mind. You must use all of your abilities and tools provided in order to escape the reality and follow the trail your mind creates. With a number of 30 amazing puzzles, fantastic environments, ability to turn day into night and night into day, great visuals and voice overs and immersive game-play, Mind: Path to Thalamus is one of the best Action-Adventure, puzzle-platform, Art and Exploration video game to play and enjoy.

Thirty Flights of Loving is a First-person Action-Adventure, Indie and Interactive-Fiction video game that offers a fun filled gameplay experience. This short story game lets you explore the world of Thirty Flights of Loving from a first-person perspective and witness an amazing combination of Exploration, Object Finding and Puzzle gaming elements altogether. You can be a gunslinger, an explorer or a normal being in the game world, interact with the objects, find clues, interact with the NPCs, eliminate criminals, wave a stick at the stray animals and enjoy being part of a mystical world where everything is puzzling and you are the one to solve that puzzles. With amazing 3D graphics, an involving story and an engaging game-play, Thirty Flights of Loving is quite fun to play and enjoy.

Q.U.B.E is a First-person Physics-based Puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Toxic Games in collaboration with Indie Fund for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Wii U, iOS and PlayStation. The game kicks off with the player waking up after some bizarre event and finds himself wearing gloves with the ability to get in contact with some special differently colored blocks fitted into the walls, ceilings, floors and stairs. Each and every block is differentiated by its specific quality. The player reaches to an unknown bunker and tries to solve bizarre puzzles by using the colored blocks. The protagonist, with the help of player arranges the blocks in different orders to solve the puzzles and when the puzzles get solved, he advances to the next bunker, solves another puzzle and the game carries on, on its course. Game-play of Q.U.B.E is quite appealing and engagingly addictive. You’ll definitely feel awesome playing this game.

Tag: The Power of Paint, developed by Tag Team and published by DigiPen is a First-person Physics-based Puzzle-Platform video game playable on PC (Microsoft Windows) with Direct X9 or 9C installed on it. The game is set in a gray-scale landscape in which the protagonist roams solving the platform puzzles. The player uses a Paint Gun to Tag and solve the puzzles. The gun is filled with 3 types of surface altering paints. The paints fired from the gun help the player jump on platforms that are built by the specific properties of the specifically colored paint. Player keeps on firing and jumping on the platforms until he reaches on a point where he mixes different colors and solves the mega puzzle by shooting a mixture of paints. When the final puzzle is solved, the player finds an opening and advances to the next level through it. Tag: The Power of Paint is an awesomely engaging game to play and enjoy. You should totally check it out.

Nighttime Visitor is an Action, First-person Perspective, Horror-Survival and Single-player video game available to play on Windows platform. The game takes place in the building and puts you in the role of the protagonist loaded with a phone. According to the story, the protagonist is being pursued by Alex, who are calling again and again to track your location where you are by the sound of your phone. Take on the role of the protagonist and survive as long as possible to score the highest points. There is no option to silent or switch off your phone. You also can call Alex to attempt and find him in a similar way. Interact with objects while exploring, and fulfill your tasks to progress through the game. You can press the tab key to put in and out your phone, press Q to answer the phone, E for ignoring the call, left click to interact with environment and ESC to pause the game. It offers a detailed environment and lets you move freely around the office and solve puzzles. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, and wonderful visuals, Nighttime Visitor is the best game to play and enjoy.

Kairo is a great First-person Exploration, Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game that offers a unique experience. The game takes you to an amazing world of Kairo and tasks you to explore it, go through a series of abandoned monuments, find out ancient machinery and solve some complex puzzles to start it up and find the true purpose of Kairo and your existence and fulfill your destiny. Kairo offers an unimaginable experience and allows you to enjoy a brilliant combination of exploration and puzzle solving elements. With a strange environment, mind boggling puzzles, amazingly attractive environment, engaging background music, coolest ever visuals, immersive game-play and Oculus Rift Support, Kairo will definitely amaze you with all the good stuff it has to offer. Do try it out.