12 Minutes
12 Minutes is an Adventure, Simulation, and Single-player video game developed by Annapurna Interactive Entertainment for Windows. It takes place in a small apartment having two people, and the player has to play the game for the 12-minute cycle and solve a mystery. While solving the puzzle and roaming around the apartment, the player views the environment from a top-down perspective.
A man and his wife are living in an apartment where the player controls the husband and can perform various actions. The man has to come to know that his wife is pregnant, but a police officer arrives and accuses the wife of murdering his father. The player has to take action to prevent her arrest or find evidence of her innocence in 12 minutes.
If the player gets failed, the game restarts. The game has multiple outcomes, and it all depends on the collected information about the lady’s suspect. Join the adventure, collect shreds of evidence, struggle to make her innocence, and repeatedly play to bring the truth to light.
#1 The Stanley Parable
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.
#2 Proteus
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#3 Thirty Flights of Loving
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.
#4 Kairo
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.