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This indie adventure game features a mystery and puzzle narrative. Released in 2021, it has garnered 7,948 Steam reviews with a 73% positive rating. The title was developed by luis-antonio and published by Annapurna Interactive.
Overview
Twelve Minutes is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Luis Antonio and published by Annapurna Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 7,359 player reviews, 73% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Luis Antonio with publisher Annapurna Interactive is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 353,000 to 824,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Twelve Minutes can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
7,359
Positive
73%
Steam appid
1097200
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0353K to 824K
units (median: 589K)
≈ $5.0M to $11.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_73% | 0 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 80 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Twelve Minutes at roughly 353,000 to 824,000 copies, with a median around 589,000, derived from its 7,359 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $8.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
51 observed days · window low $6.71Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-28, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.71 to $23.67. The tracked-window low was $6.71 on 2026-06-25.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Fanatical -74%$6.71 Buy
- Steam reference$24.99 Buy
- Humble Store$24.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-28 05:56 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Tags
IndieAdventureMysteryPuzzleStory RichTime TravelSingleplayerPoint & ClickTop-DownTime ManipulationThrillerDramaAtmosphericNarrativeSexual ContentViolentExplorationGore3DGreat Soundtrack
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Twelve Minutes sold?
- indielist estimates Twelve Minutes has sold between 353,232 and 824,208 units (median 588,720), derived from its 7,359 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Twelve Minutes?
- Twelve Minutes was developed by Luis Antonio and published by Annapurna Interactive.
- Who published Twelve Minutes?
- Twelve Minutes was published by Annapurna Interactive, developed by Luis Antonio. See Annapurna Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Twelve Minutes released?
- Twelve Minutes was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Twelve Minutes have on Steam?
- Twelve Minutes has 7,359 Steam reviews, of which 73% are positive.
- Is Twelve Minutes worth playing?
- Steam players rate Twelve Minutes 73% positive across 7,359 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Twelve Minutes can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Firewatch, What Remains of Edith Finch, Journey, Mouthwashing, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Luis Antonio's other releases and Annapurna Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Twelve Minutes sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Twelve Minutes page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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