Fourth dimension loops are quite the hot gaming topic in 2021, with PlayStation 5 exclusive titles similar Returnal and Deathloop making headlines year-round. Microsoft has its own sectional time loop game: the interactive thriller 12 Minutes . 12 Minutes follows the listen-bending journey of a man, voiced past James McAvoy, as he tries to pause out of the 12-minute loop that he seems perpetually stuck in. Information technology's upward to the actor to uncover the mystery surrounding his wife, the vehement intruder, and a mysterious pocket watch.

Because 12 Minutes sees the histrion stuck reliving the same few minutes over and over once again, the game tin get a trivial fleck tedious, specially when information technology's not entirely clear what's supposed to happen next. After the player learns about the existence of his wife'due south secret, ultra-valuable pocket watch in one loop, he states at the beginning of each subsequent loop that he needs to figure out a style to find out where information technology'due south hidden. The only problem is that his wife doesn't seem willing to tell him well-nigh it when he asks her directly and when being interrogated by the intruder, the human passes out correct before she reveals its location.

How to Find the Pocket Watch in 12 Minutes

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Fortunately, finding and getting the pocket picket is pretty simple and can exist grabbed speedily at the start of each loop to progress 12 Minute's story right off the bat. To learn of its existence, run into the cupboard immediately on the left-hand side of the apartment before the man'southward wife leaves the bathroom at the start of a new loop.

After endmost the door when inside, the camera angle should shift from the top-downward view of the rest of the game to a beginning-person view looking through the blinds. The homo will say, "and now, we wait," and and so time volition pass much faster than before. Everything slows downward again when the intruder starts knocking on the door.

Stay inside the cupboard for the residue of the loop no matter what because the wife volition tell the intruder that the pocket watch is in the vent underneath the bathroom medicine cabinet. With this information, first a new loop in 12 Minutes and grab a knife or spoon from either the table or the counter and 1 of the simulated candles.

Get inside the bathroom as shortly as possible afterwards the wife leaves and shut the door. After opening the medicine cabinet, drag the cursor to the bottom of the screen, and the prompt to investigate the hidden "ventilation grid" should appear. Apply either the pocketknife or the spoon to pry the gate open and and so drag the candle to the open gate to illuminate the area. Tucked away on the right side of the grid should be a circular object: the pocket watch.

From at that place, the player has enough of different options in terms of how to go along, but finding the picket is ane of the outset major steps in uncovering the mystery of 12 Minutes.

12 Minutes is available now on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Serial X/S, and Game Laissez passer.

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