10 Recent Video Game Moments That Pissed EVERYONE Off

8. You Thought It Was All Over - Twelve Minutes

Mr Freeze
Annapurna

In this top-view puzzler, a husband returns to his flat, only to learn from his wife that she's pregnant. Soon after, a cop bursts in, accuses the wife of killing his father, and murders the husband. Time then resets to the point when the husband returned home, giving him a chance to change events to avoid suffering the same tragic outcome.

Although Twelve Minutes takes place over a period of... well... twelve minutes, this cryptic adventure title takes hours to complete, since the player has to try out all sorts of scenarios to escape from this Groundhog Day dilemma.

After dying over and over and over again, you eventually crack the solution. After the husband irrefutably proves his wife didn't kill anyone, the intruder acknowledges his mistake and leaves. As the couple embrace, the player is expecting the credits to roll.

Instead, the timeloop begins again! It turns out there's something else you have to figure out to break the loop for good. Even though it's a neat twist, it really ticked off first-time players, since they were certain they had solved the case.

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