Choose How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness
Choose How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness if you want a Free To Play experience. On Steam, it carries the stronger Steam consensus at 91.6% positive across 467 reviews.
How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness vs Twelve Minutes
How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness and Twelve Minutes both land in Indie, Adventure on Steam, which is why they keep getting compared. The comparison below is built from each game's Steam metadata — release year, genres, categories, Steam Deck status, price, and review score — refreshed daily by imho.run's scraper. Headline differences: Both share Indie, Adventure on Steam. How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness (2018) is 3 years older than Twelve Minutes (2021). How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness scores higher on Steam reviews (91.6% positive) than Twelve Minutes (68.7% positive). No login or purchase needed — scroll for the full table, the verdict FAQ, and links to ranked similar games for both titles.
Which should you pick?
Choose Twelve Minutes
Choose Twelve Minutes if it's the newer release (2021) and ships with the modern feature baseline. 3,467 Steam reviews back the pick.
Both How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness and Twelve Minutes sit in Indie and Adventure on Steam, so either pick lands in the same broad neighborhood. Use the side-by-side table for the feature view, or follow the "Games like" links below to see ranked alternatives for either title.
Side-by-side comparison
 How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness |  Twelve Minutes | |
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2018 | 2021 |
| Genres | Indie, Adventure, Free To Play | Indie, Adventure |
| Platforms | Windows, Linux | Windows |
| Steam Deck | Unrated | Deck Verified |
| Price | Free to play | 24.99 USD |
| Steam reviews | 91.6% positive (467 reviews) | 68.7% positive (3,467 reviews) |
| Multiplayer | Single-player only | Single-player only |
| Developers | Point Bleep Studios | Luis Antonio |
Side by side
- Both share Indie, Adventure on Steam.
- How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness (2018) is 3 years older than Twelve Minutes (2021).
- How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness scores higher on Steam reviews (91.6% positive) than Twelve Minutes (68.7% positive).
- How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness is free; Twelve Minutes is paid (24.99 USD).
- Twelve Minutes is Deck Verified on Steam Deck; How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness has no Deck rating yet.
How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness vs Twelve Minutes — FAQ
- Which is better, How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness or Twelve Minutes?
- On Steam reviews How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness scores higher (91.6% positive) than Twelve Minutes (68.7% positive). Both have enough reviews to trust the signal, so for players using reviews alone, How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness is the safer pick. Genre fit still matters — check the side-by-side table for the categories each game lands in.
- Should I play How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness or Twelve Minutes first?
- If you want chronology, How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness (2018) came out before Twelve Minutes (2021). If neither is a sequel to the other, order doesn't really matter — start with whichever fits your current mood, since both share enough on Steam to make either a reasonable opener.
- Are How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness and Twelve Minutes similar?
- They overlap on Indie, Adventure on Steam, so the catalogue groups them together — but "similar" depends on the specific mechanics. Use the genre + category rows above to decide whether the overlap matches what drew you to the one you've already played.
- Is How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness free?
- Yes — How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness is a free-to-play Steam title. Twelve Minutes is paid (24.99 USD).