Popular games published by company 8th Day Software

Four Minutes to Midnight is a post-apocalyptic text adventure with a twist. The game takes place in the United States in the not so distant future and the premise is that there has been an outbreak of a deadly bacteria strain. The twist is that the player can in a true RPG fashion, gather a party of adventurers in an otherwise classic text adventure to help along with the quest at hand. Different members can have different skills that help with the problems the player encounters. The objective is to lead your party of five survivors across the devastated United States to sanctuary.

The pride and joy of the Federation, the Quann Tulla spaceship has been stolen by it's creator Erra Quann to take to the Evil Empire and sell the secrets of it's engines. You have been tasked to retrieve the ship as well as kill the traitor. Problem is, in the pursuit, your own ship the Crimson Cloud II has been damaged and you have run out of air. You must quickly start breathing again before completing your mission and save the Federation. Quann Tulla is a text adventure where text on the screen describes your location and you use the keyboard to type in commands to control your hero and interact with each location.

A text adventure that was later re-released with some added graphics. The game was created using Gilsoft's Quill. You tell the game what you want to do by typing instructions via keyboard and the parser is based on verb / noun input.