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Four Minutes to Midnight

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A post-apocalyptic text adventure with party-based RPG elements

The briefing

About this game

Four Minutes to Midnight is a post-apocalyptic text adventure set in the United States in the not-so-distant future, following an outbreak of a deadly bacterial strain.

Blending classic text-adventure gameplay with RPG-inspired party management, the game lets players gather a group of survivors with different skills. The objective is to lead a party of five across the devastated country and reach sanctuary.

Published by 8th Day Software, it was released for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1984.