Antares – Griff nach den Sternen is a role-playing game from the Swiss label Nightmare Productions and also the only game from this young team. According to the April 1991 issue of Amiga Joker, as a science fiction role-playing game from the German-speaking world, Antares is a “real rarity”. Reviewer C. Borgmeier was enthusiastic, describing the game as “one of the best debut works we have ever encountered” and awarding it a score of 82 percent, while Power Play only awarded 47 percent. Since the game was only released in German, it never gained international attention. Antares is set in the year 2280. As players, we take on the role of a rescue crew tasked with locating a research ship that has disappeared mysteriously in the Antares system 34 years before. However, our own ship, the Auriga, comes under heavy fire from a space station and is forced to make an emergency landing on the inhospitable planet Krypton. At the start of the game, the player must assemble a party of five from the twelve survivors. The choices include illustrious characters such as battle robots, androids, phantoms, mutants, and even ordinary humans. They differ in their skill sets: combat, technology, medicine, language analysis, culinary arts, and PSI powers, which are used for magic-like abilities. With this team, it is now necessary to explore, fight, and solve puzzles to uncover the mysteries surrounding the lost crew and one's own crash. Both the graphical interface and the gameplay are based on Bard's Tale. A small window in the upper left corner allows the world to be explored from a first-person perspective. The environment appears in a discrete 3D representation, while enemies and non-player characters appear as 2D sprites. Dialogues and the results of the frequent battles are conveyed in the text window below. In turn-based battles, party members gain experience points and items. In contrast to the tactically simple combat system, resource management is challenging: the party's light, alertness, motivation, and hunger, which change throughout the day, must always be monitored. Party members who have fallen can be revived in your own spaceship, but only if you manage to return there with the necessary resources and at least one character. Although Antares does not contain any animations, the large game was delivered on four floppy disks. It could be installed on the hard drive and offered the option of saving the current progress. Antares was developed between 1989 and 1990 using the Modula 2 programming language and was released in 1991 by the German distributor Bomico. Although Bomico was the most important distributor of games from well-known international manufacturers in the German-speaking world at the time, Antares was only the second game produced in-house. The game was published exclusively for Amiga, while further versions for PC and Atari ST, as well as a sequel called “Tumble” were discussed, but never realised [1]. Antares – Griff nach den Sternen can be played with Amiga emulators and is available for free download on the programmer's website [2]. Although the developers did not release another game after Antares, some remained loyal to the medium. A few years later, the Michael Wyler founded the video game mail order company World of Games [3], which still exists today. The programmer Kjell M. Droz went on to develop an online gay chat platform in the late 1990s that was similar to an MMO.