Amberstar

Amberstar launched Thalion Software's planned role-playing trilogy, a series that was never completed. The game takes place in the fictional realm of Lyramion, where the player character starts at the grave of their father. The story reveals that an evil being named Lord Tarbos, imprisoned a thousand years ago, is on the verge of breaking free. To stop him, the player must gather the thirteen scattered pieces of the Amberstar, the talisman originally used to banish him, aided by various adventurers who join the party.

Though more technically advanced, Amberstar shares many features with Thalion's earlier title Dragonflight, leading many fans to consider it a direct sequel. Like most of the company's releases, it attracted only modest public attention. A sequel, Ambermoon, followed in 1993.

The music was composed by Thalion's Jochen Hippel.

Reviews for Amberstar were mixed to positive in Germany and the UK. Critics often praised its deep storyline but noted that the graphics felt dated next to contemporaries like Ultima Underworld or Might and Magic: Clouds of Xeen. The One gave the Amiga version a 78% score, comparing its gameplay to Ultima VI and Eye of the Beholder, and highlighting the wealth of content: "No matter what your predicament, there's always something new to see or do." However, the magazine criticized the graphics as unattractive and the 3D sections as largely redundant, with minimal direct interaction. It also called the user interface over-complicated and inelegant, suggesting more design forethought would have helped. The One further questioned the frequent switching between first-person and top-down perspectives.

Although intended as the first of three games, only one sequel, Ambermoon, was released—and only for the Amiga. Poor sales of both titles led Thalion Software to close after Ambermoon's German release. The planned third game was titled Amberworld, as disclosed by creator Karsten Köper. On May 14, 2023, surviving source code for Amberstar and Ambermoon was uploaded to GitHub by Jurie Horneman, who programmed both games.