Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder on GBA is basically the closest you'll get to old-school tabletop D&D without rolling actual dice. You start off assembling a party—fighter, cleric, thief, mage—and immediately get thrown into this claustrophobic dungeon where every corner could have a hidden pit or some gnoll waiting to ambush you.

The first thing that hits you? The grid-based movement feels weirdly deliberate at first, but after a few battles, you realize it adds this tense, chess-like strategy to fights. Spells are limited per rest, so you’ll agonize over whether to burn that last Magic Missile now or save it for whatever’s growling behind the next door.

And the puzzles! Some are straightforward (pressure plates, levers), but others make you scribble notes like you’re back in school. The pixel art’s surprisingly moody for a GBA title—torchlight flickers just enough to make you nervous about what’s lurking in the dark. If you’ve got nostalgia for 90s CRPGs or just want a dungeon crawl that actually makes you think, this one’s a solid time capsule.