Navy Blue on Game Boy is one of those simple-but-satisfying naval battle games where you’re constantly second-guessing enemy ship placements while trying not to get your own fleet blown to bits. The controls are pure Game Boy—just the D-pad and two buttons—but somehow that’s all it needs. You’ll spend the first few minutes figuring out how to position your destroyers, then suddenly it’s 20 minutes later and you’re muttering at the screen because the AI just nailed your battleship with a lucky torpedo.

What I love is how it nails that retro tension—no fancy graphics, just grids and tiny pixel ships, but every move feels high-stakes. The music’s got that classic Game Boy beep-boost soundtrack too, the kind that gets stuck in your head after a few rounds. It’s not the deepest strategy game ever, but for a quick handheld fix? Still holds up.

Just don’t expect mercy from the later levels—the AI gets sneaky.