Okay, so Pac-Panic on Game Boy is basically what happens if you throw Pac-Man into a falling-block puzzle game—and somehow it works? You’re still dodging ghosts (because of course), but instead of chomping dots, you’re frantically clearing colored blocks before they pile up. The ghosts still mess with you, though—they’ll slide in and block your matches just to watch you panic.

At first, I thought it’d be a lazy reskin, but the puzzle mechanics actually feel solid. Matching three same-colored blocks clears them, but the maze layout means you’ve gotta think ahead. And yeah, the ghosts are still jerks—Blinky especially loves camping right where you need to match. The music’s got that classic Pac-Man bleep-bloop energy, and the pixel art’s charming in that chunky Game Boy way.

It’s weirdly tense for a puzzle game. One wrong move and suddenly you’re buried under blocks while the ghosts laugh at you. Definitely not just another Pac-Man cash grab.