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Bard's Tale - Tales Of The Unknown, The is an old-school dungeon crawler where you roll up a party of adventurers and dive into a maze of traps, monsters, and loot. The NES version keeps the brutal difficulty—expect to get lost in identical-looking corridors, scribble maps on graph paper, and reload after your party gets wiped by a random encounter.

Character creation takes forever, but there’s something satisfying about tweaking stats for your fighter, mage, or bard (yes, bards can actually fight here). The first dungeon feels claustrophobic, with enemies popping up every few steps. Combat’s turn-based and slow, but the spells have weight—watching a fireball clear a room never gets old.

It’s janky by modern standards, but Bard's Tale - Tales Of The Unknown, The has a weird charm if you’re into grinding and figuring things out the hard way.