Play Dungeons & Dragons : Eye of the Beholder Online

Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder on GBA is that classic first-person dungeon crawl where you’ll spend half your time bumping into walls and the other half panicking when something growls in the dark. You put together a ragtag team of up to six adventurers—I went with a dwarf cleric who kept accidentally healing the wrong person and an elf rogue who somehow always triggered every trap.

The whole thing plays out in these claustrophobic tunnels under Waterdeep, where the walls are suspiciously damp and every corner hides either treasure or something that wants to eat your face. Combat’s turn-based but switches to this weird overhead view where you’ll fumble through menus trying to remember which button casts "Magic Missile" instead of "Burning Hands." (Spoiler: I burned a lot of hands.)

What’s cool is how faithful it feels to the 3rd Edition rules—your characters actually level up with proper feats and spells instead of generic upgrades. Just don’t get too attached to anyone; the dungeon has a way of turning overconfident fighters into very dead fighters. The automap is a lifesaver, though you’ll still get lost at least three times per floor.

It’s janky in that very specific early-2000s handheld RPG way, but if you miss the days of graph paper maps and arguing about THAC0, this’ll scratch that itch.