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Eye of the Beholder came out in 1991 for MS-DOS, developed by Westwood Associates and published by Strategic Simulations. It was one of the defining dungeon crawlers of its time, sitting alongside other grid-based first-person RPGs that demanded patience and attention. The game captured the feel of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, pulling players into a dark, claustrophobic world without holding their hand.

You control a party of four adventurers, navigating the twisting corridors beneath Waterdeep one square at a time. Your goal is to survive the depths, uncover a sinister plot, and eventually confront the evil beholder at the heart of it all. You explore the dungeon screen by screen, fighting monsters in real-time combat, managing spells, and solving environmental puzzles. The pacing is deliberate, and the difficulty is punishing; every step forward feels earned, and every mistake can be fatal. It feels like a tense, methodical descent into a place you were never meant to see.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".