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A handheld roguelike is a roguelike game for a small electronic device such as a cellphone, a video game system, or a PDA.

Even a handheld system capable of running Windows or Linux does not guarantee a good roguelike experience. The small screen and limited controls of most handhelds mean that, unless careful work is done in UI design, the resulting game can be unplayable.

List of handheld roguelikes by platform

Some of these games also work on Windows or Linux, either by themselves or with the help of an emulator.

Multiple platforms

CalcRogue (stable; made for TI QWERTY calculators and PalmPilots)

Calculators

TiRogue (alpha)

Cellphones

Game Boy Advance

PalmPilot

iLarn
iRogue
kMoria (alpha)
Nethack-Palm (alpha)
PaleoHack (alpha)
PocketRogue

PlayStation Portable

Angband for PSP (alpha)
NetHack for the PSP (beta)
ToME for the PSP (either in alpha or beta - unknown)

Windows Mobile / Windows CE

Other

NetHack for Psion
Hack for Nintendo DS - requires DSLinux

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 A '''handheld roguelike''' is a [[roguelike]] game for a small electronic device such as a cellphone, a video game system, or a [[wikipedia:PDA|PDA]].
-Even a system capable of running Windows or Linux does not guarantee a good roguelike experience. The small screen and limited controls of most handhelds mean that, unless careful work is done in [[UI design]], the resulting game can be unplayable.
+Even a handheld system capable of running Windows or Linux does not guarantee a good roguelike experience. The small screen and limited controls of most handhelds mean that, unless careful work is done in [[UI design]], the resulting game can be unplayable.
+= List of handheld roguelikes by platform =
 Some of these games also work on Windows or Linux, either by themselves or with the help of an [[wikipedia:emulator|emulator]].

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