List of handheld roguelikes
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 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.
Some of these games also work on Windows or Linux, either by themselves or with the help of an emulator.
Multiple platforms
- CalcRogue (stable; for Palm Treo cell phones and TI QWERTY calculators)
- FAangband [1] (for NDS, Windows CE, and some non-handhelds)
- Strange Adventures in Infinite Space (stable; for Palm Treo and Windows Mobile cell phones, and some non-handhelds)
- POWDER (stable; for GBA, NDS, PSP, GP2X, WinCE, and some non-handhelds)
Calculators
Cell phones
Tip: When you buy a mobile phone, get a smartphone like an iPhone, Android OS, Symbian OS, Palm Treo, BlackBerry, or Windows Mobile device. Smartphones can run a wider variety of software than most cellphones. See the Palm and Windows Mobile sections below.
iPhone cell phones
- The Dungeon [2] - an homage/pseudo remake of an old Macintosh Roguelike, the Dungeon of Doom
- 100 Rogues [3] - a fully animated, original roguelike developed for the iPhone
- iPhone RPG [4] (for use in the iPhone web browser)
- NetHack for iPhone [5] (requires jailbreaking; also, you must run the command ROWS=16 in MobileTerminal.app before starting it, or else it's almost unplayable)[6]
- iNetHack [7] (iPhone port availabe on the AppStore)
Palm Treo and Centro cell phones only
- CalcRogue (stable)
- iLarn
- iRogue
- kMoria (alpha)
- Nethack-Palm [8] (unreleased)
- NetHack / Slash'EM for Zodiac [9] [10]
- PaleoHack (alpha)
- PocketRogue [11]
- Strange Adventures in Infinite Space (stable)
- Z/Angband, ToME, etc. for Zodiac [12]
Java Micro Edition (J2ME) enabled devices
Handsets from practically all major manufacturers (except Apple's iPhone) are able to run J2ME games and applications.
Android OS devices
Symbian OS
Development of Symbian OS only applications is made using C/C++. Symbian OS is primarily found on smartphones from Nokia. Symbian OS handsets can also run J2ME games and applications
Windows Mobile / Windows CE cell phones only
- AngbandCE
- nanRogue (final beta)
- NetHack for Windows CE
- Strange Adventures in Infinite Space (stable)
- POWDER (stable)
Game Boy
- Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer (Fushigi no Dungeon 2: Fuurai no Shiren), port (or similar game) to the SNES version.
Game Gear
- Dragon Crystal. Similar to Fatal Labyrinth on the Genesis (playable on the handheld system Sega Nomad).
Game Boy Color
- The main dungeon of Other Life: Azure Dreams, the Game Boy Color port of Azure Dreams for the PlayStation, was a graphical roguelike.
Game Boy Advance
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team
- To play the following games, buy an inexpensive Game Boy Advance flash cartridge or download a Game Boy Advance emulator for your PC. NO$GBA[13] is currently one of the more accurate Game Boy Advance emulators for the PC. Perhaps it is also possible to play them using a computer-to-GBA link cable or a Game Boy Advance Movie Player or other such device. You can also play these (and any other Game Boy Advance homebrew applications) on a Nintendo DS via a slot-1 card such as the CycloDS Evolution[14]
Nintendo DS
- Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer [15]
- Rogue [16]
- Hack [17]
- NetHack for the Nintendo DS
- Dungeon Crawl for the Nintendo DS [18] (The site is down. Use Wayback. Last version is 1.0.) Try this link: [19]
- POWDER (stable)
- Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja [22]
- Angband (development abandoned, source and .nds file available) [23]
- DungeonS [24]
- The Pokemon Mystery Dungeon commercial games are built around random dungeon crawls, strongly reminiscent of Rogue dungeons. They are graphical, use standard DS input, and have plots, but the plot can most often be ignored.
Other
- NetHack for Nokia 770 Internet tablet (version 1) (version 2)
- NetHack for Psion
- NetHack for Sharp Zaurus [25]
- NewtHack (shareware for the Apple Newton; registration costs USD$20 and entitles you to the full version) [26]
PlayStation Portable
- Angband for PSP (alpha)
- NetHack for the PSP (beta)
- ToME for the PSP (alpha? beta?)
- POWDER (stable)
See also
- List of console roguelikes - roguelikes for video game consoles that connect to a TV
- List of roguelikes