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Works on android beautifully. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crawlmb

Looks like all the graphics are missing, it is just showing a bunch of weird computer type symbols, dashes and what not. Still needs a lot of work /s

That's cos it's the ASCII version :).

whoosh

Doh! Was wondering what the /s meant ><

meh. Given how I've never found a good keyboard on Android (as in, I consistantly screw up on all of them), RLs like this are unplayable.

But in general, RLs are ill-suited to mobile play, due to the keyboard interface. There are only a few RLs that I've seen buck this, and thus work properly on mobile.

The first is Pixel Dungeon (which should surprise nobody)

The second is Hoplite (although that's defining Rogulike a bit broadly). It has a very limited set of player actions, but also an interesting twist: enemy movements are completely deterministic, so the game bares more resemblance to a puzzle game than anything else.

A great roguelike on android is Pixel Dungeon https://f-droid.org/app/com.watabou.pixeldungeon

I'm the maintainer of that port, glad you like it :)

Thanks for pointing this out! Never would've thought to check for DCSS for my phone... How up-to-date is this kept, do you know?

I basically try and update the game whenever a new stable version is released. I don't typically monitor the website myself though - usually someone will email me asking when I'll update it, and even then I'll need to find time to do the update.

Interesting. It consistently crashes for me after the character selection screen on Android. (e.g., I hit "q - Gargoyle", "a - Fighter", "c - flail", and crash.)

No issues for me, playing & updating versions for _years_

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