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The amazing free Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup has an android port. Rougelike, eg. terrible graphics, permadeath (no save/reloading), high replay value, focus on interesting decisionmaking. Grinding is against the games philosophy, there is for a example a button for autoexplore, autotravel, you have ingame-wide search.

Highly addictive, but great for inducing flow (and rage!)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newtzgames.dcssonline&hl=de

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newtzgames.dcssonline

This is the app I use, it works great for me. No ads or purchases and the only issue is having to log back in occasionally if you switch away to another app for a while. He reccommends Hacker Keyboard but I don't use it much, I prefer the larger buttons. You do need it installed for a few weird inputs though.

ok, my comment below was about DCSS Online (I was guessing that based on the reference to CAO), but I guess this means you are playing this other app?

In that case your morgue (if it is correctly saved) should be saved locally, on your android device -- it won't be uploaded anywhere. CAO is a server for online play, which you could use through the other play store app I linked. If the ascii app is using the same setup as regular versions, the morgue will be somewhere near your save games, but I have no idea if or how you'll have access. It may depend on what the particular app developer did; I would try contacting them about this question if no one here knows.

ok, my comment below was about DCSS Online (I was guessing that based on the reference to CAO), but I guess this means you are playing this other app?

In that case your morgue (if it is correctly saved) should be saved locally, on your android device -- it won't be uploaded anywhere. CAO is a server for online play, which you could use through the other play store app I linked. If the ascii app is using the same setup as regular versions, the morgue will be somewhere near your save games, but I have no idea if or how you'll have access. It may depend on what the particular app developer did; I would try contacting them about this question if no one here knows.

Sprint is just a variant of crawl that some people like. There are multiple flavours and forks of crawl that enjoy some popularity.

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Dungeon_Sprint

Trunk is a term used in software revision control which is the base upon which a developer implements changes to a project. For crawl, all changes go into trunk, so "trunk" refers to the most recent version of the source tree, i.e. the game.

What you call "dcss online" is the web tiles version that is mirrored on several servers. Aside from that, there are console ncurses builds that run in a terminal, which can be played over ssh at those same addresses. There's also an SDL2-based offline tiles build that has features such as equipment overview.

I understand you grabbed the webtiles android program here?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newtzgames.dcssonline

I would strongly recommend a physical keyboard for this game, if you can at all obtain one.

>tiles or ASCII?

Whatever you prefer. It's a personal preference thing. I'm a huge Linux nerd and a computer programmer and am in the command line all the time, and I grew up on the original rogue and larn and all that ASCII goodness.. but I still prefer tiles if I have a choice.

>How can I sync my files?

Have you tried just playing on the web? Just go to http://crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/#lobby and make an account and start playing. And, as far as the Android thing, you can get an app that logs into webtiles as well. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newtzgames.dcssonline

Which version were you using?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newtzgames.dcssonline

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crawlmb

I'll second that as well. Just go to the game's WebTiles server and run the tutorial. It will get you up to speed for a game and the mechanics. There is also a generous Wiki and a very nice tutorial by Ultraviolent. Interestingly, it even runs quite decently on a tablet with both Webtiles or ASCII.

Go to the play store, if you have android, and look up dcss online and dl that.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newtzgames.dcssonline&hl=en

i think the unofficial android app sort of does what you're asking for? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newtzgames.dcssonline&hl=en

Play webtiles: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newtzgames.dcssonline&hl=en

Play offline tiles, but it's 0.16.1: http://crawl.develz.org/release/crawl_tiles_android-0.16.1.apk

Play offline ASCII: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crawlmb&hl=en

here

Haven't tried it myself.

Yes I totally agree, playing online has a lot of perks!

>you can spectate other players active game/have them spectate yours, theres even a chat!

Getting advice as a new player can be very helpful sometimes and many people are willing to give it. There's also a discord channel where you can talk about the game and ask questions.

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Regarding your original question, r/dcss has a side panel "DCSS Resources", here it is again:

DCSS Resources

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is free and open source software.

• Download Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for free and start playing today!
• Or, start a game of DCSS Online right now in a web browser or via ssh!

Please post morgues when talking about specific characters! Here's some tips on how.

• DCSS Online for Android
• Crawl Wiki
• Crawl LearnDB
• LearnDB Search
• beem and LomLobot, bots for WebTiles and Twitch chat.
• UV4's Guide to DCSS

Dcss, Unnethack, BrogueX. I played this games on emulator: Dwarf fortress, adom, original angband, original dcss.

If DSCrawl is all you're after, take a look at Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. DSCrawl is a port of Linley's Dungeon Crawl, and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is the current version of Linley's Dungeon Crawl. There are three Android versions available:

• Online-only Tiles version - This is a frontend to connect to the web version of DCSS. This means you'll always be playing the latest version of the game, but as a consequence you need to be online to do so.
• ASCII version - This works offline, but it's the ASCII version :) If you're used to DSCrawl, you're used to the Tiles version
• Offline Tiles version - This is an older version, but it allows you to play the Tiles version offline. I'm not sure why development has not continued, but it seems like the Online version is the official version now.

You could use the tiles or ASCII play store application?

I play the online tiles version on my android tablet fairly regularly. I have a keyboard which connects to the tablet so I don't have to use the onscreen keyboard, but it still doesn't have a numpad. I taught myself to use the vi keys, which ends up being better once you've learned them because you don't have to move your hand over to the numpad all the time.

It makes sense once you realise that the 4 cardinal directions are all on one row, and the diagonals are separated out.

Don't forget there's also the webtiles version on android now if you don't mind being online.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newtzgames.dcssonline