The phone version is the full game: the same world and the same character, running in the browser you already have.
Hold it sideways. The world is wide and there is no portrait mode, because a tall thin slice of an isometric town is not worth playing.
The controls
- Stick, bottom left. Push it the way you want to walk. It matches the arrow keys, not the screen, so north is north whatever you are holding.
- Attack button, bottom right. Hold it down, the same as CTRL.
- Tap something to look at it. Tap it again to act on it, so a stray tap never does anything.
- Hold your thumb on somebody to open their menu. That is the right click a touch screen does not have, and it works on people, on guards and on the guildmaster.
- Pinch to zoom in and out. It stays where you put it next time you play.
The panels
Every panel from the desktop is here, laid out for a small screen. Panels drop their decoration first, so the list you opened one for still fits.
The action bar shows fewer slots at once and more pages of them. Nothing is missing: you have exactly as many skills bound as you would on a laptop, just spread across more pages. The set control beside the bar moves between them.
Make it open like an app
Add it to your home screen and it opens fullscreen, sideways, with no browser around it and no address bar eating your view. There is no store, no download and no install to sit through.
On iPhone that is Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android it is the browser menu, then Install or Add to Home Screen.
One thing to expect
The game needs a connection the whole time you play. There is no offline mode.
If the signal drops you will need to sign back in, and your character will be standing exactly where you left them.
Next: getting started, if you have not made a character yet.