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{{mergeto|List of Portable Software|Talk:List of Portable Computer Games}}

This is a list of [[computer game]]s that aredo not required to be any kind of formal "installedation" onto a computer's permanent storage device to be executed, and can be stored on a removable storage such as a [[USB flash drive]] and used on multiple computers. Ideally it can be configured to read its configuration from the same location as the game. This should not be confused with [[software portability]], which is the ability for software to be run or compiled with little modification on diverse computing platforms. Most games on this list can be run on multiple computers of the same hardware and operating system platform onlyA full definition is available [[Portable App|here]].

Generally, the following links point to game files or [[archive file]]s which can be directly installed from a web server to your portable [[USB flash drive]], although, in some instances the process may be somewhat more complicated.  Where this occurs it will be noted along with the method on how to make those specific game files portable.  Listed below are computer games (mostly free) which appear to be portable or relatively portable based on their [[executable]], but as a majority of links have yet to be tested feel free to delete those entries which do not appear to fit the criteria.  .

Unless otherwise stated, all games are either in [[archive file]], which can be copied and extracted to your portable media. A number of the following game files are also, or simple .exe files or folders which, like the archives, are simply copied after download onto your device for portability.

FPlease note that, for ease of use and extra capacity, you may want to think about including a portable file archiver on your portable media, so that game files may be compressed to allow for more storage.  Examples of portable [[file archiver]]s can be found in the [[List of Portable Software]] article though whatever program you choose to choose make sure it can at least extract both [[ZIP (file format)|Zip]] and [[RAR (file format)|Rar]] archive files.  these are available [[List of Portable Software#File Archivers and Extractors|here]].

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* '''Bug Squish'''  ([http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bugsquish/features/ site]) - a simple, but addictive point and click game where you defend your arm against ever increasing waves of blood sucking insects.  Based on the game Blood Suckers for Mac OS. 
**Compatible with: ''Windows, Mac, Linux, BeOS and others''  
(contracted; show full)rev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://softinteractive.free.fr/%26hl%3Den%26hs%3Dreb%26lr%3D%26client%3Dopera%26rls%3Den site]) - French based Super Mario World clone with Bart as the main character.  Can be downloaded directly to your portable media via the Setup file, though it may leave an entry on the start menu after download, which needs to be deleted. Remember to delete the uninstall file after download. 
**Compatible with: ''Windows''

* Many emulation programs such as [[ZSNES]] are portable.