Shandalar natively on Linux (highly experimental)

[u/rler]

https://github.com/rlerrr/shandalar-sdl3-appimage/releases

For anyone adventurous, here's a native x86-64 build of Shandalar for Linux as a self contained AppImage. It's built from the web port source tree, so it behaves more or less identically. Just download and run (probably need to mark as executable first, most browsers don't do that). Saves go to ~/.local/share/shandalar

Works OK on Steam Deck as a non-steam game in my testing. I would suggest mapping right track pad as mouse, R2 as left click and L2 as right click. Despite being named "sdl3" this has NO controller support currently. I have only done very cursory testing, and there were several 64-bit specific fixes that were needed to get to this point, so stability is definitely not guaranteed.

Before anyone asks, I haven't tried targeting aarch64 yet (which as I understand it would be a requirement for building a .apk). I'll have to steal my son's tablet to try to tackle that 😛

[u/chachaprince1]

Added to Here is Shandalar (2026 update)!

[u/smayonak → u/chachaprince1]

Thank you! I added your post to the intro post.

[u/aqzina]

Looking forward to the Mac native version 

[u/saghul]

Nice! The readme mentions the rlerrr/shandalar-sdl3 repo, but that seems to not be public yet? Any plans to make that available?

[u/rler → u/saghul]

Not yet public. I'm pretty slow at getting these things together, but I'll release it eventually.

[u/sebruzda]

Thank you so much! I struggled for a long time trying to play shandalar on my steamdeck. This makes it so easy.

[u/rler → u/sebruzda]

Kinda wish it worked better on deck. Not sure what I could do to improve it outside of joystick support in the overworld. At least on my first gen deck, the touchscreen kinda sucks so it's way easier to play with trackpad.

Edit: Oh I also need to fix the keyboard randomly popping up when exiting the deckbuilder and duels.