Skylords Reborn on Steam Deck - Support & Questions Megathread

[Metagross31]

Hey all,

since multiple people had questions about running the game on a Steam Deck in the past, I decided to create this thread as a place to collect questions and issues and help each other getting the game to run.

A good place to get started with running the game on a Steam Deck is the "Skylords Reborn on OSX/Linux" thread by Ultrakool:

If you can't get the official updater to launch properly, there is also an alternative updater script, which can be found in the official download thread:

If you have any specific Steam Deck related questions or issues, feel free to report them here, so either someone of the team or fellow community members may help you.

[pakoito]

I've just installed from Lutris, the v2 version. It drops some errors in the console but it ends up installing and launching okay.

 

Now, the game doesn't accept Gamepad controls out of the box and in the launcher, and the mouse position has a bad offset from the controls on the screen, so you have to manually change to Touchpad...except all buttons are itty-bitty.

In summary, you have to play with a physical mouse & keyboard 😞

Edited July 13, 2024 by pakoito

[Metagross31]

I haven't played the game on a steam deck yet, but I have played it with a gamecube controller on a (Linux-) PC before. It required some fiddling around and essently I just mapped the analogue stick to emulate a mouse. Maybe something like this is viable on the deck as well?

[pakoito]

You get mouse-as-stick out of the box, but the way the GUI framework polls mouse positions (or how the Steam layer reports them) does not match with the position of the UI elements on screen. Your mouse cursor is tens of pixels offset from the button touchboxes. There is probably a config fix somewhere, something related to scaling, but I could not be bothered to check as it happens to other mid-00s windows games too.

Edited July 13, 2024 by pakoito

[gimpi]

On 7/14/2024 at 12:48 AM, pakoito said:

You get mouse-as-stick out of the box, but the way the GUI framework polls mouse positions (or how the Steam layer reports them) does not match with the position of the UI elements on screen. Your mouse cursor is tens of pixels offset from the button touchboxes. There is probably a config fix somewhere, something related to scaling, but I could not be bothered to check as it happens to other mid-00s windows games too.

sorry pretty late here but i can play the game with the trackpad and some shortcuts on all the buttons pretty good ... sure nott for pvp at least me but all pve maps runs great and i play it alot on steam deck. iirc you must change the resolution in an ini file so the trackpads and mouse cursor works fine 

 

but since last patch the linux patcher will not work like it should after everey start game sayys itts the wrong launcher after i start the linux patccher it says evereything is fine ... but it wont start becaus of "wrong launcher" ^^ 

[mx2]

35 minutes ago, gimpi said:

sorry pretty late here but i can play the game with the trackpad and some shortcuts on all the buttons pretty good ... sure nott for pvp at least me but all pve maps runs great and i play it alot on steam deck. iirc you must change the resolution in an ini file so the trackpads and mouse cursor works fine 

 

but since last patch the linux patcher will not work like it should after everey start game sayys itts the wrong launcher after i start the linux patccher it says evereything is fine ... but it wont start becaus of "wrong launcher" ^^ 

The update manifest format changed in the last patch. A new version of the update script is available here.

Edited March 3, 2025 by mx2

[Metagross31]

2 hours ago, gimpi said:

sorry pretty late here but i can play the game with the trackpad and some shortcuts on all the buttons pretty good ... sure nott for pvp at least me but all pve maps runs great and i play it alot on steam deck. iirc you must change the resolution in an ini file so the trackpads and mouse cursor works fine 

 

but since last patch the linux patcher will not work like it should after everey start game sayys itts the wrong launcher after i start the linux patccher it says evereything is fine ... but it wont start becaus of "wrong launcher" ^^ 

Hey, check out the most recent few posts by mx2 and me in the Linux/MacOS support thread:

 

[gimpi]

On 3/3/2025 at 6:22 PM, mx2 said:

The update manifest format changed in the last patch. A new version of the update script is available here.

Oh wow this worked flawlessly thanks !! 

[gimpi]

On 3/3/2025 at 6:22 PM, mx2 said:

The update manifest format changed in the last patch. A new version of the update script is available here.

 

 

Sorry to bothering but is there any other new change ? Because strangley I became the same error message as before after it worked until yesterday ? 

[mx2]

On 3/18/2025 at 9:29 PM, gimpi said:

 

 

Sorry to bothering but is there any other new change ? Because strangley I became the same error message as before after it worked until yesterday ? 

There seems to be no additional change to the updater as of now.

Could it be that you saved the new version with the name `skylords-upd.sh` to the game directory? If yes, the updater got overwritten with the outdated version form the update servers. In this case you can download my updater again as save it e.g. as `skylords-upd2.sh` and should be fine.