Self-Hosted Sources, Game Views & Redesigned Game Cards
Ascendara 11.5.1 · October 18, 2026
You can now connect your own game library from a web server, network share or folder on your computer and browse it right in Ascendara. The External Sources page is reorganized so it's always clear what you're browsing, game cards in Search have a new design, and you can see how many people have viewed each game.
Download
| Platform | Version | File | Size |
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| Windows | 64-bit | Ascendara.Setup.11.5.1.exe | 206 MB |
| macOS | Apple Silicon | Ascendara-11.5.1-mac-arm64.dmg | 250 MB |
| macOS | Intel | Ascendara-11.5.1-mac-x64.dmg | 261 MB |
| Linux | 64-bit | Ascendara-11.5.1.AppImage | 352 MB |
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All files and checksums
| File | Size | SHA-256 |
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| Ascendara-11.5.1-mac-arm64.dmg | 250 MB | 7e3d796cb9498288492ad32666b5a30ca8dd810cb34d5b9f85b0ada49ca5dcb6
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| Ascendara-11.5.1-mac-arm64.dmg.blockmap | 247 KB | 8c98ee5f19aaee76fe789695a5f4c5ccd998b9ad17f39c422a243f0d1d91c676
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| Ascendara-11.5.1-mac-arm64.zip | 248 MB | b67551d7a4effce74ecc0aee82b31e707a8b2f8d06bac462c1e81a7168fef593
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| Ascendara-11.5.1-mac-arm64.zip.blockmap | 263 KB | 5906167e81768e10547c3c5e488d9034488fc88237ada67095c030ec85597ce9
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| Ascendara-11.5.1-mac-x64.dmg | 261 MB | 507df51e2572f1b127b7b607cc2368915ba54fbfca51c4fa6be4c50012a0d6e8
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| Ascendara-11.5.1-mac-x64.dmg.blockmap | 253 KB | 2f80f5f49255aa5b1ee0a2e57201119b5fd10176e7f0a57b62b23d8b82c63541
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| Ascendara-11.5.1-mac-x64.zip | 260 MB | f26df55a6ec387bad81a1d06d5d33249a010c42ac625f7a6caab7671f884fcb3
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| Ascendara-11.5.1-mac-x64.zip.blockmap | 275 KB | b74550e4fa27e75279821fa20775fe311c33f9b04dfb787fbdf541f4eec93fac
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| Ascendara-11.5.1.AppImage | 352 MB | 3ccbc172be047e78471e4d0211fe997dd859d6971993bb5f7070971b16c235de
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| Ascendara.Setup.11.5.1.exe | 206 MB | ffeb4dda2e3e62063424448bd8a2834a54973e28d429cfc1fb824fb74ad17423
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| Ascendara.Setup.11.5.1.exe.blockmap | 218 KB | 83ccc6b7a90db6778fa87a82d6b60f2e4df4c8786ee3a13ff67e71ad8cf58397
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What's new
➕ Added
Ascendara Core
- Add self-hosted sources, so you can browse and download games from your own web server, network share or local folder
- Show whether each self-hosted source is online, checked live while you're viewing them
- Find artwork and game details for self-hosted games automatically, or match and edit them yourself
- Review self-hosted packages in Downloads before extracting, mounting or importing them, with nothing run automatically
Game Search
- Show how many people have viewed each game on search cards and the game page
🛠 Improved
Ascendara Core
- Redesign the External Sources page with a Now browsing card and tabs for community sources, imported lists and self-hosted sources
- Switch to any source with one Use button, and back with Use Ascendara index, instead of a separate on/off switch
- Reorganize the Game Index settings so each option explains what it does
- Redesign the General settings layout and the language card
- Split the custom theme editor into columns that scroll on their own
- Translate self-hosted source errors and messages into your language
Game Search
- Redesign game cards with stats, tags and a strip showing size, version and last update
- Add a Recently updated badge to game cards
- Add or remove favorites straight from a game card
🐛 Fixed
Ascendara Core
- Fix extracting RAR archives on Linux systems that don't use a UTF-8 language setting
- Skip unwanted files in GOFile folders instead of downloading them
- Stop using unrar-free on Linux, which can't extract most game archives
- Show text that was missing a translation, such as Clear and Rename
Full list of code changes: 11.5.0 → 11.5.1