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Desktop Pals

Desktop Pals

Desktop Pals is the ultimate desktop companion game, featuring a wide selection of pets, interaction, advanced settings and more!

Released May 29, 2024 Developer Shutterframe Studios Platforms Windows CasualCatsSimulationSingleplayerIdler
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-18)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

89.4%positive104 reviews
Recommended · 10 found this helpful

“It adds a small pixelated pet to your screen and hopefully triggers your caregiver neurons enough to keep it around. The interactivity is limited but you can change its visuals and drag it around the screen to where it bothers you the least. Otherwise it munches sometimes,…”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Recommended · 8 found this helpful

“its cute and its nice to click the cat to purr once i complete a task”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
Not recommended · 35 found this helpful

“While it's cute and free, it feels a bit pointless to have it on your desk. It's pretty painful to move it on your screen as well. I wish you could grab it instead and, when left to his own device, it would do more than just sleep. You end up forgetting about it, until you watch…”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-07 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.

32all-time peak
0 10 20 2025 2026 No data collected for this period 10 avg · Jul 2024

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Mar 12, 2025
Desktop Pals 2 Announcement

After a lot of silence on Desktop Pals, I bring you some very exciting news! After a lot of work changing and updating various bad systems and code, I have decided to go all out and create a sequel. D

Nov 28, 2024
The SCP Desktop Pals Pack has arrived! + V6.1

As a huge SCP fan, one of the things that I wanted to do as soon as possible is create a SCP Pack with SCP Pals. Well, I am happy to announce that I made that a reality. As of 6.1, today's update, you

Oct 30, 2024
Desktop Pals 6.0 - Major Update!

Desktop Pals 6.0 is here, and with it, there are a large number of new features and changes! Localization has been added! Now, the languages available are English, Japanese, Spanish, Russian and Chine

Sep 30, 2024
5.0.1 Update

5.0.1 has now been released. This minor update includes: Fixed bug where pal would not react in certain conditions. New point reward effects for Streamer Mode.

Sep 23, 2024
DESKTOP PALS MEGAUPDATE - VERSION 5.0

Hi all! Today is an exciting day for me because I am releasing Desktop Pals 5.0! This is the largest update which has been released yet, and it is not even close. There are tons of new changes and fea

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresCasual, Indie, Simulation
Player tagsCasual · Cats · Simulation · Singleplayer · Idler · Family Friendly · Funny · Arcade · Design & Illustration · Indie · 2D · Emotional (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , Spanish - Spain * , Japanese * , Russian * , Simplified Chinese * *
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10