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Pocket Waifu: Desktop Pet
Elevate your desktop experience by adopting a desktop waifu! Similar to a tamagotchi, she will keep you company on your desktop while you work or play other games! Pat her head, feed her snacks, give her plushies, or go fishing. Bring a little joy and cozy vibes to your daily routine!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“If someone can make you happy, cheer you up, and make you laugh, they can definitely be your friend, and that fact doesn’t change even if they’re just a cluster of pixels transformed into a sweet and beautiful character. Probably the cutest desktop pet I’ve ever tried. There are…”
— a player, Steam review · 646 hrs played“It takes so long to max the game out, and get all the achievements, but the game is pretty cute, I love having it on the screen while doing something else”
— a player, Steam review · 1,030 hrs played“This game is cute and very cool. My only issue is that it tosses all of my stats onto high. gpu is 75% to 100% (flatlined at 100%) depending on what else I am doing such as watching TV, Most importantly, when you close the game, your pet's needs will go down”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Pocket Waifu 1.4.5 patchnotes
Hi everyone! Minor Easter-related patchnote today! FIXES: All boxes and currencies (petals and chocolates) should now stack in your Steam inventory. Less clutter! There seems to be an issue with Easte
Pocket Waifu 1.4.4 patchnotes
Hi everyone! Small update again today, but a welcome one: It's Valentine's day season! You can now earn up to two petals per day by making valentine's day cards with Lil Silvy! We're working hard on n
Pocket Waifu 1.4.3 patchnotes
Hello everyone, we hope you're having a great end of 2025! We're hard at work on the next big update, but in the mean time we wanted to give you a little gift! This new update adds 4 cosmetic items :
Pocket Waifu 1.4.2 patchnotes
Hi everyone! Small update today, we're working on big stuff but it's not ready yet! CHANGES: You can now get Jack-o-lantern hats again when you do the Pumpkin carving activity! Twice per day! Yippee!
Pocket Waifu 1.4.1 patchnotes
Hi everyone! We're happy to see everyone enjoying the update, we hope you've gotten lucky with the gambling and scratch tickets! We've got a small patch today with some bug fixes and other stuff, here
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Cute · Idler · Cozy · Character Customization · Free to Play · Anime · Relaxing · Life Sim · Female Protagonist · 3D · Indie · Casual (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · In-App Purchases · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 39 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 (64-bit) Processor: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system Memory: 2 GB RAM DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 800 MB available space