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Desktop Pet Project

85% positive of 48 Steam reviews

Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam

Made by Alterran Rumble.

About the game

Elevate your PC experience with charming desktop pets. Inspired by such a wonderful invention as Shimeji, Desktop Pet Project has tried to collect the most interesting and curious mechanics. You can summon up to two pets that will have slight personalities in behavior.

Tagged by players

Cats
Life Sim
Idler
Artificial Intelligence
Emotional
Immersive Sim
Management
Character Customization
PvE
Sandbox
2D Platformer
Relaxing

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Positive

What players say

Recommended
Bought this on sale and was glad that I got it. The cats are really cute and keep me company on my screen during mundane tasks. You can have up to 4 at a time, and there are dogs for the dog-lovers as well. I turned off the option for the memes because I found the popup windows distracting.
5 h played when written. 6 found it helpful.
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Recommended
it's alright, just your classic desktop pet program. its nice you can have multiple running at once, but maybe increasing the pet slot amount would be nice. The phone (which is basically a menu) you can use to summon items, play games etc. is cool. But I wish right clicking gave you interaction options with the pet itself, something other desktop pets I used before had. For example, instead of just summoning the…
9.7 h played when written. 5 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
I have a pretty new gaming laptop. Nothing running in the background. Tried starting this programm and all the three options given. All i get ist the "first start"-screen and then nothing happens. Tried restarting my laptop, the game and all sorts of trouble shooting. Nothing worked... Never had any issues like this with any other game before. Asked for a refund now...
1.5 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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