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Collect pixel pets on your desktop, feed and breed them, decorate their rooms, and send them on expeditions for supplies.
Released 17 Jun 2025
Collect Claw-Machine Pets
Breed New Variants
Send Pets Exploring
Collect over 100 stylish little pets on your desktop! They can freely move along the bottom of your screen, or live in the little houses you've carefully decorated for them. Hmm... or perhaps send them on adventures to earn treats?
Developed by GinkgoGames · Published by Captcha Games
Desk Paws is a desktop pet game where you collect small creatures and let them wander along the bottom of your screen or live in a customizable house. You can adjust the placement and size of the house, pets, and interface, and use a Do Not Disturb shortcut to hide the game.
Catch pets with a claw machine, feed them to help them grow, and pair them to breed eggs and collect variant creatures. Pets can also be sent on expeditions to bring back materials and other items.
Expand and decorate the house by unlocking rooms and gathering the materials they require. Pets living in rooms generate currency, which can be spent on things such as claw-machine tokens and upgrades; you can also collect outfits and diary pages for Fumi.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its cute, varied pixel creatures and the satisfaction of collecting pets and breeding new variants. Some also like having the pets as a desktop companion, along with the claw machine and room customization. Criticism frequently focuses on cumbersome menus and dragging, bugs or lag, and the time and attention that feeding and breeding can require.
This is a placement game based on computer desktop.
Here, you can get a beautiful little house, a cute apartment manager,
and super many adorable electronic pets!
They will quietly accompany you while you work and study.
We have prepared a total of more than 100 completely different pets for you!
Get them through the specially made claw machines!
Or collect rooms of various styles, freely combine your cottage! Let the little pets move in!
Oh, maybe you want to try breeding them, expanding the collection to 400?
Also, collect outfits and headdresses for the apartment manager Fumi!
Let the pets live in the cottage to collect rent, then spend it all at once at the claw machine~
Dispatch your favorite little pets to venture out, harvesting building materials, snacks, or other goodies!
Customizable level of [Do Not Disturb] button shortcuts, want to hide everything with one click when working seriously? Completely ok!
Customizable position and size of houses, pets, UI, don't want them fixed to a certain spot on the desktop? Completely ok!
Want to click on something? Try the small props that can be freely dragged and tossed on the desktop~you can even stack them up!
Or receive visitors, and then flip through Fumi's secret diary?
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 89 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
