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Birch

Little birds live on your desktop and settle on your icons. Come close and they'll react. Ignore them and they won't mind. Stick around long enough, though, and they start to know who you are.

★ SPIRIT CITY: LOFI SESSIONS ★ VIRTUAL COTTAGE ★ CHONKERS ★ ITHYA: MAGIC STUDIES ★ EGGO ★ MALTESE'S FLUFFY ONSEN ★ BUGABOO POCKET ★ DAYMARK ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Spirit City: Lofi Sessions

98% 👍 OF 17K
About This Game

Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is a gamified focus tool, set to a soothing lofi soundtrack. Discover and collect Spirits, customize your cozy virtual space, and facilitate your real-life tasks with a collection of handy features designed to improve concentration and ease stress.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …read clue entries and combine activity, time, sounds, and lighting to lure a specific spirit into appearing
  • …open an in-game YouTube browser to play your own podcasts or livestreams without leaving, then mix them with in-game rain or white noise
  • …customize layered ambience in real time with rain, thunder, fireplace crackle, birds, cooking, dishwasher, typing, and cat purring at separate volumes
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Virtual Cottage

98% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …sync the cottage lighting to your real-world time, and even change the whole vibe by changing your system clock.
  • …layer rain, wind, snow, and a crackling fireplace together to build your own cozy weather soundtrack.
  • …discover tiny interactive details far into play, like realizing thousands of hours later that you can turn on the lamp.
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Chonkers

88% 👍 OF 616
About This Game

Chonkers is a cozy and relaxing idle game. Adopt the cutest fur balls and watch them ramp up the chonk scale as you play with them. Find them a new family. They’ll pay A LOT for your hefty chonker! Complete your collection by finding all the breeds and the rarest space cats!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Raise Cats into Chonkers
  • …Collect Space Cats
  • …Rehome Cats for Cash
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Ithya: Magic Studies

98% 👍 OF 2.3K
About This Game

Ithya: Magic Study is a cozy background app combined with productivity tools. Customize your room and relax with lofi or fantasy playlists in beautiful, hand-drawn environments. Perfect for a focused or creative session in a magical world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …turn on travel mode and watch your mage wander through shifting locations while the time of day and weather change.
  • …spot hidden little spirits in the landscape, click to collect them, and watch your coin counter climb.
  • …turn your to-do list into main quests and side quests, then get XP and level-ups for marking tasks complete.
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Eggo

83% 👍 OF 428
About This Game

Raise your baby, get married, and hatch eggs with friends right on your desktop! Start with a single egg and nurture Eggo into your special companion. Let it search for treasures from different planets on your desktop and keep you company. Dress your Eggo and even date your friends'. Play with Eggo!

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Maltese's Fluffy Onsen

94% 👍 OF 3.2K
About This Game

Run a bathhouse visited by animals! Maltese's Fluffy Onsen is a relaxing simulation game that you can enjoy while doing other tasks, as it sits at the bottom of your screen. Place baths with different temperatures and rest areas to help a variety of animal friends unwind.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …connect with a Steam friend through an in-game computer to summon a unique visitor.
  • …delete any bath or decoration and instantly get all the money back, so you can redo the whole layout risk-free.
  • …pin an onsen to the bottom of your screen and let it run while you work.
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Bugaboo Pocket

87% 👍 OF 356
About This Game

A relaxing, semi-idle pet game starring bugs from land, air and sea! Play as a research scientist living in a cabin with just your bugs and a penpal for company. Spoil them with pets, minigames, food and furniture. Raise and release bugs to help Beetleback Ridge recover from a devastating fire.

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Daymark

97% 👍 OF 156
About This Game

Work and play with friends! A Bongo Cat-style companion reacts to your input. Play Hold'em, mahjong, Dou Dizhu and Pao De Kuai on your desktop. Multiplayer, Workshop, auto-updating Steam status with apps, music and messages. Gain XP, levels and career records; unlock characters and skins.