Desktop Pet Project

Desktop Pet Project lets you keep animated pets on your desktop. You can summon up to four pets, each with slight differences in personality and behavior, and give them names. Several cats in different colors are available by default.

Care for your pets

Pets need to be fed and sleep, and they sometimes play with mice on screen. They dislike being dragged, but you can use a treat to move one to another place. If you treat them poorly, they remind you to treat them well; this behavior can be turned off. You can also disable their play with the on-screen mice.

Play and customize

You can play several mini-games with your pets. You can import downloadable Shimeji through the Shimeji Import Manager, rather than using a browser extension, and customize their behavior.

A pet creation manager lets you fine-tune interactions and individual sprites. You can upload pets you create to Steam Workshop, which also provides community-created pets.