Saju Friend

Saju Friend is a desktop companion featuring Boknyang, a small pixel luck cat that sits on a cushion in the corner of your screen and stays on top while you work, study or browse. Clicks pass through around the cat. You can click it to open the menu, drag it to move it, and change its size from the right-click menu or with Ctrl + mouse wheel.

Focus with Boknyang

Choose a 15-, 25- or 50-minute focus timer. After you finish a session, Boknyang gives you Bokjeon, the in-game currency, with rewards for up to 8 sessions a day; if you quit early, the cat looks a little sad. A Luck Orb fills slowly while the app is running and catches up for up to 2 hours while it is closed; pop it to collect Bokjeon.

The game includes 16 background music tracks, covering lo-fi study, rainy night, jazz café, winter fireplace, dawn piano, city pop, forest breeze, bouncy 8-bit and calm Korean instruments such as gayageum and daegeum. You can switch tracks or turn the music off at any time.

Fortune and luck games

You can crack a fortune cookie, read a daily luck line or choose face-down tarot cards: one, two, three or five. The daily two-card reading can be done once a day. Other readings include Western and Chinese zodiac, numerology, omikuji, Celtic tree, Maya day sign (nawal) and a one-line saju (Korean four-pillars) reading based on your birth date.

For name compatibility, enter two names and watch a number count up and stop. The game offers Korean stroke counts, Japanese kana and kanji, and the FLAMES game for English names; names are not saved or sent anywhere. Quick luck games include a coin toss, dice, slots, scratch ticket and a ten-toss luck experiment, all played with Bokjeon only. If a result is poor, you can tie it to a tree branch and shake it off.

Cat outfits and collections

There are 63 outfits and room items, including cat skins, hats, neckwear and auras, as well as Bokjeon baskets, luck orbs, lanterns, cushions and clouds for the cat’s corner. You start with 10 items and unlock the rest using Bokjeon and levels earned by playing. A luck-play collection book has 17 common, rare and legendary entries, along with fortune-cookie notes and slot symbols.

On your PC

Saju Friend uses a small window and lowers its frame rate when idle. It reads keys only in the name and amount boxes. Your birth date and play records are saved on your PC and are not sent anywhere.