Desktop Pet
A downloadable game for Windows
Summary
A little friend that runs around on your desktop, plays with your cursor and keeps you company!
Made using Unity, works with both Windows 10 and Windows 11 !
The images shown on the right side of the Itch.io page might have color differences with the actual pets due to the GIF image being resized.
Any feedback will be taken into consideration and do not hesitate to report any bug found while playing.

Features
The following behaviors are implemented :
| 1 - Cat (Free) | 2 - Red Panda | 3 - Intellect Devourer | 4 - Spider |
| Idle Walk Cursor attack Hunger Pet Sleep/Nap Drag Cursor chase | Idle Walk Cursor attack Hunger Pet Sleep/Nap Drag | Idle Walk Cursor attack Hunger Pet Sleep/Nap Drag | Idle Walk Cursor attack Hunger Pet Sleep/Nap Drag |
| 5 - Sphynx | 6 - Ferret | 7 - Fox |
| Idle Walk Cursor attack Hunger Pet Sleep/Nap Drag Cursor chase | Idle Walk Cursor attack Hunger Pet Sleep/Nap Drag Dig | Idle Walk Cursor attack Hunger Pet Sleep/Nap Drag |
| 8 - Dog | 9 - Parrot | 10 - Crow | 11 - Axolotl |
| Idle Walk Cursor attack Hunger Pet Sleep/Nap Drag Cursor chase | Idle Walk Cursor attack Hunger Pet Sleep/Nap Drag | Idle Walk Cursor attack Hunger Pet Sleep/Nap Drag | Idle Walk Cursor attack Hunger Pet Sleep/Nap Drag |
Global features :
- Left click on the animal to pet it, it will raise its affection towards you
- Left click and drag to move the animal
- The animal mood will display from time to time
- Left click on the food icon to spawn some food
- Right click on the spawned food to make it disappear
- Left click on the cog icon to open the settings
- Left click on the tool window to rotate it
- Left click and drag the tool window to move it around
Settings features :
- Change the animal sleep schedule
- Enable or disable audio
- Allow the animal to always be displayed in the foreground
- Resize the pet
- Resize the tool window
- Name the pet
- View the time at which you opened the game for the first time
Credits
Animals' pixel art (except Axolotl) : Under an Attribution - NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license with the given supplement permissions: You can use the assets in commercial projects, as long as you don't redistribute (i.e upload the assets to other sites) or resell (this includes minting as nfts) the assets. -- Elthen's Pixel Art Shop
Animals' pixel art (Axolotl) : You can use this asset in any game project, personal or commercial -- Pop Shop Packs
UI : License - For commercial or personal use. - It can be used and edit freely. - Not redistribute or resell this assets. - It can be used for game development and other productions. -- ToffeeCraft
Spider noises : License - Attribution 4.0 Spider Voice.wav by columbia23 -- https://freesound.org/s/395395/
Red Panda noises : ProSounds -- Youtube Channel
Intellect Devourer noises : Sound Effects [Free] -- Youtube Channel
Cat/Sphynx noises Meows : License - Creative Commons 0 Cat Meows by Lukey1028 -- https://freesound.org/s/732520/
Cat/Sphynx noises Purr : License - Creative Commons 0 Cat Purr/Twit5.wav by steffcaffrey -- https://freesound.org/s/262310/
Ferret noises : Sound Dino -- https://sounddino.com/
Fox Purr : Sound Dino -- https://sounddino.com/
Fox Call : Produced by ZapSplat -- https://www.zapsplat.com/
Parrot noises : Sound Dino -- https://sounddino.com/
Dog noises : Sound Dino -- https://sounddino.com/
Crow noises : Sound Dino -- https://sounddino.com/
Feeding noise : Sound Dino -- https://sounddino.com/
Axolotl noise : Sound Dino -- https://sounddino.com/
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| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (11 total ratings) |
| Author | zizel.exe |
| Genre | Simulation |
| Tags | Animals, Cute, Desktop Pet, Pixel Art, Unity |
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Comments
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Super cute, love it! Just a suggestion: it would be rly nice if you could download more than one pet and have them play together etc. At the moment I have two kittens but they are two different separate downloads, and so can't interact with each other
Hi! That would indeed be very cute. I have a few projects I'd like to complete first, and after that if I find the courage to do this I definitely will :3
Can i please ask how to delete it?
Hi! Of course!
1 - If you want to delete your savefiles: type "%appdata%" in your windows search bar. Go back one by clicking on the "AppData" folder in the path bar at the top. Then click on "LocalLow" and delete the "Mariarco Studio" folder if you want to delete every savefile. If you're looking to delete a specific pet go into the "Mariarco Studio" folder, then into the "DesktopPet" folder and find the name of the pet savefile you wish to delete.
2 - If you want to delete everything, delete your savefiles (see bulletpoint 1) and then delete the zipfile you downloaded to get the game!
Omg please add an axolotl or a tabby cat, i rly miss my cat stormy and shes a tabby, brownish/grayish, mostly gray with stripes. if you add that THEN I LUV YOU <3333
Oh nvm i have no money to get it anyway </3.
I'll look into both of these! And I'll make sure to make the Tabby cat free since the other cat is free as well :3
thank you sm you don't even know how happy i am rn because my cat stormy had cat aids whoch made her rly sick so my mom gave her away I LUV YOU THANK YOU SMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi! I just added two tabby cat versions (I didn't know if you would prefer a brown or gray one) as well as an axolotl! The cats are free and the axolotl was added to the 1 dollar bundle. Enjoy your desktop pet and feel free to let me know if there is anything wrong with it ๐๐
PLEASE ADD TO macOS!! T_T
Hi! I've never published something for macOS before, but I'll check if I can do this for you ๐
THANK YOU SO MUCHH!!!! >V<
I'll reply to this comment again when it's done!
OH MY GOSH THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! IM CRYINGGGG TUT
Hello! Sorry to bother you, but how long will it take? :)
Really cuteee !
pls add fox
A fox has been added to the bundle ! Thank you for your suggestion and let me know if there is anything wrong with it !
Are all the other animals besides the cat free? when i click download it just says the cat download file! (Plz respond >.<)
Hi ! The cat is free and you get all other animals if you donate 1$ ! It's 1$ for all of them, not per animal โญ
pls does it work for windows 10?
it does, i have 10 and it works fine
tanks
youre welcome
Thanks for the question, after testing it I added in the summary that it works for both windows 10 and 11 :)
tanks2
Hey, that's awesome, good job ! :D
The animals are cute, even if they only a few pixels on my screen.
You should add a capybara eventually :)
cuteeee aaaa looking forward to the next steps ๐
Really cute I'll love my brain eater till I die. The only thing I would have liked to have is a an option to resize the size of the pet on the screen
Thank you so so much ! I'll write it down and add the feature in the settings probably before the end of the month
What does it mean when the cat pulls out a gun and demands 5000 dollars? Is this a bug?
This is really cool! I want the red panda irl