Tiny Desktop Pals transforms your group chat into a cozy desktop widget where your actual friends appear as small animated characters. Messages flow naturally as your companions react and interact with each other, creating a living social space that runs quietly in the background. It's ideal for anyone wanting a more playful, persistent connection with their friend group without the distraction of a full app.
About this game
a group chat that quietly lives on your desktop. where your real friends become tiny desktop companions.
Players, last 55 days
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Daily peak concurrent players, sampled once a night from Steam.
just pushed a little halloween update :) the pals have dressed up for october. vampires, witches, ghosts, mummies, and some questionable (but spoooky) costume decisions this update includes: halloween costumes: seasonal (temp) Halloween looks across the whole roster Drawing pad: added a "Close on Send" option. Turn it off to keep drawing after sending a doodle. your choice is remembered. always on top: fixed pals losing their always-on-top behavior without the setting changing. character layering: improved how overlapping pals keep their front-to-back order. dragging: fixed pals getting stuck in a dragging state when a drag gets interrupted. thanks for all the feedback and for spending a time with your desktop pals. let me know how this one feels, hope it aint too spoooopy for u! muhaha with love, penyo
this update is all about customization + drawing. you can now give your pal their own look with different colors, skin tones, and expressions. and there's a whole new drawing pad built into chat so you can send your friends little doodles while you hang out.there are also a bunch of new pals, proper DM tabs, quick chat, and another round of performance improvements. quite a bit of stuff in this one.featured changes:character customization! multiple color themes for every pal, skin tone options for human characters, and 11 emotive expressionsdrawings in chat! make little pixel doodles and share them in rooms or DMsnew pals — 60 total companions to choose from now :)better DMs — separate conversation tabs and unread indicators, even across different roomsquick chat and more performance improvementscharacter customization!overwhelmingly, the #1 request has been wanting to customize your characters. you can finally give your little desktop person (or creature, or mysterious void thing) a custom lookevery pal now has 8 color themes to choose from, and human characters have six alternate skin tones alongside their original lookyou can also add expressions! hearts, sparkles, music notes, excitement, sleepy zzz, and more. sometimes your pal needs to look as stressed as you are.draw sketches with friends!words are lame bro. sometimes you need to send your friend a badly drawn frogthere's now a drawing pad built right into chat, so you can make little pixel doodles and share them in rooms or DMs. drawings show up in chat and in your pal's speech bubble on the desktop.i wanted to give yall a bit of room to play with this, so there's an eight-color palette, different brush tips/sizes, an eraser, bucket fill, and even patterned fills for stripes, dots, and dithering. really looking forward to seeing what yall do with thisfeel free to share your drawings with us, we would love to feature it to the community :)(image: awesome art from our friends Feinate and bluehourscalm)more pal...
just pushed another follow-up update from yesterday's update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4720820/view/670629296167977052?l=english in addition to yesterday's update, this new includes: Global chat shortcut: Customize a shortcut to open and focus chat without losing your draft. Shortcut binding: A listening indicator and live keycaps make setup clearer, with Windows key support and an unbind button. Whispers: Disable incoming whispers and send cross-room messages from chat. Settings: Compact General, Chat, and Advanced tabs with clearer switches and localized labels. Presence notices: See when people sign in, sign out, join, or leave. Chat auto-scroll: Automatically jump to the newest message. Chat rendering: Fixed stale text pixels and improved redraws. Room count: Shows “in room - 7 (4 online),” excluding away and offline users from the online count. Minimize to tray: Optional and off by default. Steam invites: Invites last longer and have clearer recipient labels and localized expiry instructions. special thanks to everyone, especially coconutkidplays for this latest feedback
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