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Desktop Gremlins

A transparent desktop pet that lives on your screen, evolves through 5 characters and wreaks havoc with open applications. Feed and pet it—or face its wrath.

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ShuGhost
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ShuGhost
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About the Game

Meet your new desktop companion — a mischievous creature that lives directly on your screen, reacts to everything you do, and absolutely refuses to be ignored.

Desktop Gremlins is a transparent, always-on-top desktop pet that evolves as you spend time with it. Feed it, pet it, entertain it, and watch as a tiny slime gradually transforms into a powerful dark sorceress. Just don’t forget to take care of your gremlin — or be prepared to face the consequences!

🌱 Evolve Your Companion

Begin as a tiny slime and progress through four unique stages of evolution. Each character has its own appearance, animations, dialogue, and personality. Feeding, petting, and other interactions grant experience and help your gremlin evolve.

😈 Chaos Mode

Want to cause a little mayhem? Enable Chaos Mode and give your gremlin complete freedom. It can shake and move windows, rearrange desktop icons, spin your browser, flash the taskbar, and perform other unexpected pranks.

Your gremlin will make sure it gets noticed.

🎵 Music and Application Reactions

Your gremlin dances when it hears music and reacts differently when you open Steam, Discord, Visual Studio Code, Photoshop, and other applications. It carefully watches what you are doing and always has an opinion.

💬 A Living Personality

Enjoy hundreds of different lines in four languages:

• English
• Українська
• Русский
• 日本語

Your gremlin can be hungry, happy, sleepy, affectionate, or furious — and it will always make sure you know exactly how it feels.

🛠 Steam Workshop

Customize your gremlin with community-created sprite packs from the Steam Workshop. Subscribe to creations made by other players, download them directly through Steam, and apply them in the application.

Want to share your own character? The built-in upload tool validates the structure and dimensions of your sprites, then allows you to publish a complete sprite pack directly to the Steam Workshop.

Create your own gremlins, share them with the community, and discover new designs made by other users.

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