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Games like Desk Paws
GinkgoGames · 2025 · Windows, macOS
Steam: 86 % positive of 467 reviews, as of Oct 28
Collect over 100 stylish little pets on your desktop! They can freely move along the bottom of your screen, or live in the little houses you've carefully decorated for them. Hmm... or perhaps send them on adventures to earn treats?
24 games that play like Desk Paws and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Screen Cat, Pet idle and A Building Full of Cats.
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Plays and looks like Desk Paws
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Desk Paws
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Screen Cat
91 % positive of 1,698
Shared: Idler · Pixel Graphics · Relaxing
Pet idle
77 % positive of 750
Shared: Creature Collector · Collectathon · Relaxing
A Building Full of Cats
98 % positive of 4,155
Shared: Creature Collector · Collectathon · Relaxing
NoSlack Pets: Lo-Fi Paws
96 % positive of 412
Shared: Idler · Collectathon · Relaxing
Pat the Cat
97 % positive of 197
Shared: Idler · Relaxing · Cats
Desktop Kitten Girl
84 % positive of 284
Shared: Idler · Creature Collector · Collectathon
Tiny Pasture
92 % positive of 7,115
Shared: Idler · Creature Collector · Pixel Graphics
VPet-Simulator
98 % positive of 52,057
Shared: Relaxing · Simulation · Anime
Pocket Waifu: Desktop Pet
92 % positive of 1,741
Shared: Idler · Relaxing · Anime
Organized Inside
93 % positive of 2,083
Shared: Relaxing · Simulation · Point & Click
your girl
98 % positive of 305
Shared: Relaxing · Casual · Cute
Animal Shelter
87 % positive of 3,673
Shared: Relaxing · Simulation · Building
More matches
- Chonkers87 % positive of 526Shared: Idler · Creature Collector · Pixel Graphics
- Sill Cats91 % positive of 724Shared: Idler · Pixel Graphics · Relaxing
- Meow Palace: Forbidden City89 % positive of 248Shared: Idler · Creature Collector · Relaxing
- 100 Capitalist Cats97 % positive of 3,878Shared: Creature Collector · Collectathon · Relaxing
- A Building Full of Cats 297 % positive of 1,167Shared: Creature Collector · Collectathon · Relaxing
- Cat Isle96 % positive of 182Shared: Pixel Graphics · Relaxing · Simulation
- Bongo Cat95 % positive of 113,873Shared: Idler · Relaxing · Simulation
- Oriko Days90 % positive of 187Shared: Pixel Graphics · Relaxing · Simulation
- Calico88 % positive of 3,242Shared: Relaxing · Simulation · Anime
- Animal Shelter: Prologue90 % positive of 1,909Shared: Simulation · Building · Cats
- Cats Organized Neatly97 % positive of 4,446Shared: Relaxing · Cats · Casual
- Rainbow Cattle99 % positive of 317Shared: Relaxing · Casual · Cute
By look
Looks like Desk Paws
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Tiny Pasture
92 % positive of 7,115
Moonstone Island
84 % positive of 4,115
Whimside
90 % positive of 396
Mushroom Nook
98 % positive of 475
Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi
96 % positive of 3,635
Maltese's Fluffy Onsen
94 % positive of 2,791
NoSlack Pets: Lo-Fi Paws
96 % positive of 412
My Little Life
89 % positive of 1,056
Your Big, Cute Monster Farm
77 % positive of 1,194
Loafing Town
85 % positive of 540
HoloCure - Save the Fans!
98 % positive of 40,920
Not Monday Cafe
94 % positive of 555
More matches
- Whisper of the House95 % positive of 5,497
- Shelldiver98 % positive of 17,622
- Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi95 % positive of 2,642
- Farlands: Tiny Harvest78 % positive of 342
- Desk Garden83 % positive of 479
- Eggo82 % positive of 387
- Berserk B.I.T.S80 % positive of 672
- Marisa!ReturnTheBook!89 % positive of 713
- Turnip Boy Robs a Bank94 % positive of 1,898
- Screen Cat91 % positive of 1,698
- Forager88 % positive of 35,609
- Doloc Town94 % positive of 3,503
At a glance
What games like Desk Paws have in common
- The tags they share most often with Desk Paws: Relaxing (20 of 24), Idler (10) and Creature Collector (8).
- They came out between 2020 and 2026, 4 of them after Desk Paws (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: A Building Full of Cats (98 % positive of 4,155).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.