Planned Release Date: Oct 16, 2026

About This Game

Tiny friends that live above your taskbar

Desklings turns the thin strip above your taskbar into a tiny home. Doodle-style creatures wander, nap, peek at your cursor and visit the decorations you place while you work, study or play. Clicks pass straight through to your windows, and the strip hides itself when a fullscreen game or video is running.

Pet them, toss them

Rub a friend with your cursor and it closes its eyes while little hearts float up. Pick one up and it dangles from your cursor. Flick it and it tumbles across the desk, bounces off the nest and gets a little dizzy. Friends show how they feel with tiny doodle emotes. There is nothing to feed or look after.

Hatches on its own, or faster when you focus

Leave Desklings running and the egg in the nest slowly warms up, then hatches on its own. To hatch it sooner, click the nest and start a focus session of 15 to 120 minutes. When it ends, the egg hatches right away, with better odds of a rare friend and more ink.

Collect all kinds of friends

Friends come in all kinds of body shapes, colors, patterns, eyes, legs and head styles. Look for rare traits like star-shaped bodies, gold and berry colors, hearts, little horns and eight legs. The odds are shown right in your collection.

Dress them up, decorate your desk

Your friends earn ink just by keeping you company, and faster while you focus. Spend it on 29 decorations and 18 hats, rename your friends and give each one a look of their own. Hats and decorations for Halloween, winter, Lunar New Year and spring are always available, not just in season.

Features

• A transparent strip above your taskbar. Clicks pass through and it doesn't steal focus
  
• Pet, rub, pick up and toss your friends. They react with little doodle emotes
  
• Eggs hatch on their own while the game runs. A 15–120 minute focus timer hatches them instantly with better odds
  
• All kinds of friends to collect, 44 traits to discover, rarity odds shown in the collection
  
• 29 decorations and 18 hats, seasonal ones included, all available any time
  
• Name your friends and choose who stays on the desk
  
• 34 Steam achievements
  
• Stats: today, streak, total focus time and a 7-day chart
  
• 4 ambient sounds: rain, campfire, waves and brown noise
  
• Choose the monitor, the strip length and whether it stays on top
  
• Hides during fullscreen games and videos. Lightweight: 30 FPS when idle, less on battery
  
• No accounts, no ads, no microtransactions
  
• English, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese

Good to know

• To quit, open the nest menu and choose "Quit Desklings", or press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Q at any time.
  
• Your progress is saved automatically.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

The in-game text and the store page text, including the Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese translations, were written with the help of AI. Nothing is generated by AI while you play.