Planned Release Date: Nov 13, 2026

About This Game

Desktop Goblins turns your Windows desktop into a living goblin village. It runs on top of your wallpaper while you work, and the goblins treat your icons as land to build on.

They chop, haul, mine and build on their own. Huts grow into stone houses, platforms hang from platforms, and an express lift carries miners up the tower. Each goblin has its own strength, intelligence, wage and mood.

Then things go wrong. A chief who skims the treasury sparks strikes and riots. A stray firework burns down the woodshed. Shamans summon rain, gold and spirits, at the price of a grave. Poke the goblins too often and they grab your cursor, drag it home and tie it up.

Your files are always safe: goblins never open, move, rename or delete anything. Press Ctrl+Shift+G at any time to pause them and get your cursor back.

Features

• A self-running village that builds over your desktop icons, in front of or behind your windows

• 20+ building types with tiered sizes, stone upgrades and hanging platforms

• A full economy: wages, a treasury, a greedy chief, and strikes with real demands

• Mines with cave-ins, iron, gems, rail carts and a canary

• Fire that spreads, fire brigades, and stone that resists it

• Celebrations every 15 to 30 minutes with fireworks, brawls and litter

• Shaman spells: rain, healing, wind, gold, spirits and blessings

• War mode, where goblins hog-tie your cursor

• Day and night lighting tied to your real clock

• Hidden easter eggs for patient players

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

yes, pre-generated.
“Some 2D sprites were created with AI assistance and edited by the developer. No AI runs during play.”

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Violence: yes, cartoon and fantasy. There are brawls, fires and arena fights, goblins die in fires and cave-ins, and there are graves.

Blood: a small amount; dead goblins briefly leak blood.

Alcohol: yes. Goblins get drunk at celebrations and on payday.

Gambling: goblins bet their coins on arena fights. The player never bets real money.