Desktop Mate on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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A little more joy on your desktop, every day. Always with the characters you love—they sit on your windows, play with your mouse cursor, and respond to head pats. Featuring a built-in alarm and in-game sync, with new officially licensed character DLCs released regularly!

Desktop Mate is a anime, cute and utilities game developed and published by infiniteloop.
Released on January 07th 2025 is available only on Windows.

It has received 8,910 reviews of which 5,913 were positive and 2,997 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.5 out of 10. 😐

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Desktop Mate into these genres:

Anime Cute Utilities Animation & Modeling Psychological Horror Software Desktop Companion Colorful Female Protagonist Singleplayer Relaxing

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 64bit / Windows 11 64bit
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz / AMD Ryzen 3 3300U
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 730 / Radeon VEGA 8
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: A GPU or a CPU with integrated graphics is required. These requirements are based on displaying one character (required performance may increase depending on the number of characters displayed and your settings).

User reviews & Ratings

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1836 hours played
May 2026
I love this software. having the possibility of having my favorite vocaloids and characters on my screen always makes my day! I would love if there was a "furniture" feature where i could spawn in a chair so that they can sit on it, or giving them things to interact with.
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944 hours played
March 2026
its a nice little app for teto to be on my screen, and ive enjoyed it a lot the quality of the model and interactions is high and well done my main gripe is the fact all these characters cost a lot more than they should really, they should be half the price they are now and then itll be really worth it, cause 24 bucks aud for a single character is WAY over priced and if you like muitple characters then say goodbye to your wallet tldr: good characters, models and interactions bad pricing like big time teto is worth it though
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81 hours played
Nov. 2025
I can have anime tits as my background AND an anime girl in my bottom right corner??!!! This is the future guys!
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81 hours played
Oct. 2025
Teto lives on my desktop and she's very cute. There's a lot of room for improvement to be fair, the animations are fairly limited and some simple options such as being able to toggle her shadow would be nice. The app is still being worked on though, so maybe it'll expand in the future and I am looking forward to the two characters on screen together update. When that comes along, I might bag me a Miku. The most common complaint I've seen is that the price for new characters is a bit steep, and yes it is. But the app is free and the default girl is cute too, so you can always give it a go before paying out to see if you want it.
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295 hours played
Sept. 2025
I loved everything!! The characters are all so cute!! It's so cool you all make DLCs with vocal synths, which is my favorite interest!
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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, Desktop Mate is free to play on Steam.

Desktop Mate is not on sale because is already free to play on Steam.

Yes, Desktop Mate received 5,913 positive votes out of a total of 8,910 achieving a rating of 6.53.
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Desktop Mate was developed and published by infiniteloop.

Yes, Desktop Mate is playable and fully supported on Windows.

No, Desktop Mate is not playable on MacOS.

No, Desktop Mate is not playable on Linux.

Yes, there are 34 DLCs available for Desktop Mate. Explore additional content available for Desktop Mate on Steam.

No, Desktop Mate does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, Desktop Mate does not support Steam Remote Play.

No, Desktop Mate does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Desktop Mate.

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Desktop Mate
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Rating
6.5
5,913
2,997
Online players
3,283
Developer
infiniteloop
Publisher
infiniteloop
Release 07 Jan 2025
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