Desktop Duck A little company for your screen

Desktop Duck doesn't wait in a window for you. Type, and it gets busy alongside you. Go quiet, and it finds its own entertainment: reading a book, bouncing a ball, playing with a toy, or just sneezing.

You can pet it, pick it up with your mouse and toss it across the screen, then set it down wherever you want its home to be. It has opinions about its toys, too: take one away and you'll hear about it. The duck feels alive in a way that's hard to shake once it's there.

Your duck brings you gifts as you go, and unwrapping them fills out a collection of hats, glasses and other pieces, over a hundred items in all. Duplicates turn into Feathers, a currency you spend on the specific pieces you're actually after.

Dress your duck in a party hat, give it a pair of sunglasses, and let it waddle around your desktop looking exactly as ridiculous as you intended.

There are no timers, no failure states and nothing to lose here. The duck asks nothing of you: it entertains itself when you're away and stays quietly nearby when you're not. You play at your own pace, which mostly means you don't play at all and the duck handles its end of the relationship.

A companion that's content just to be there, which is a rarer thing than it sounds.

Up to four of you can share a screen, watching the ducks waddle around, interact and generally cause a scene together. There's a built-in chat, emotes to send, and mini games to compete in while you talk.

The chat is the part that sticks with people: a shared desktop of ducks in silly hats turns into a low-stakes hangout you can leave open during a long conversation. It's co-op in the loosest, friendliest sense. Nobody wins, but the soccer high scores say otherwise.