DPET : Desktop Pet Engine

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DPET : Desktop Pet Engine is a single player action game. It was developed by Live3D and was released on May 13, 2022. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

What is DPET?DPET is a desktop pet generation engine. In the client software, a lot of cute virtual pets are integrated, and you can summon them to your desktop with one click. Every pet can freely walk, run, climb on the desktop, and even self-clone itself into more partners. If you are a streamer, you can also connect your twitch account and randomly generate desktop pets for your active audie…

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72%

Audience ScoreBased on 853 reviews

humor14 positive mentions

stability7 negative mentions

Cute and charming desktop pets with smooth animations that bring life to the screen.
Free and easy to use with a large variety of pets including popular characters, and ability to upload custom ones.
Helpful features like reminders and settings to control pet behavior, and active developer responsiveness to user feedback.

Extremely difficult to uninstall; the app continues to run and spawn pets even after uninstallation, causing frustration.
Consumes significant system resources causing lag, crashes, or freezing, especially with multiple pets on screen.
Workshop integration is buggy or non-functional, limiting access to additional pets and causing inconvenience.

humor
14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The humor in the game is widely appreciated for its lighthearted and amusing elements, such as funny characters and playful animations. Users find it cute and entertaining, with some wishing for more interactive and conversational humor among desktop pets. Overall, it’s praised as a fun and charming experience.
- “I love this app. It's funny and cute; at some points, I have the whole TF2 team on both sides.”
- “Funny dog on my screen 10/10.”
- “It would be cute and funny if the desktop pets were able to have conversations with other desktop pets, like they just stop and start playing a talking animation to each other.”
stability
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game suffers from significant stability issues, including frequent crashes, glitches that interfere with other applications like Discord and Steam, and problems with uninstalling or relaunching. Users report persistent bugs such as overlays malfunctioning and difficulty managing the app on startup, making the overall experience frustrating and unreliable.
- “Extremely hard to uninstall and is just too buggy.”
- “When I first got this app, I was so excited, but it's buggy and crashes.”
- “I like the idea behind this app especially considering shimejis sort of went extinct in the Windows 10 era but as much as I'd love to recommend this, it's too buggy... like way too buggy; shimejis downloaded from the workshop don't show up, if you have this running in the background Steam will show it as a game, and there are reports of people who haven't been able to stop this app from running on startup.”
optimization
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
The optimization is generally praised for running games smoothly without impacting performance, providing a seamless experience both during and outside gameplay. However, there are concerns from some users about potential unoptimization or malicious behavior.
- “It all runs just perfect — it never affects performance while playing games, and runs super smooth on its own meanwhile and outside as well.”
- “Either un-optimized or malicious.”
monetization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The platform emphasizes advertising and marketing monetization, offering industry intelligence and creative services tailored to advertising, apps, mobile games, and e-commerce. Its monetization approach centers on supporting marketing efforts rather than direct in-game purchases.
graphics
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The graphics are praised for their cute and adorable aesthetic, appealing to players who enjoy charming and visually pleasing designs.
emotional
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The emotional aspect is described as absolutely adorable, evoking a warm, positive feeling. However, the mention of "touching up your screen" seems unrelated to emotional impact.
grinding
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Grinding in this context is streamlined effectively, transforming the typically tedious and complex process of manual installation into a straightforward and accessible experience.

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DPET : Desktop Pet Engine is a action game.

DPET : Desktop Pet Engine is available on PC, Mac OS and Windows.

On average players spend around 6400 hours playing DPET : Desktop Pet Engine.

DPET : Desktop Pet Engine was released on May 13, 2022.

DPET : Desktop Pet Engine was developed by Live3D.

DPET : Desktop Pet Engine has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked DPET : Desktop Pet Engine for its humor but disliked it for its stability.

DPET : Desktop Pet Engine is a single player game.

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