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Desktop Ball

Emergent Behavior Studios · Emergent Behavior Studios

Desktop Ball

gameAppID 5109460Demnächst
Release-Datum12.11.2026

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EntwicklerEmergent Behavior Studios
PublisherEmergent Behavior Studios
KostenlosNo
AlterKeine

A little ball that lives on top of your desktop and can blow it up, zap it, flood it, haunt it, or grow a garden all over it. Fidget with it through meetings, queues and compiles, and when you're done, it gets out of the way. Seven weird balls, and every one of them beats doomscrolling.

It lives on your desktop.It's a little toy that lives on top of your desktop, sort of like a digital fidget spinner. Play with it in a queue, a meeting, a compile, a render, whenever your hands want something to do. Grab it, fling it around, bounce it off the edges of your monitors, and when you stop playing, it gets out of the way so everything else just works underneath. Had a rough day?Yeah... these two are for you. Pin the Supernova against an edge until it gets DANGEROUSLY HOT, and it goes off in a violent thermonuclear explosion that sets your screen on fire. Tesla is a thunderstorm squeezed into a ball. Charge it against an edge, throw it hard, and THUNDER STRIKES. Even your mouse gets charged up and starts zapping things. Touch grass. Then haunt it!Sprout turns your desktop into a cozy little garden. Roll it along the edges to grow flowers, or squeeze it to grow vines all over your screen. Just remember to trim it once in a while. Ghost, on the other hand, HAUNTS your desktop. Every throw leaves a little ghost behind, and if you squish it into a wall they just keep coming. They spook easily and they definitely don't pay rent. Splash or dunk?Spongeball turns your screen into a tiny ocean, with a little school of fish to bother. Let the sponge soak up water, then wring it out against your monitor. Or just slosh it all around aggressively (the fish love it!) The Basketball slides its own hoop out from the side of your screen. Bank shots, trick shots, and dunks so good the ball catches fire, followed by a completely unnecessary amount of confetti. Pinky and the gangPinky is the mascot, and the squishiest of the bunch. He has no thoughts, only kinetic energy. Squish him flat against a wall and he slingshots across your screen. Super small chance he'll wink at ya. Right-click any ball to swap it for another, each with its own little backstory. And the first time you open the game, the whole gang shows up to dance for you :) Pick up and playAlways there for you when you want to grab it Hides itself if you go fullscreen, or you can tuck it in a Magnetic Corner Seven balls so far: Pinky, Supernova, Tesla, Spongeball, Basketball, Sprout, and Ghost I lost an embarrassing amount of that time just playing Desktop Ball, instead of making it... I hope it keeps you good company :)

Genres und Kategorien

CasualIndieSimulationSingle-playerSteam AchievementsMouse Only Option#category_playable_at_your_own_pacePlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeStereo SoundSteam CloudStatsFamily Sharing

Plattformen und Anforderungen

windows: yesmac: yeslinux: no
PC
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Linux
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Ausgewählte Änderung

Über das Spiel · 08.11.2026, 07:32

Vorher
<h2 class="bb_tag" >It lives on your desktop.</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >It's a little toy that lives on top of your desktop, sort of like a digital fidget spinner.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >Play with it in a queue, a meeting, a compile, a render, whenever your hands want something to do. Grab it, fling it around, bounce it off the edges of your monitors, and when you stop playing, it gets out of the way so everything else just works underneath.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" > </p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/71d78cf400a6800a0590d4b7db5bce5c.poster.avif?t=1789137713" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/71d78cf400a6800a0590d4b7db5bce5c.webm?t=1789137713" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/71d78cf400a6800a0590d4b7db5bce5c.mp4?t=1789137713" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Need to blow off some steam?</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >Yeah... The Supernova is probably the one for you.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >Pin it against the edge of your monitor, and it gets <strong>DANGEROUSLY HOT</strong>. Keep going, and it goes off in a <strong>violent thermonuclear explosion</strong>. For a little while, your wallpaper gets some nice scorch marks to remember it by.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/15db23d2446b90dfaa588e9de0c39b4b.poster.avif?t=1789137713" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/15db23d2446b90dfaa588e9de0c39b4b.webm?t=1789137713" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/15db23d2446b90dfaa588e9de0c39b4b.mp4?t=1789137713" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Feel like DUNKING?</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >The Basketball comes with its own hoop that slides out from the side of your monitor.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >Bounce the ball off the top of the screen, <strong>chain together trick shots</strong>, and build up a multiplier. <strong>Get the perfect dunk and the ball catches fire</strong>, followed by a <i>completely unnecessary amount of confetti</i>.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/45d6651d41d27495c048c93279ae8480.poster.avif?t=1789137713" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/45d6651d41d27495c048c93279ae8480.webm?t=1789137713" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/45d6651d41d27495c048c93279ae8480.mp4?t=1789137713" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Want a tiny ocean?</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >Spongeball. Your screen turns into a small, physically simulated ocean.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >There's a little school of fish to bother with your cursor, and a sponge that does exactly what you'd expect a sponge to do: soak up water. <strong>Drop it in, let it get heavy, then grab it and wring it out</strong> against the side of your monitor. Or just slosh the water around aggressively (the fish love it!)</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/1493c1337d0240b25c43fa84e000ece6.poster.avif?t=1789137713" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/1493c1337d0240b25c43fa84e000ece6.webm?t=1789137713" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/1493c1337d0240b25c43fa84e000ece6.mp4?t=1789137713" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Pick up and play</h2><ul class="bb_ul"><li><p class="bb_paragraph" >Always there for you when you want to grab it</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" >Hides itself if you go fullscreen, or you can tuck it in a Magnetic Corner</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" >Four balls right now: Pinky, Basketball, Supernova, and Spongeball. More coming soon :)</p></li></ul><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p><p class="bb_paragraph" >I lost an embarrassing amount of development time just playing with it. And it costs less than a cup of coffee :)</p>
Aktuell
<h2 class="bb_tag" >It lives on your desktop.</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >It's a little toy that lives on top of your desktop, sort of like a digital fidget spinner.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >Play with it in a queue, a meeting, a compile, a render, whenever your hands want something to do. Grab it, fling it around, bounce it off the edges of your monitors, and when you stop playing, it gets out of the way so everything else just works underneath.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Had a rough day?</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >Yeah... these two are for you. Pin the Supernova against an edge until it gets <strong>DANGEROUSLY HOT</strong>, and it goes off in a <strong>violent thermonuclear explosion</strong> that sets your screen on fire. </p><p class="bb_paragraph" >Tesla is a thunderstorm squeezed into a ball. Charge it against an edge, throw it hard, and <strong>THUNDER STRIKES</strong>. Even your mouse gets charged up and starts zapping things.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" > </p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/2df67d8d282607da5a3a8bb99a756b6b.poster.avif?t=1793816081" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/2df67d8d282607da5a3a8bb99a756b6b.webm?t=1793816081" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/2df67d8d282607da5a3a8bb99a756b6b.mp4?t=1793816081" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Touch grass. Then haunt it!</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >Sprout turns your desktop into a cozy little garden. Roll it along the edges to grow flowers, or <strong>squeeze it to grow vines all over your screen</strong>. Just remember to <i>trim it</i> once in a while.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >Ghost, on the other hand, HAUNTS your desktop. <strong>Every throw leaves a little ghost behind</strong>, and if you squish it into a wall they just keep coming. They spook easily and they <i>definitely</i> don't pay rent.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/e0eaccd2ffd91fd08ae3d3b6678585f4.poster.avif?t=1793816081" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/e0eaccd2ffd91fd08ae3d3b6678585f4.webm?t=1793816081" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/e0eaccd2ffd91fd08ae3d3b6678585f4.mp4?t=1793816081" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Splash or dunk?</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >Spongeball turns your screen into a tiny ocean, with a little school of fish to bother. <strong>Let the sponge soak up water, then wring it out</strong> against your monitor. Or just slosh it all around aggressively (the fish love it!)</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >The Basketball slides its own hoop out from the side of your screen. Bank shots, trick shots, and <strong>dunks so good the ball catches fire</strong>, followed by a <i>completely unnecessary amount of confetti</i>.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/30f9e96a0df41fe05ad401739758b7f1.poster.avif?t=1793816081" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/30f9e96a0df41fe05ad401739758b7f1.webm?t=1793816081" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/30f9e96a0df41fe05ad401739758b7f1.mp4?t=1793816081" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Pinky and the gang</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >Pinky is the mascot, and the squishiest of the bunch. He has no thoughts, only kinetic energy. <strong>Squish him flat against a wall and he slingshots across your screen.</strong> Super small chance he'll wink at ya.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >Right-click any ball to swap it for another, each with its own little backstory. And the first time you open the game, <strong>the whole gang shows up to dance for you</strong> :)</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/d576ce242c64351224ec499d573cc187.poster.avif?t=1793816081" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/d576ce242c64351224ec499d573cc187.webm?t=1793816081" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/5109460/extras/d576ce242c64351224ec499d573cc187.mp4?t=1793816081" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Pick up and play</h2><ul class="bb_ul"><li><p class="bb_paragraph" >Always there for you when you want to grab it</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" >Hides itself if you go fullscreen, or you can tuck it in a Magnetic Corner</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" >Seven balls so far: Pinky, Supernova, Tesla, Spongeball, Basketball, Sprout, and Ghost</p></li></ul><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p><p class="bb_paragraph" >I lost an embarrassing amount of that time just playing Desktop Ball, instead of making it... I hope it keeps you good company :)</p>
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Just remember to <i>trim it</i> once in a while.</p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Ghost, on the other hand, HAUNTS your desktop. <strong>Every throw leaves a little ghost behind</strong>, and if you squish it into a wall they just keep coming. 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I hope it keeps you good company :)</p>",
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