PeeCee Critters

PeeCee Critters is a desktop pet with a whole monster-collecting RPG inside it. A tiny pixel critter lives along the bottom of your screen — walking, napping and wandering your taskbar while you work.

Every so often a wild critter turns up beside your pet. Click your pet and the CritterScope opens over whatever you were doing. Win, and you're a step closer to recording it.

107 critters to find across 46 evolution lines and eleven types, with rare forms: a spectre after dark, a prism once in a very long while.

Walk a world of fourteen lands, each walled off by fog and held by an alpha. Bring three to the fight, and the alpha changes type halfway down. Every save gets its own continent.

Level them, evolve them, and earn rare finishes over hundreds of wins. 55 crests mark what you've done, and some of them are secret. Build up an island of your own.

Recolour the device and choose how big your pet is. Then put your best six on an animated brag card to send someone.

• No energy, timers, store, currency or ads

• No account, and it never goes online

• About 10 MB, made to be left running all day

Will it get in my way? It steps aside when a fullscreen game or video covers its screen, and Ctrl+Alt+H hides the pet whenever you like.

I have more than one monitor. Choose which display it lives on.

Keyboard or mouse? Either. Everything on the device can be clicked, and any button can have a key of your choosing.

Is there a demo? Yes: the first three lands (THE COMMONS, FOREST and SWAMP) and their alphas, free.