- Four New Workshop Items Published - 2 September 2026
Four more destructive tools available!As promised, there have been some more workshop items published! Get ready for some crazy more destruction that will challenge your desktop's resistance! I'm sure you'll smash it to the ground!Alien mineSome crazy scientists found this ancient alien technology and managed to replicate it. A desastrous tool indeed, following the target until collission - unleashing a beautiful but destructive detonation!Beleth the infernalRisen from the underworld, Beleth the infernal has gathered all their power to bring forth their wrath upon your desktop! This dark lord is so powerful, nothing should survive. A true competitor to the nuke. Dare to unleash Beleth on your desktop?FirewallNo one said a firewall is only purposed to protect ones network. This firewall has a more literal meaning. Unleashing it on your desktop will wipe out everything it approaches. Dare…
- Treasure Chest Workshop Item Published - 25 April 2026
Treasure Chest Workshop ItemAs I mentioned in the last news article, I want to put more focus on creating more workshop items. So, after a while, I released the first workshop item in 2026! ːsteamhappyːMeet the Treasure Chest!An old, mysterious chest, waiting to be placed on your screen... and unleashed... What will happen? Will it supply you with ancient riches that have long been forgotten? Or is it not what it seems to be?You'll find out eventually... ːsteamhappyːGet the treasure chest from the Steam Workshop:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3713516651Have fun!Kind regards
- Happy Birthday: 6 years on Steam - 14 February 2026
Hey guys,It's Casual Desktop Game's birthday today. Yay! 🥳Six years ago, Casual Desktop Game transitioned from Early Access to Full Release on Steam. I'm really happy how the game evolved in the last years. And I'm also very happy and thankful for your support though the years. Thank you! Altough, I haven't made any content ready for this year's birthday, I still wanted to post a news for this wonderful occasion. I hope you're all having a great weekend and valentines' day.There will definitely be more updates soon. Since the core game is in a very stable state, I want to focus more on community mods. This will constantly provide cool things to explore (and much madness to cause, hehe).Thank you all for flying with Casual Desktop Game!Kind Regards
- Casual Desktop Game December Patch 2025 - 15 December 2025
Patch 2025 is now live!The latest patch will introduce awesome gameplay updates that will further expand your gameplay experience. 🕹️ With this update you'll now be able to save / load scenes using the blueprint feature. This will allow you to create cool battle scenes that you can just quickly load and save, and alter whenever you want. A blueprint state will include all combat entities as well as the current selected background (if any). Another cool thing - that was also requested by the community - is the pause key toggle. This is especially useful if you want to take a longer look at a frozen state of your current destruction - and make better screenshots. Furthermore two more fireworks tools have been added, given that we're heading closer to new years eve: The cake and the mortar. Check out for yourself! See a full changelog below.Note: Since there have been changes applied to t…
- New update in the making - 2 November 2025
Hey guys,wow, it's been a while since the last game update. Fortunately, I've got great news for you: A new update is in the making!The next update will contain a feature which will enable a new level of enjoyable gameplay sessions:The Blueprint featureWith blueprints you can save all current spawned entities as well as the current selected background. This way you can create cool scenes that you can save and load whenever you want. There will be a special menu section "Blueprints" that allows you to load or remove blueprints. If you want to save a current blueprint state, you can just press S on your keyboard. Also blueprints consist of simple INI files, so you can share them easily.Another thing that I'm adding is the "entity pause" button. Just press P on your keyboard and all spawned entities stop processing until you press P again. This allows to create better screenshots or simply…
- New workshop items published - 23 June 2025
Hey guys,I've published two new workshop items.UFO laser guyIt's similar to the bee tool. However it flies from right to left on your screen on the Y coordinate where you click on your screen. It will permanently shoot laser bullets in a circular way while flying. UFO Laser GuyBarrelThe barrel guarantees for chain reactions! The barrel is highly explosive and you can trigger cool chain reactions with it. Try it out!BarrelHave fun!
- Happy 5-Years Anniversary - 14 February 2025
Today Casual Desktop Game celebrates its 5th year on Steam! When I published the game 5 years ago, I didn't expect it to become as popular as it is today. But I'm very happy that this fan remake is so well recieved by its community. A huge thank you to everyone who supports the game - whether it's playing, upvoting, commenting, reviewing or even recommending it. Here is to another 5 years! And beyond! Let's celebrate by smashing some virtual desktops and upload some screenshots! Happy destruction!
- Hotfix update & new workshop items - 30 December 2024
Hey guys, I've just published an update to the 2025 upgrade version with some changes: Fixed that some decals would not be shown Fixed some broken guns New tool: Cluster Grenade! Check it out ;-) There are also two new workshop items added by me: Potato Masher: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3395271240 Thompson SMG: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3395381789 Have fun and I wish you a happy new year!
- Casual Desktop Game Update 2025 - 16 December 2024
Hey fellow desktop destroyers! I am with great pleasure to announce that the big update of Casual Desktop Game for 2025 is now ready and published! I know that I originally wanted to wait for 14th of February, but this update is too big and important to postpone when it is already ready! So, that's why I've published the update just now! First of all I want to thank everyone who has been so supportive of this small retro project. I am aware of all the nice people upvoting any news I post, commenting on news I post and simply just playing the game! The game wouldn't be where it is now with all you guys! You have kept me motivated to improve the game and thus I am pleased to provide you with the update 2025! You deserve this great update! Take it as a christmas gift. ;-) Now what has actually changed? Fireworks tool was greatly improved! It's now a damageable tool and creates huge varying…
- Sneak Peek of the new Fireworks tool - 1 December 2024
Hey guys, in the light of the upcoming anniversary update, I figured I wanted to share a nice change with you all. One of the cool updates also affects the fireworks tool, which is included by default within the game. Until now the tool was, frankly, very boring and unspectacularly. But not anymore. I improved the fireworks tool greatly and I believe that you will like it, too. At least I hope so. :) Honestly before the update, I considered removing the fireworks tool from the game, because I really found it bad and was afraid it could put a bad light on the game. I really wanted to improve it for a long time, but it was hard to find any suitable sprites. At best I wanted to have a complete animation as a spritesheet for various fireworks explosions, but that did not work out without financial involvement. BUT fortunately I eventually went a different path for the improvement: I used so…
- Upgrade Guide: Upgrade your tools until February 14th, 2025 - 15 November 2024
Hey guys, as already mentioned earlier, the next update will contain some breaking changes for the tools API and thus as a mod developer you will need to update your tools in order to let them keep being functional. I've just published an upgrade guide that will help you updating your mods. Please read it carefully if you have published mods to the workshop and update your contributions accordingly! Link to guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3366108118 If you have any questions, please comment here or create a topic in the discussion section. Kind Regards
- [Mods] Upcoming updates to the API - 3 November 2024
Hey there, good news! The update for February 14th, 2025 is almost done. This update will be a celebration of 5 years of Casual Desktop Game on Steam. Due to this update, there were some changes to the Tools API, specifically two new methods were added to the IScriptedEntity interface that need to be implemented by classes that implement that interface. Here are the two new methods: //Can be used to overwrite the current position with the given position void SetPosition(const Vector& in) //Can be used to overwrite the current rotation with the given rotation void SetRotation(float fRotation) Altough the new update is not yet published, you can already update your mods accordingly. Furthermore there will be the following new API functions added: //Get the current global volume int32 S_GetCurrentVolume() //Returns the absolute path to the tools directory string GetToolsPath() //Can be use…
- Approaching the 5 years anniversairy - 30 October 2024
Hey guys, it's been a while since the last news or updates were published. Sorry about that! I'm very busy with various projects, BUT I've made quite an extensive list of updates planned for Casual Desktop Game! The year 2025 is approaching and with it also February 14th... This means 5 years of Casual Desktop Game on Steam! That's why the next update is planned for this historical date - to celebrate 5 years of the Casual Desktop Game full version! Also if you want, feel free to follow the new Mastodon profile for the game: https://mastodon.social/@casual_desktop_game New screenshots published by the Community will also be posted there. It's better than Twitter and Instagram. Don't miss it. Kind Regards
- Backgrounds feature and Mastodon channel - 2 June 2024
Hey there, It's been a while since the last news were posted. So here are some small news. Did you already notice the backgrounds feature? You can set custom backgrounds ingame. This can expand your gaming experience further. Imagine having a battlefield background for your next tank battle? Or a nostalgic background from the old Windows XP era? All that is possible. You can obtain some backgrounds from the official Casual Desktop Game website. It is planned to also integrate the backgrounds feature with Steam Workshop, but this might take a while. We do also have a Mastodon account now. It's basically a bot that occassionally posts screenshots of the game. Feel free to follow us there: https://mastodon.social/@casual_desktop_game Also we still do maintain a Twitter account: https://x.com/casualdeskgame Kind regards
- Happy New Year Update - 3 February 2023
Hey guys, I've just published a new update for Casual Desktop Game! Changes include: Performance improvements: The game should now run with better performance Workshop item update fix: There was a bug that prevented updating existing Workshop items. It's now resolved Async news content: The news content is now fetched asynchronously Some other minor improvements Hope you have much fun with the game! Please let me know if there are any problems with this new update. Kind Regards
- New Workshop items published - 12 September 2022
Hey there, I've just published two more official Workshop items: The mine and the shotgun The mine will initiate if something comes too close to it. It then beeps a few times and then explodes, damaging all nearby entities. The shotgun is a weapon that causes huge damage by many bullets in the range where you shot to. Subscribe to the mine item: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2862300107 Subscribe to the shotgun item: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2862299529 Have fun! Kind regards
- Twitter feed for screenshots and tool information database - 23 July 2022
Hey guys, did you already notice our Twitter account? On our Twitter account screenshots from Casual Desktop Game are posted once per day. So, if you have uploaded a screenshot to the Steam Community then it might get posted on Twitter. Also if you are using Twitter and want to see screenshots of Casual Desktop Game occassionally then you might want to follow the account. Link: https://twitter.com/casualdeskgame Also now there is a page on the offical CDG homepage where you can get information about all the official tools available both inbound and via Workshop. Link: https://www.casual-desktop-game.com/tools Thanks again for flying with Casual Desktop Game! Kind regards PS: It is planned to release new tools during next month. Stay tuned!
- New tool 'sidelaser' released - 31 March 2022
Hey guys, I've just published a new tool to the Workshop: The Sidelaser. Just select the tool and click anywhere on the screen (doesn't matter where). Then two laser guns will hover from top to bottom on left and right side and shoot laser bullets in the aimed direction. When collided on combat or other entities they will get hit. You can subscribe to the tool from the Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2787452378 Have fun with the tool! Kind regards
- New game homepage - 22 March 2022
Hey guys, The domain of the official game homepage changed. Instead of a .net domain it is now a .com domain. Why? Because many products have a .com domain even if they are for free. Also according to certain SEO blog posts, .com might be ranked better than .net. So, the new homepage is: https://www.casual-desktop-game.com/ Of course the game will always remain 100% free! Kind regards
- December present - 5 December 2021
Hey guys! Here is some neat december present for you before x-mas. I published three new tools to the Steam Workshop. They are combat entities: 1) Alien Infantry An alien infantry entity that fires bazooka missiles torwards its opponents. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673432035 2) Alien fighter A common alien fighter ship that shoots laser bullets towards its opponents. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673496637 3) Alien Giant A giant alien battleship / mother ship that fires lasers, rockets and electric bolts towards its opponents. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673492580 Have fun with the tools! Please report any bugs. Kind regards
