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Farm legendary loot, capture enemies as minions, and build powerful heroes while Deskrawl runs at the bottom of your desktop. Upgrade your town and take on tougher challenges.
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How to Fix Deskrawl Stuck on Loading Screen and Crashes
Troubleshoot Deskrawl stuck on loading screen errors with tested fixes for Steam Cloud sync, overlay conflicts, graphics drivers, and file integrity.
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Steam Buying Guide: Price, Classes, and Specs
Thinking of buying Deskrawl Steam? Discover its launch price, class mechanics, system requirements, and how the idle ARPG market integration works.
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Steam Market Guide: How Trading & Reins Work
Learn how the Deskrawl Steam Market works, from trading legendary reins to online mode rules and Steam Wallet earnings. Discover what items you can sell.
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Unstoppable Gauntlets: Stats, Builds, & Drops
Discover Deskrawl Unstoppable Gauntlets stats, armor scaling, drop sources, and community endgame builds to beat tough bosses like the Ancient Oak Treant.
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Legendary Farming Guide: Best Routes & Drops
Master Deskrawl legendary farming with proven Demon Skull routes, boss checkpoints, Item Find priorities, and tested endgame builds.
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Not Launching: Quick Fixes for Crashing on PC
Is Deskrawl not launching or crashing on startup? Follow our proven troubleshooting guide to fix display scaling, Steam conflicts, and startup errors.
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Review: Is This Desktop Idle ARPG Worth Buying?
Read our honest Deskrawl review to see if this Diablo-inspired desktop idle ARPG is worth your money, covering classes, loot, Steam market trading, and grind.
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Steam Charts: Player Count and Launch Stats
Track Deskrawl Steam charts, concurrent player count, peak activity trends, and market engagement since its launch. Discover the latest live metrics.
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How to Deskrawl Sell Loot: Vendors, Market & Auto-Sell
Learn how to Deskrawl sell loot using town vendors, auto-sell filters, and the player marketplace to maximize your gold and bag space.
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Ancient Oak Treant Boss Guide: Builds & Loot
Defeat the Deskrawl Ancient Oak Treant with proven Thorns builds, learn how to counter its 60k healing, and farm the Legendary Treant Rein.
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Your Deskrawl Journey
Steam Buying Guide
Learn the launch pricing, system specs, and class archetypes before installing.
Loot and Auto-Sell
Master town merchant bulk sales, carriage filters, and vendor buyback rules.
Optimal Farming Route
Follow the four-tier route from early gold zones up to the Ancient Oak Treant.
Warrior Talent Setups
Discover confirmed combat talent ranks, capstone synergies, and tank builds.
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Best Deskrawl Farming Route: Boss Progression Guide
Master the optimal Deskrawl farming route. Learn where to farm Demon Skulls, gear up against the Ogre, and defeat the Ancient Oak Treant.
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Legendary Farming Guide: Best Routes & Drops
Master Deskrawl legendary farming with proven Demon Skull routes, boss checkpoints, Item Find priorities, and tested endgame builds.
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Warrior Talents Guide: Best Builds & Skills
Master your build with our Deskrawl warrior talents guide. Discover confirmed talent nodes, ability mechanics, and top community setups to push higher stages.
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Best in Slot Guide: Top Endgame Gear Builds
Discover the verified Deskrawl best in slot gear, runes, and stat priorities for endgame Monk and Mage builds across Nightmare and Inferno.
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Unstoppable Gauntlets: Stats, Builds, & Drops
Discover Deskrawl Unstoppable Gauntlets stats, armor scaling, drop sources, and community endgame builds to beat tough bosses like the Ancient Oak Treant.
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Ancient Oak Treant Boss Guide: Builds & Loot
Defeat the Deskrawl Ancient Oak Treant with proven Thorns builds, learn how to counter its 60k healing, and farm the Legendary Treant Rein.
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Steam Market Guide: How Trading & Reins Work
Learn how the Deskrawl Steam Market works, from trading legendary reins to online mode rules and Steam Wallet earnings. Discover what items you can sell.
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How to Deskrawl Sell Loot: Vendors, Market & Auto-Sell
Learn how to Deskrawl sell loot using town vendors, auto-sell filters, and the player marketplace to maximize your gold and bag space.
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Steam Charts: Player Count and Launch Stats
Track Deskrawl Steam charts, concurrent player count, peak activity trends, and market engagement since its launch. Discover the latest live metrics.
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Review: Is This Desktop Idle ARPG Worth Buying?
Read our honest Deskrawl review to see if this Diablo-inspired desktop idle ARPG is worth your money, covering classes, loot, Steam market trading, and grind.
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Steam Buying Guide: Price, Classes, and Specs
Thinking of buying Deskrawl Steam? Discover its launch price, class mechanics, system requirements, and how the idle ARPG market integration works.
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Not Launching: Quick Fixes for Crashing on PC
Is Deskrawl not launching or crashing on startup? Follow our proven troubleshooting guide to fix display scaling, Steam conflicts, and startup errors.
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How to Fix Deskrawl Stuck on Loading Screen and Crashes
Troubleshoot Deskrawl stuck on loading screen errors with tested fixes for Steam Cloud sync, overlay conflicts, graphics drivers, and file integrity.
Read moreThe Game at a Glance
What is Deskrawl?
Deskrawl: Idle ARPG is an indie idle action role-playing game developed by First Day Games and published alongside Gamersky Games. Built to run as a horizontal overlay along the bottom of your Windows desktop, it lets you level heroes, choose talents, and conquer bosses while working or browsing.
During a run, your hero auto-moves through stages, attacks enemies to generate resources, and triggers skills on cooldown. An accompanying minion pulls a carriage to collect loot and ores, while gold is spent in town to unlock vendors, upgrade gear, and purchase life skill automation.
Explore All Guides- Developer
- First Day Games
- Publisher
- First Day Games / Gamersky Games
- Platform
- Windows PC
- Genre
- Action / Adventure / Casual / Indie
- Players In-Game
- 28,058
- User Reviews
- 795
- Steam Achievements
- 37
- Release Date
- Sep 28, 2026
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Beginner Guide
Get started with desktop idle combat, loot collection, and hero progression. Combine equipment, abilities, and captured minions to develop your character.
Farm level 9 to 10 zones on auto-repeat to accumulate gold, configure your starter mount, and enable automatic selling.
Grind the Dark Elf Mage in Northhill Crypt around level 16 to 18 to stockpile Demon Skulls, iron, and gold ore.
Spend Demon Skulls to run the level 20 Ogre boss until your hero equips a baseline set of item level 20 legendary armor.
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Push into Kings Woods South and defeat the Ancient Oak Treant by mitigating burst damage and overcoming its massive regeneration.
Minions and Boss Capture
Enemies and bosses can become your minions. Discover their loot-cart duties, passive buffs, and special combat abilities.
Equipped minions pull your cart to store collected stage loot, ores, and gold during active runs.
Defeating specific world and sector bosses grants a chance to drop rare permanent reins that bind or trade as companions.
Tamed companions provide unique combat enhancements, such as armor boosts, life on hit, or healing actives.
Loot and Equipment
Farm legendary equipment to strengthen your hero. Patch 1.0.0g adjusted equipment drops to give each equipment slot an equal chance, addressing the Hunter's lower weapon drop frequency.
Heroes equip items across twelve gear slots alongside socketable gems and multi-piece class rune sets.
Equipment scales across Common, Uncommon, Rare, Legendary, Ancient Legendary, and endgame Black Mist variants.
High-tier items provide build-defining triggers like massive thorns reflection or stacking armor on ability hits.
Town Progression
Gather resources to expand your town and unlock new NPCs. Their services open additional ways to strengthen your hero.
Spend stage gold and gathered materials to rebuild town services like the General Merchant, Blacksmith, and Alchemist.
Invest gold into the town Life Skills tree to increase wagon storage capacity and unlock automated loot dumping.
Configure town vendor auto-sell rules to immediately convert offloaded low-tier items into gold upon arrival.
Mythic Realms
Challenge your hero with timed trials and escalating difficulty tiers in Mythic Realms. Push deeper to earn better rewards.
Reaching higher difficulties like Nightmare and Inferno scales all stage enemies and drops up to level 70.
Endgame difficulties drop gear at item level 700 to 850 with increased base armor and higher attribute caps.
Advanced realms yield exclusive Divine equipment drops and seven-affix Black Mist items for Lady Shadow rerolling.
Steam Market Trading
Trade with other players through the Steam Market. Supported item categories include equipment, materials, and minions.
Only characters started in Online Mode can list tradeable item drops on the Steam Community Market.
The in-game Auction House facility unlocks at level 5 for 500 gold to facilitate market transactions.
The public marketplace supports boss minion reins, high-tier Black Mist pieces, and select endgame crafting materials.
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Successful community market transactions deposit credit directly into your Steam Wallet balance.
Patch Notes
Follow changes to loot drops, class abilities, storage, and performance. Recent updates include bulk storage controls, Monk ability fixes, and improvements to Steam connectivity.
Patch 0.1.9 introduced a shared shop Buyback tab that preserves the last eight sold items for repurchasing.
Patch V0.1.10 expanded Life Skills nodes with automatic carriage dumping and loot selling when returning to town.
Pressing the L key over an item in your bag or stash locks it to prevent accidental bulk sales or salvaging.
System Requirements
Compare the minimum and recommended Windows PC specifications before playing. Check processor, memory, graphics, and storage requirements.
Deskrawl requires a 64-bit installation of Windows 10 for both minimum and recommended configurations.
The game demands an Intel Core i3 with 4 GB RAM minimum, recommending an Intel Core i5 with 16 GB RAM.
Supported setups require an NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 or AMD Radeon R7 240, recommending a GTX 660 or R9 270.
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The installation requires 5 GB of available storage space minimum, with 10 GB space recommended.
Quick Answers
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the core gameplay loop of Deskrawl?
Your character automatically battles along stages while a minion cart gathers drops, allowing you to return to town to sell junk, upgrade equipment, and invest in Life Skills.
How do you challenge major bosses in Deskrawl?
Challenging dedicated gold boss stages requires spending consumable Demon Skulls collected from preceding stages and silver mini-boss encounters.
Does Deskrawl support player trading?
Yes, characters created in Online Mode can sell eligible items like boss-dropped minion reins on the Steam Community Market for Steam Wallet credit.
What character classes can you play in Deskrawl?
Deskrawl features four playable classes: Warrior, Sorcerer, Monk, and Hunter, with account slots available for all four.
How does the Deskrawl carriage auto-sell feature work?
Through minion carriage settings and Life Skills, you can filter pickup rarities and configure low-tier common or uncommon gear to automatically convert into gold.
What should you do if Deskrawl gets stuck on the loading screen?
Common solutions include overriding high DPI scaling in Windows compatibility settings, verifying game files on Steam, and temporarily disabling Steam Cloud synchronization.
Where will you start?
Start with a getting-started guide, compare hero builds, or explore gear, bosses, and progression.
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Not Launching: Quick Fixes for Crashing on PC
Is Deskrawl not launching or crashing on startup? Follow our proven troubleshooting guide to fix display scaling, Steam conflicts, and startup errors.
Read more
Best Deskrawl Farming Route: Boss Progression Guide
Master the optimal Deskrawl farming route. Learn where to farm Demon Skulls, gear up against the Ogre, and defeat the Ancient Oak Treant.
Read more
How to Deskrawl Sell Loot: Vendors, Market & Auto-Sell
Learn how to Deskrawl sell loot using town vendors, auto-sell filters, and the player marketplace to maximize your gold and bag space.
Read more
How to Fix Deskrawl Stuck on Loading Screen and Crashes
Troubleshoot Deskrawl stuck on loading screen errors with tested fixes for Steam Cloud sync, overlay conflicts, graphics drivers, and file integrity.
Read more
Steam Market Guide: How Trading & Reins Work
Learn how the Deskrawl Steam Market works, from trading legendary reins to online mode rules and Steam Wallet earnings. Discover what items you can sell.
Read more
Ancient Oak Treant Boss Guide: Builds & Loot
Defeat the Deskrawl Ancient Oak Treant with proven Thorns builds, learn how to counter its 60k healing, and farm the Legendary Treant Rein.
Read more
Warrior Talents Guide: Best Builds & Skills
Master your build with our Deskrawl warrior talents guide. Discover confirmed talent nodes, ability mechanics, and top community setups to push higher stages.
Read more
Steam Charts: Player Count and Launch Stats
Track Deskrawl Steam charts, concurrent player count, peak activity trends, and market engagement since its launch. Discover the latest live metrics.
Read more
Steam Buying Guide: Price, Classes, and Specs
Thinking of buying Deskrawl Steam? Discover its launch price, class mechanics, system requirements, and how the idle ARPG market integration works.
Read more
Review: Is This Desktop Idle ARPG Worth Buying?
Read our honest Deskrawl review to see if this Diablo-inspired desktop idle ARPG is worth your money, covering classes, loot, Steam market trading, and grind.
Read more