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Stress Relief

Shitshow Interactive · Published by Shitshow Interactive · Official site ↗

Positive — 83% positive (48 reviews) · 11 achievements

Last updated 28 Sept 2026

Stress Relief is an idler game, which comes with a reliable companion, the Slime! Are you bored? Are you stressed because of work? Come and destroy your desktop with the tools included! Play, earn Pixel Points and get drops every 25 minutes!

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Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Free To Play, Strategy, Casual · 2025 · More free games

Embark on a unique idle adventure as you manage stress and earn rewards in Stress Relief. With the help of the Slime companion, turn your desktop into chaos every 25 minutes for Pixel Points and more.

About this game

Stress Relief is an idler game, which comes with a reliable companion, the Slime!
Earn Pixel Points by moving your mouse.
Get skins and accessories every 25 minutes.
Duel other players and win items!

Item drop chances*:

  • Common: 90%

  • Uncommon: 9%

  • Rare: 0.9%

  • Epic: 0.1%

  • Legendary: 1 in 420.000

* Subject to change

Features:

Slime companion
Slime skins and accessories
Stress Relief tools, from the classic Desktop Destroyer game
Workshop support for the tools, modding, make your own chaotic weapons! (Not included in the demo)
Windows, Linux, Mac support

Art by Wurrad

System Requirements

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Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel i5 5200 or AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Any
  • Storage: 100 MB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 11
  • Processor: Intel i5 5200 or AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Any
  • Storage: 200 MB available space

Supported Languages

English, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, German

Latest news

  • Patch NotesOfficial

    Compact Update

    Happy New Year!For the first update of this year, i'm introducing 2 new small features:Weekly Leaderboard: The old leaderboard has been renamed to All Time Leaderboard and I introduced a new top list for weekly wins.Compact Mode: The new default style is a smaller PP counter bar. The old one can be reenabled in the settings menu under the "Compact style" option.Compact style vs Old styleWeekly leaderboard
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  • Patch NotesOfficial

    Friends update

    Major changes:Added Discord activity editor: If you have activities enabled on discord (formerly known Rich Presence), you can set up a custom message and image in the editor menuAdded Friends lobbies: You can now invite your friends to idle together. When you and your friends join lobbies, your friends slime will appear on your screen.Added a new item slot, the Pet: In the future i will add more animals and objects to this slot. For now there is only 1 item available, the Blue Slime, which is gifted to players for free for trying the Friends feature.** Joining a lobby with a friend will automatically add the item to your inventory. It might take up to a minute for steam to process this.Minor changes:Item exchange now correctly displays the new item you get for exchanging itemsRock-Paper-Scissors now needs 2 wins to win the match instead of 3Added a daily rewards counter so players can see how much items they can claim by winning duelsFix scaling issue on MacOSFix audio slider value not saving on exitThe Discord Activity editor (Rich Presence)The item exchange feature now displays the new item after exchangingThe friends featureThe Pet slot and the Blue Slime pet
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  • Patch NotesOfficial

    Small Update

    Added a new UI indicator that shows how many of your 3 daily duel rewards are still available to claimFixed volume settings value not saving on exit
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  • AnnouncementsOfficial

    Stress Relief - Now Available for Free

    Stress Relief is finally released! Thanks to everyone who played the demo and gave a try to my game.DisclaimerSteam does not offer a solution to transfer items from demo to the full release, so your demo items will be gone sadly. To make up for this, i have made 2 unique items which will be automatically handed out to people who played the demo for at least 15 minutes. The 2 unique and exclusive items are the Golden Skin and Golden Ears. If you would like to move your distance stats from the demo to the full game, please contact me on discord.Feature list:The Slime desktop pet187 items which are tradeable on the Steam marketplace. You can get 1 item every 25 minutes.Exchange 8 items of the same quality to get a new item of a better quality11 languages available in the game (Please contact me on discord if you want the game translated to your language)11 achievements to unlock6 default Desktop Destroyer tools (Workshop support is coming soon)Rock-Paper-Scissors game to play against other players and win random items (unlimited games, only 3 items a day)Limited linux and macOS supportMultiple different themes to change how the UI looks according to your tasteEnable developer mode from the settings menu to access experimental features meant for testing and previewExperimental features:Friends: Create a lobby and invite your friends to play with you. They will appear on the screen with their own skin preset and everyone will be notified when someone opens an item. It is planned to help eachother claim items when someone is AFK.Discord Activity Editor: It is possible to set up your own custom discord status using this game. Here is a guide on how to set it up.Golden Skin and Golden Ears. Awarded to participants of the demo playtestDiscord Activity Editor previewIf you need help with anything or you found a bug please click the link below:Join our Discord server.
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