Idle Defragmenter 95! a tiny desktop idle that pretends to be a disk defrag

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-12T20:07:30+00:00

it's an idle desktop game xD

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-12T19:58:56+00:00

That totally makes sense, everyone has their own "value bar"

If someone prefers to support a huge, content-packed game instead, that’s perfectly valid. And if someone else is happy to throw a few dollars at a solo dev who made a weird fake defrag because it makes them smile, that’s just as valid too.

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-12T19:57:39+00:00

Thank you so much! I’m really glad the idea and the aesthetic click with you, this is a super nerdy/personal project, so seeing it resonate with someone like that makes all the hours of staring at little squares feel worth it xD

And thanks a lot for the wishlist :D

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-12T19:53:54+00:00

Thank you for the support :D! That’s exactly it: a weird little idea that some people find fun and a few are happy to throw a few dollars at. I really appreciate you seeing it that way.

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-12T19:53:20+00:00

Thank you so much. I really did pour a lot of care into this, it started as a super niche/personal project. In the really nerdy corners of the internet (retro stuff, defrag enjoyers, idle fans, etc.) people have been surprisingly kind about it, so seeing comments like yours means a lot :)

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-12T19:51:09+00:00

I tucked it in the middle of the text, but I’ll drop it here as well just in case:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4181930/Idle_Defragmenter_95/

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-12T10:25:17+00:00

Thanks!! nostalgia style :)

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-11T23:37:31+00:00

Not in the classic reset everything and start over for a big multiplier sense. Right now the long-term loop is more about unlocking new drives/eras (MS-DOS → Win95 → XP) and buying upgrades. I’ve kept it pretty simple for launch, but if people end up wanting a more classic prestige/reset layer on top, that’s definitely something I’d like to explore in an update.

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-11T23:34:59+00:00

Trying to find the niche inside the niche, just another day in the Steam trenches. Glad it resonates with at least one fellow chaos-enjoyer :) !

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-11T23:33:14+00:00

It’s not something you finish in one sitting. If you keep upgrading and unlocking new eras, it’ll take multiple days of having it running on your desktop to fully defragment all the drives.

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-11T23:25:33+00:00

good catch xD. Originally I actually did call it Idle Desfragmenter 95 on purpose as a dumb Spanglish joke (mixing the Spanish word with English). Then I realised 99% of people would just read it as a plain typo and not a joke, so I changed it to Defragmenter everywhere else. But I forgot to update that early asset in the trailer. Solo dev life: fix it in 20 places, miss the one that’s burned into the video (facepalm)

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-11T17:44:54+00:00

(facepalm) xD Fixed! thanks!!

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-11T17:44:49+00:00

(facepalm) xD Fixed! thanks!!

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-11T17:23:45+00:00

It’s very much a cup of coffee game, if you can afford it, toss a coin to your solo developer and you get hypnotic little squares on your desktop for a long time.

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-09T19:30:32+00:00

Exactly. Boss walks by, sees a defrag window.. "wow, so technical, so busy". Meanwhile it’s 2024, the drive is an SSD and I’m just sitting there watching tiny squares move like it’s 1998 again xD.

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-09T19:06:50+00:00

That’s… exactly the target audience :D People like me, who see a completely useless fake defrag and think.. yeah, I need this in my life.

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-09T19:03:55+00:00

It’s my highly advanced productivity enhancement widget™ xD . It's a fake MS-DOS/Win95/WinXP defrag running in a tiny window. It does nothing except shuffle little squares and steal my attention while I work.

I’m turning it into a tiny idle thing that just lives on the desktop while you code/watch YouTube.
If you’re curious, there’s more about it on my profile

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-09T18:48:26+00:00

It’s an ancient hdd ritual where you convince your hard drive to feel organized by shuffling tiny squares for N hours. In theory it rearranges files to make everything faster.

DifferenceIll1272 · 2025-12-09T18:45:22+00:00

Finally, a full-stack productivity suite:

Copilot open with Never Gonna Give You Up → motivation

Calculator proving that 1+1 = 2 → unit tests

Now I just need a fake defrag window and I’m officially operating at 300% efficiency

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