Stop! Taco
A cute little friend who lives on your desktop
He wanders, pranks, and takes your screen when you goof off too long.
Click Taco, or right-click him
This is how Taco plays
Taco in these clips is drawn by the same code as the program. The desktop and windows are staged.
Taco is watching
Goof off or lounge around too long, and Taco confiscates your screen.
- Slack watch: browse too long, "Get to work"
- Rest watch: use your PC too long, "Take a break"
- After 15 min to 2 hr, he takes it for 30 sec to 5 min
- He mutters warnings before it happens
- Works on portrait monitors too
- Urgent? Hold Esc for 3 sec
- You can turn it off
Hold Esc for 3 seconds or hit Close to end it right away.
Watching a video? He moves over
When your browser fills the screen, Taco heads to the corner and builds sandcastles. Flag, applause, smash, build again. If you just sit and watch, he dozes off next to it.
Feed Taco
Pick a snack from the right-click menu, drop it, and he walks over and eats it. Feed him too often and he kicks it away.
Taco the prankster
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Climbs your windows
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Snatches your cursor
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Runs off with icons
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Naps when bored
Every prank can be turned off, and moved icons go back with one click in the menu. Turn on Devil Taco mode and he grows little horns and gets a lot meaner.
20 tricks
He does them when he is bored, or when you ask.
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Concert
Crab on drums, jellyfish on keys, pufferfish on bass
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Guitar
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Sing
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Roll
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Folder juggling
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Sandcastle
Smashes it when done
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Giant mode
Up to 500%
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Phone
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Sunglasses
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Coffee
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Dance
10 dances in the style of trending moves
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Bubble gum
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Reading
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Stretch
Octopus-only
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Ear float
Dumbo octopuses swim with their ears
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Coconut hide
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Squish
No bones, goes flat
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Glass splat
Shows his suckers, slides down
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Camouflage
Turns the color of what is behind him
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Ink jet
How to play with him
- Click
- Pet Hearts pop out. Three clicks and he talks.
- Drag
- Pick up Throw him hard and he gets dizzy.
- Double-click
- Chat Opens the chat box.
- Mouse wheel
- Giant mode Grows to 500%, then shrinks back.
- 7 fast clicks
- Ink jet Puffs ink and zooms off.
- Right-click
- Dial menu Feed, Play and Settings pop out around him.
Five colors
Talk to him
Double-click to open the chat box. Say "dance" and he actually dances.
The chat AI only runs while the chat box is open. Ollama or a Claude API key work too.
- What. Make it quick.
No worries
Your files stay put
Icons only move around, and one menu click puts them back.
Watching stays on your PC
Window titles are only checked for videos, never saved or sent.
Online in two cases only
Installing the chat AI, and chatting with your own Claude API key.
Everything turns off
Pranks, chatter, sound, icons and watching each have a switch.
Dress him up
DLCs add outfits and a home. Grab them on Steam after launch.
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[DLC1] Taco's House & Music Player
Put a house on your desktop and he moves in. Play music and he dances inside. Hide the house and the music keeps going while he sings along.
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[DLC2] Singing King Taco Sound Pack
An extra album for the music player and his concerts.
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[DLC3] Taco's Closet Skin Pack
23 costumes and 3 colors. Each costume changes the concert stage, too.
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Founders Edition
Only for Tumblbug backers, included in every reward. Put the crown on and the concert moves to a royal palace stage.
In the Tumblbug “Founders + Taco Butler DLC” reward, Special Thanks credits put your name in the game credits, sparkling inside a fancy frame. It also comes with a moving Taco wallpaper for PC and phone, a seamless 15-second loop.
Take Taco home
Getting ready for release.
- Windows
- English · 한국어
Questions
He took my screen and it is urgent!
Hold Esc for 3 seconds and it ends right away. He comes back in 10 minutes, though.
Can I turn off just the watching?
Yes. Right-click › Settings › Taco watch. You can also pick slack watch or rest watch there.
How do I turn off Devil mode?
Feed him, click him four times in a row, or switch it off in settings.
He will not eat.
Feed him more than three times in 10 minutes and he is too full. Try again later.
Does he eat takoyaki?
Try it yourself. Watch out for ink.
Will it run on a low-end PC?
The chat AI only runs while you chat, and it picks a lighter model for smaller PCs.
Mac or Linux?
Windows only.
Why "Taco"?
Tako means octopus in Japanese.