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Taskbar Syndicate

Run a tiny crime empire from your taskbar. Assign crooks to jobs, launder dirty money, manage heat, survive audits, and make terrible decisions while pretending to work.

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Low Signal Games
Publisher
Low Signal Games
Release
July 15, 2026
18 days ago
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About the Game

Taskbar Syndicate is a desktop idle crime-management game about building a tiny criminal empire at the bottom of your screen.

Assign little criminals, hackers, lookouts, smugglers, cleaners, fixers, and crooked accountants to jobs while you work, browse, or do something else. Jobs progress passively, but every few minutes something goes wrong.

An inspector asks for double. A driver gets boxed in. Marked bills show up. A rival offers a suspicious deal. Your accountant starts acting extremely normal.

Make one quick decision, take the consequences, and keep the syndicate running.

A TINY CRIME EMPIRE IN YOUR TASKBAR

Run jobs from a compact bottom-screen strip designed to be glanced at, not babysat.

PASSIVE PROGRESS, ACTIVE DECISIONS

Your crew works in the background, but the important moments are quick choices with real consequences.

DIRTY MONEY AND CLEAN MONEY

Earn dirty cash from jobs, then launder it through suspiciously successful front businesses.

CREW WITH PROBLEMS

Recruit criminals with traits, loyalty, stress, heat, injuries, rivalries, and questionable backstories.

HEAT, EVIDENCE, AUDITS, AND RAIDS

Push too hard and investigators start building a case. Burn evidence, bribe officials, hide crew, or sacrifice a front business to survive.

PANIC HIDE MODE

Instantly collapse your criminal operation into a very innocent-looking productivity strip.

Taskbar Syndicate is built for players who like idle games, management sims, compact strategy decisions, and funny emergent stories, but want something sharper than a pure number-go-up game.

Small screen. Big crimes. Bad decisions.

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