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.

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.<h2 class="bb_tag" >A TINY CRIME EMPIRE IN YOUR TASKBAR</h2>Run jobs from a compact bottom-screen strip designed to be glanced at, not babysat.<video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/e4065d5305d2191a9051b5bb906ccee8.poster.avif?t=1782682874" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/e4065d5305d2191a9051b5bb906ccee8.webm?t=1782682874" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/e4065d5305d2191a9051b5bb906ccee8.mp4?t=1782682874" type="video/mp4"></video><h2 class="bb_tag" >PASSIVE PROGRESS, ACTIVE DECISIONS</h2>Your crew works in the background, but the important moments are quick choices with real consequences.<video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/126cf788dfa3aea32e56a663c28db5b3.poster.avif?t=1782682874" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/126cf788dfa3aea32e56a663c28db5b3.webm?t=1782682874" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/126cf788dfa3aea32e56a663c28db5b3.mp4?t=1782682874" type="video/mp4"></video><h2 class="bb_tag" >DIRTY MONEY AND CLEAN MONEY</h2>Earn dirty cash from jobs, then launder it through suspiciously successful front businesses.<video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/58cfba180c71e8a2964994aab7dafa12.poster.avif?t=1782682874" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/58cfba180c71e8a2964994aab7dafa12.webm?t=1782682874" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/58cfba180c71e8a2964994aab7dafa12.mp4?t=1782682874" type="video/mp4"></video><h2 class="bb_tag" >CREW WITH PROBLEMS</h2>Recruit criminals with traits, loyalty, stress, heat, injuries, rivalries, and questionable backstories.<video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/e9345836c672920e36de54056f6c29d0.poster.avif?t=1782682874" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/e9345836c672920e36de54056f6c29d0.webm?t=1782682874" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/e9345836c672920e36de54056f6c29d0.mp4?t=1782682874" type="video/mp4"></video><h2 class="bb_tag" >HEAT, EVIDENCE, AUDITS, AND RAIDS</h2>Push too hard and investigators start building a case. Burn evidence, bribe officials, hide crew, or sacrifice a front business to survive.<video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/d1d569dc25b918b7f5821112bc229918.poster.avif?t=1782682874" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/d1d569dc25b918b7f5821112bc229918.webm?t=1782682874" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/d1d569dc25b918b7f5821112bc229918.mp4?t=1782682874" type="video/mp4"></video><h2 class="bb_tag" >PANIC HIDE MODE</h2>Instantly collapse your criminal operation into a very innocent-looking productivity strip.<video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/94b9ee301baadd91ccd6230b807da005.poster.avif?t=1782682874" width=1170 height=658 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/94b9ee301baadd91ccd6230b807da005.webm?t=1782682874" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4853610/extras/94b9ee301baadd91ccd6230b807da005.mp4?t=1782682874" type="video/mp4"></video>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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