Zero-Day Syndicate
Run a hacker crew. Hire the talent, build the exploits, keep the heat off.
Zero-Day Syndicate is a management sim about the business of breaking in. From an isometric office you hire and train staff, develop custom exploits and frameworks, and run breaches, heists and botnets against real targets. The money has to be laundered, the heat has to be managed, and clout opens doors that cash never will. The operation grows through three technology eras — Web 2.0, crypto, then AI and quantum — and a prestige system carries what you learned into the next run.
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The most heavily tested thing in the portfolio: eight release candidates before anything reached a public track. One of them exists only because the game loop kept running while the phone was in a pocket.
- Release builds served no ads at all
- Fix contentRow: widthIn must precede fillMaxWidth
- Delay the interstitial so it never lands on the triggering tap
- Add store listing and gameplay screenshots
- Fix tutorial dead-end: reorder upgrade-before-hire + cheaper first room
- Hide tutorial popup while _root menu is open
- Unify all dialogs on NeonDialog + restyle the _root menu
- Design-system kit + fix Threat Map UI and background-audio bug
- Add AdMob ads: 3 rewarded placements + 1 throttled interstitial
- Store-readiness pass: rebrand menus, icon, perma-dark, release minify
- Balance pass: idle-income nerf, upkeep scale-from-0, safehouse raid teeth, chemistry buff
- Drive move cleanup: repoint hardcoded paths to D:, prune obsolete scripts
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