Grimoire Garden: A Taskbar Tale is a cozy, second-screen taskbar game that perfectly blends idle farming, satisfying progression, and fast-paced typing combat. Designed to live comfortably at the bottom of your screen, it turns your desktop into a living magical sanctuary. Whether you are working, studying, or watching a stream, your garden grows alongside you without ever interrupting your workflow.
Join your loyal magic apprentice, Pip, and your feathered friend, Sparrow Jack Junior, to cultivate enchanted crops, fend off greedy goblins, and build the ultimate magical treasury!
Farming on the Edge of Your Screen Start with a single taskbar planter and invest your hard-earned gold to expand your garden. Plant magical seeds, watch them progress through 4 growth stages, and harvest them for profit. The game is fully aware of your desktop environment. It scales dynamically, detects when your taskbar is set to auto-hide (smoothly sliding up and down with it), and lets you choose exactly which monitor your garden blooms on.
⏳ Meaningful Offline Progress & Upgrades Your garden respects your time. Invest gold and harvested crops into a deep skill tree to unlock permanent, powerful buffs. Contributed crops cannot be sold, but they grant massive improvements like the Market License (+25% Sell Value), Double Pack (25% chance for double harvests), or Turbo Roots (+80% Growth Speed). Need to close the game? Unlock the Scarecrow for offline growth, or reach the ultimate Dance Powder upgrade so your plants grow and water themselves entirely while your PC is turned off!
⚔️ Seamless "No-Spacebar" Typing Combat Goblins will try to steal your crops! Defeat them using our seamless Typing Combat. Just type the magical words above their heads to instantly cast spells (no spacebar needed!).
Find Grimoires: Unlock higher difficulty levels to face tougher goblins with significantly better loot drop chances.
The Skeleton Minigame: Trigger an epic boss fight! Deflect the Skeleton's magical bone projectile back and forth up to 20 times. Based on your skill, you will earn "Bone Meal" (Tier 1 to 20). This is a powerful Fever Mode item that massively accelerates your garden's growth.
Daily Quests & The Bonus Stash Keep things fresh with 3 Daily Quests (you can reroll up to 3 times a day). Completing quests rewards you with temporary, powerful perks like Caffeine Rush (+150% growth speed for 2 hours) or Auto-Watering. These perks are stored in your 9-slot "Bonus Stash". Drag and drop them to activate them whenever you need a boost. Complete all 3 daily quests to earn a guaranteed max-level Tier 20 Bone Meal!
Jack Jr.: From Egg to Legendary Companion Before Sparrow Jack Junior becomes your loyal companion, you need to help him hatch! It all begins with a mysterious egg sitting on the edge of your screen. Every global keystroke and mouse click you make outside the game (while working or chatting) helps crack the shell. Once hatched, your continued activity levels him up. After every ascension, his XP resets, but his loot pool expands! Level him up to max level (11) so he can drop the rarest, most valuable seeds, including the legendary Sunflower.
Skill-Based Wheel of Fortune Feeling lucky? Use a free spin or earn Wheel Tokens from daily quests to spin the Wheel of Fortune. Time it perfectly with your own skill to reliably snag the exact rare seed you need for your next big upgrade!
Stats, Achievements & Completionism
Love numbers? Grimoire Garden tracks everything: total global keystrokes, mouse clicks, gold earned, specific goblin types defeated, and exact crop yields.
59 Steam Achievements: Challenge yourself to unlock them all! From your very first sprout to the ultimate Platinum Achievement, there is a rewarding milestone for every stage of your journey. Flex your efficiency and watch your numbers go up while you work.
⌨️ Distraction-Free Workflow & Hotkeys Grimoire Garden is built to never get in your way. Hide the UI completely for ultimate Zen, or control the entire game without breaking your focus using global hotkeys:
Ctrl + Alt + I: The "Boss is coming!" panic button. Instantly hides the entire game + Taskbar Icon and pauses everything. Perfect for when your manager suddenly walks by your desk!
Ctrl + Alt + F: Toggle Focus (Bring the game to the front or send it back).
Alt + W: Quick-Watering! Hover your mouse over a plant and press this to instantly water it. (Fun Fact: Your watering can upgrades passively just by using it. Reach Level 4 to fully water a plant from 0 to 100% in a single click).
Alt + G: Cycle through Game Modes (Cozy, Combat, or Auto Mode).
Alt + B / P / Esc: Manage your Inventory, pause the game, or close panels instantly.
Grow your garden, sharpen your typing skills, and bring a little magic to your workday. Welcome to Grimoire Garden!
