Luck be a Landlord on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.

Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder, deckbuilding and rogue-lite game developed and published by TrampolineTales.
Released on January 06th 2023 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 20 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Portugal, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, Bulgarian and Arabic.

It has received 10,497 reviews of which 9,810 were positive and 687 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Luck be a Landlord into these genres:

Roguelike Deckbuilder Deckbuilding Rogue-lite Strategy Procedural Generation Simulation Pixel Graphics Rogue-like Capitalism Resource Management Auto Battler Casual Management Singleplayer Indie 2D Retro Villain Protagonist Early Access Mouse only

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System requirements

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Windows

Processor: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 165 MB available space

MacOS

Processor: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 270 MB available space

Linux

Processor: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 185 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025

I’ve beaten the game all the way up to floor 10, and feel satisfied with this accomplishment up to now. Luck be a Landlord is casual fun, and for a casual price I think that’s pretty awesome. But it’s missing the X factor that makes me think it’s really special. This will probably be short since the game itself is very condensed. The premise is… completely nonsensical, but whatever. It took me until my 5th run or so before I even bothered to read the text. It’s irrelevant. The gameplay is simply two loops, one very miniature, and another bite-sized. You spin the slot machine, earn some amount of money, and you choose to add a symbol to it (or not). After a certain number of spins, you have to pay rent, get an item (different from a symbol), and then the next rent payment is even higher. Once you reach a high enough “floor”, you begin receiving essences after some of the rent payments, too. These are, at the risk of being overly simple, like temporary forms of the items, with usually greater (but time-limited) payoffs. This is everything you do in the game. The symbols themselves are not the most pleasing things to look at, but the thematic synergies are cute. Dwarves drink beer. With an item they can also smash ore. Billionaires synergize with wine and cheese. Divers collect aquatic type items and give permanently higher payouts after collecting them. It’s cutesy like this. It also does a very good job at showing you with a little animation and sound effect when the effect happens . I appreciate that as it’s a relatively common complaint of mine in other roguelike/lite games that these games are opaque. What prevents me from really loving this one is the stark contrast between a run feeling completely blessed by the gods, and a complete car wreck. And the best way to go about beating the game consistently, is the least satisfying way of doing so. The best way to go about beating the game is just simply to take whatever symbol and item best synergizes with what you have going on in your slot machine already. What this means is that playing best often means two things: 1) You finish with a hodge-podge of different good symbols and items, without a unifying theme and identity. 2) There’s not much looking forward to anything or building toward something. Some runs you will pick every club, spade, heart, and diamond, and you will be blessed by like 2 jokers to perfectly tie it together. But nothing you did before that moment you received the jokers helped you get them. Sometimes you’ll take every aquatic item there is, and then snag a diver who after a few rolls is already giving you 12 per spin. But again, nothing you did before that moment helped you snag the diver. More often than not, building toward a specific synergy will result in a loss because you never get the payoff. And why would you take the payoff before you built up the base? My personal recommendation for the game would be to have a system similar to the boons in [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145360/Hades/]Hades . In Hades you need certain boons before you can earn others. They don’t increase your odds at getting the boon, but there is a level of satisfaction to knowing you’re building toward your goal, so to speak. And I think Luck Be a Landlord would benefit from this, even if it meant the game’s difficulty had to be increased in conjunction. It’s not about difficulty as much as it is about satisfaction. The other limiters are things like a collection log, a list of run modifiers to toggle, among other things. There is a Steam Workshop, which I will readily admit I’ve yet to explore, but I will later. And maybe these things can be found there. In all likelihood they do exist there. And without developer effort, the workshop wouldn’t be there, and easy to use, so despite the fact the developer didn’t make the mods, they provided the framework. That deserves credit. Ultimately though, Luck be a Landlord is limited by its core build philosophy. It’s a fine game, and has a good feel of low stakes. The price point is low, and the gameplay is simple and cute. But it’s not one I’ll really remember or recommend above many other games, although the very affordable price on sales is noteworthy! 6.5/10

Jan. 2025

I have been playing this for far longer than I was expecting to, and I'm about to boot it up once again. A simple roguelike, but a very well-designed one. Also, based anti-landlord and anti-capitalist politics.

Jan. 2025

I picked this game up after becoming obsessed with Balatro, not knowing it was the inspiration for the game, and have already had the pleasure of winning once (took about 4 attempts). The gameplay is almost identical in the sense that you are "deckbuilding" a slot machine. The sounds and art are cute, it plays fast, and it's fun to watch. Worth it for a few hours of play if you need to scratch that same itch, and love slots, this is for you!

Dec. 2024

Very fun. I picked this up after hearing that Balatro was inspired by it. The inspiration is clear and has a similar appeal.

Nov. 2024

It's a slot machine rougelite. Deceptively simple, actually very challenging in practice. Very fun too. I've complained in the past about rougelites that make the player rely too heavily on RNG for their wins, and even though this games does that I'm not complaining this time. Why is that? Well, each game lasts ten or fifteen minutes if you win. If you lose, you probably lost at the start and less than five minutes of your life was taken by the game. Compare that to, say, Risk of Rain 2 where I can invest an hour or more of my life into a god run only to be killed instantly in a single second due to some bad luck or a glitch. It stings less to lose in Luck be a Landlord, and it makes it much more enjoyable enjoyable to keep replaying even if I go all night without a win.

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9.75€

9.1

9,810

687

Online players

186

Developer

TrampolineTales

Publisher

TrampolineTales

Release 06 Jan 2023

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