Luck be a Landlord and games like it

The WhatsNext verdict

Luck be a Landlord is an inventive, highly addictive foundation for the modern slot-machine roguelite. Play it if you enjoy finding strange synergies and watching a carefully tuned engine suddenly pay out enormous numbers.

What it does best

A slot-machine roguelite idea that changed the genre
Build synergies that make the machine explode with value
One more spin becomes an entire evening
A remarkably clean short-session roguelite

What might put you off

Heavy dependence on luck and early-run variance
Limited endgame depth and repetition

The setup

What you are walking into

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.