Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 10:43 pm
Luck be a Landlord – Strategy Game Review
Luck be a Landlord is a Strategy/Card game from TrampolineTales LLC, first launched in 20th July 2023.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 301+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Luck be a Landlord Stand Out
Defeat your landlord in this slot machine roguelike deckbuilder!
Your landlord is knocking on your door. You have one coin left to your name. You insert the coin into your slot machine…and…JACKPOT! Luck be a Landlord, tonight!
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.
Features:
152 Symbols
227 Items
186 Achievements
20 Apartment Floors
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Luck be a Landlord is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Fixed a few typos across various languages
- Fixed a rare crash on the title screen
Download & Availability
Luck be a Landlord is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Luck be a Landlord on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This is the only game Ive ever paid for on our phone and we dont regret a penny of it. Now, losing sleep on the other hand nah its worth it! We have the luck of a donkey, but still have somehow gotten to floor 17.
Ive been playing luck be a landlord for years on steam but Im excited to see an iPhone port! This game is simple to learn but hard to master. Its a rouge like and a deck builder smashed together with the added addictive quality of a slot machine. Great fun, 10/10.
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Amazing game. Very addicting. But please add iCloud save support.
Many symbols are basically traps for being basically useless. Not much practical synergies or unlocks really exist.
We got hooked on this on steam for PC Now in wintertimes im using it to learn Turkish because the app is also amazing Beautifully crafted.
Very fun roguelike slot game. Each symbol synergies with another and with some strategy you can build crazy combos. This game is super heavy on the RNG but its all part of the fun. Each floor/level gets increasing difficult so theres lots to play here. Very simple, addicting, great for very short burst to longer sessions. You can play for just a few minutes and feel satisfied, making it the ultimate bathroom break game lol.
We downloaded this from a random Reddit comment. We havent put it down for days.
It's a funny game!!!but the computer edition have moreplease update quickly.
Easiest the best mobile roguelite Ive played. Performance is flawless, gameplay is satisfying, audio design is great, and you can just put it down in middle of a run and pick it right back up. Amazing game. Please make another one.
Im impressed with how well games like this can capture attention with the most simple gameplay. Thats the mark of an excellent design/execution. Games like LBAL, Balatro, Nubbys, etc. These deck building rogue-lites, are some of our favorite games to be released in the last decade, just for the excellent design.
This game is really so addicting and fun to play we highly recommend it.
Hats off the developer(s). Simple in its design and premise but still fun and addictive. Took us about a week to get to floor 20 (some floors we played over the course of a few days), but ironically as the name implies, luck plays a big part and the day we unlocked floor 20, we cleared it in about 20 minutes due to ridiculously good luck with symbols ended up whooping the landlord with 2 cows, 2 kittens, and five or six cultists chefs kiss.
We have to agree that this is about the best five dollars Ive spent on an iOS game.
Give this one a shot. Well worth every cent.
Incredibly good time consumer. Not a lot of variety but hours of replayability for a great price, with an ever increasing difficultly and fun strategies to pursue. Im hoping for more modes, such as starting with a rare or the ability to change the starting slot items, but Im also only at level 11 with only 13 wins out of 110 games so well see what else is unlocked.
Just as the titles says this game labeled itself as a roguelike and has absolutely no upgrade paths to make later attempts easier. A simple slot game deck builder based completely on Rng. There are no ways to upgrade your slots or luck when drawing cards to add. Its fun just not what it was labeled as.
For the price we guess its okay. We beat the whole game in 120 games. Each game take about 1:30. Once u know what ur doing its only chance, and luck be on your sice. Argg. Decent game. Just wish we didnt pay moneh for It.
Ive genuinely enjoyed this game, and Im always happy to find an original game that doesnt have any in-app payments or ads. But there are still ways it could be improved. More game modes or variation would be welcome, but if we had to make one change, it would be not having to do the boss fights every game. It would be nice if we could choose to go back to the game modes where rent keeps increasing until you cant make it any more once you unlock the other version of endless It can also be a little frustrating to try to start a good run when none of the spins are meshing – in some ways it feels like there are too many options.
While we absolutely love this game on the phone, the iPad version needs a fix to the UI. Cuts off item descriptions and you need to scroll down to read what each symbol does. Theres no practical need for this, since there is ample screen to use if it were resized properly.
We think the base game is great. It doesnt appear to be updated or balanced anymore but its still good. The reason for the low review is that the UI is cutoff and on iPad. It makes it virtually unplayable on iPad. Ive tried contacting the dev and not heard back. Disappointing.
This game has been such a refreshing gaming experience. One of the most unique games Ive played in a while. This game has you failing time and time again without feeling like youre not making any progress toward succeeding. Runs vary from we cant believe how horribly this has gone to wow we didnt think we were gonna pull this win out. Highly recommend spending the money for endless good times.
This is a fantastic game that we have loved playing on PC and now can play from our phone and tablet. Please allow players to plan in landscape mode as well. Its a far better experience on tablets if you can play in landscape.
It needs a sorting system for the items like including the option to group multiple items into a packet of items you click on to enter based on sets of items like all the pepper items or cat items or items that activate after a certain number of spins.
Game is good but doesnt have a landscape mode.
As a beginner we'd like a little more time to understand why we earned what we earned. Can you add an option to count it up more slowly? Also, pixel art is cute but this we wasso pixelly it's hard to tell the symbols apart, especially in the "destroy" screen where they're tiny (even on an iphone 12 pro). Please add these two UX customization options. Thanks.
On tablet the menu is different from phone with it wasting space and making the menu small.
Very fun game, not too easy not too hard- our only complaint is that when you go endless theres no rent requirement, which makes endless seem kind of pointless. Would be very nice if there was a way to turn on rent for endless mode.
This game is very fun, addictive and is everything it claims to be. Looking forward to a sequel or remake. A few things we really appreciate about this game: – moves very fast and the math is calculated quickly, so youre never really bored or made to wait but you do have to keep up. – lots of ways to succeed, youre never pigeonholed into one better play style and you learn to love certain symbols you wouldve otherwise ignored. – as long as the app is still running, itll save your spot without having to reload. So if youre playing at work or with any interruptions, its easy to pick up where you left off. – higher levels are not easy, so expect a challenge. -music and sound effects are great and make sense for where they fit into the experience.
Probably the most perfect game for mobile. Has that addicting loop. Satisfying but also frustrating RNG (positive). Love the customization aspect though we wish it were a little easier to preview how the changes look. Not going to knock the game for that. This is a fun one worth your $5. This is also the first review Ive left for a game before. Good stuff.
Please make a sequel with different symbols.
This is a fantastic game but this mobile version keeps crashing after a while when playing endless mode. Ill never be able to guillotine ourselves at this point.
Its a nice little piece of AI.
The mobile version has a bug where pressing reset to default causes the confirmation pop up to just repeat again and again.
Heard about this through Balatro and can definitely vouch for it being worth 5 bucks.
Very fun and addicting. Great fun while on the toilet or avoiding lifes responsibilities. But why is there no tracker of high score, levels, what the goal is??? We have no idea what Im trying to achieve. It feels kinda empty without that.
We got to inf the money stops after the number 2^(1024) Witch is the 1024 bit integer limit and the limit of almost all computers. So you cant prevent that. And it takes like 8 hours to get to inf. 5 stars. Very fun game.
Simply, stating that this game is a good game would be an understatement. This is one of the best mobile games on the market. It is worth every single penny. There are 20 unlock more levels with each level being harder than the last. There are over 150 unique symbols that add a lot to the game with synergies. The game is not easy, but it is a perfect combination of luck and strategy. 10/10.
We know low res graphics are a style choice, but this game needs better resolution to differentiate between symbols. It is very hard to decipher what each card does, and tapping inside the description is infuriatingly small. There are some animation speed adjustments, but we want to see the money collected from each icon slowly, so we can figure out what is actually happening. It would be nice to tap to collect the money. It is never clear when we can use the remove button.
Played on the PC, when it came to iOS it was an instant buy for us. Its fun and funny, and theres a lot of replayability. Its a fun gameplay loop.
We got the game like two weeks ago at Christmas time and just beat it today finally. Its tough to get the right build but we finally landed on an awesome combination that was giving us like 70-100 coins per spin sometimes more. Made our 12 payments and the landlord moved to the second floorphew Great game! Will continue to play and beat again, good time passer for quick games. Now we gotta get to level 20 for the suprises.
We saw this game on YouTube months ago and hoped it would be ported to mobile. Its extremely addictive and endlessly replayable. Worth every penny.
Such a great phone game. However, essences throw off the balancing and making endless mode literally endless after that point makes continuing pointless.
Look, this game is difficult. We think they call it a rogue like which means you will fail often that is how the game is designed. That said, it is so fast and fun and quirky and cute and has so many different synergies to discover and unlock it is the perfect mobile game. We first started playing it on PC and got so excited when we saw it come to mobile so Ive actually purchased this game two times but its so worth it and we play it so much more on mobile because its the perfect form factor for this game. We have failed hundreds of times we only recently made it to floor two for the first time so dont be discouraged when you cant pay your rent we keep playing because we like everything about this game. Its just so cute and fast and easy and there is so much to unlock. We dont know if Ill ever make it all the way to level 20 or whatever the boss fight is and all the surprises that people talk about. It may take us thousands of games to achieve victory but thats the point, just to play. This game is near flawless and perfect for mobile. Its worth every penny. Theres nothing else quite like it, so just get this game already.
Phenomenal game but its truly sad that theres nothing to do after a great build you know you could take further after the landlord was defeated. Also the iPad inventory box/adding to your inventory is really clunky.
Having a blast playing it. Takes some thought and luck but winning is easy. We an on ascension 10 right now. After you play you know what to take and what not to take. Yes there is luck but you have capsules that can get rid of signs, rerolls to get better signs and other things to help you. Stop crying and get better. Game is perfect for mobile.
Thanks for bringing it to mobile, TrampolineTales. We you.
This is a really fun game and suited for mobile. Buy it if you want something offbeat and different, plus you get to show your support for quality indie games in the App Store. Unfortunately the game isnt perfect, and our main complaint is that there is no meta progress in the game. Nothing changes from run to run. You dont even unlock new items as you get into the higher levels. This feels like a missed opportunity and diminishes long term enjoyment of the game. That said its still a fun time and worth the $4.99 entrance fee.
This game is fantastic. Props to the de evolved because you can feel their heart and soul in the game. Its a fresh and invigorating new take on the deck builder Roguelike that we have already enjoyed for hours. It really is almost perfect. We only have a couple things that we would love to see in the future: 1) Some type of meta unlock – the current achievements are fun, but we cant even see them in the game, and they dont provide a lot of reason to go for them other than just unlocking it. It would be cool to see additional symbols or items we could unlock through achievements. Even permanent disable of certain items to allow players to refine the play style they would like to build and feel a sense of progress. At this point getting pretty far in the game feels like it has as much to do with luck as it does skill and knowledge, which is super fun in its own right, but we would love to feel like we can refine our deck from the start. 2) Additional UI elements that provide knowledge and accomplishment – these include – a library of symbols and items (that weve already picked) – so we can see which items synergies outside of having to pick them again in game – Achievement menu – Maybe some kind of high score tracker or place we can view previous decks weve done well or terribly with we realize it just came out today, so none of these aspects being missing will stop us from playing, but as an avid Roguelike fan, we wanted to express our praise to the developer for creating a great game and hopefully have our voice heard early! Enjoy.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.16
- Size: 94.96 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: AR, BG, DA, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling
- Developer: [TrampolineTales LLC]()
Last updated: 4th November 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Card | Developer: TrampolineTales LLC