Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilding game where you use a slot machine to earn coins to pay rent. The objective of the game is to pay rent 12 times, at which point you can then choose to continue a game into Endless Mode. When you pay the 12th rent payment, you may chose to play on a higher apartment floor, which modifies the game to make it more difficult.
Gameplay[]
Each turn, you spend one coin and spin the slot machine to earn money from the symbols shown, then have the option to add another symbol to the machine. Symbols can interact with each other in many ways, such as adding to or multiplying the payout from another symbol, or even destroying it. Each rent payment, you also have the option to obtain an item, giving permanent and often powerful modifiers to your run.
Rent increases quickly throughout the game, starting at just 25 coins but reaching 777 coins by the 12th payment. The number of turns to make rent also increases to a maximum of 10.
The following chart shows the price of rent on the lowest difficulty, apartment floor 1, as the game progresses. Keep in mind that it costs 1 coin to spin the slot machine.
| Payment # | Rent | Turns | Coins/Turn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 5 | 5.8 |
| 2 | 50 | 5 | 11 |
| 3 | 100 | 6 | 17.7 |
| 4 | 150 | 6 | 26 |
| 5 | 225 | 7 | 33.1 |
| 6 | 275 | 7 | 40.3 |
| 7 | 325 | 8 | 41.6 |
| 8 | 375 | 8 | 47.9 |
| 9 | 500 | 9 | 56.6 |
| 10 | 550 | 9 | 62.1 |
| 11 | 650 | 10 | 66 |
| 12 | 777 | 10 | 78.7 |
Endless Mode[]
Endless Mode is an optional continuation of a run that has completed the 12th payment. The first Endless rent payment is 1000 coins, and increases by 500 every payment; every payment in Endless allows 10 spins to reach the payment. After each rent payment in endless mode you will be offered three rare (or better) symbols to choose from.
| Payment # | Rent | Turns | Coins/Turn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1000 | 10 | 101 |
| 14 | 1500 | 10 | 151 |
| 15 | 2000 | 10 | 201 |
| 16 | 2500 | 10 | 251 |
| ... | +500 | 10 | +50 |