Luck Be a Landlord Strategy – Best Tips and Tricks

Luck Be a Landlord is a cute single player indie simulation and strategy game which just left early access on January 6th. In the game, you build decks and play slots to ensure you have enough money to pay your landlord. Your landlord emails you periodically with the subject: Your rent is due. The subject line specifies a gold amount, and the amount is due in a certain amount of wheel spins. Overall, the idea is to “defeat capitalism” by earning money the fun way.

Challenges to Overcome in Luck Be a Landlord

Luck Be a Landlord offers several challenges to the player, which make the game less repetitive but also more challenging each time they wish to play. For one, the symbols you’re permitted to place in the slot machines to increase your chance of winning are different each time.

Additionally, every symbol has different animations and effects, so it’s like learning the game anew each time you play.

There are also other perks for the modern gamer: the landlord is framed as a villain who can die via guillotine and you get to pet a cute dog.

So how do you succeed at Luck Be a Landlord?

Luck Be a Landlord Best Strategies and Builds

A large portion of strategy is dependent upon your item type.

• Fruit builds and mineral builds are your best bet almost every single time. These types of builds enable you to win the game or at least get pretty far into it.

• Avoid building around animals and divers, who don’t scale well because they don’t enable multiple scalings each turn. While it can be fun to build a broken deck based on randomly generated options, it’s not reliable or repeatably strategic to depend upon these cards.

• Embrace seeds, as they can grow into high-value items. If you put farmers or rain next to them, they grow faster. If you get fruit that isn’t high value, Ms. Fruit can eat them — but she’ll avoid your higher value fruit such as watermelon or apples.

Early Game Strategy Picks

Part of the game is making do with what gets generated, so in addition to the fruit strategies, some players suggest lockboxes, keys, dwarves, and infants as an ideal early game strategy when there are no fruits to be found.

Mid Game Strategies for Luck Be a Landlord

Coal is another strategy, but it takes more finesse, as it takes a while to develop into diamonds. For this reason, it’s recommended more as a mid-game strategy.

Don’t forget your black stones, which permit you to destroy an icon. Removing a blocker is really valuable in this game, especially in mid and end game.

Late Game Strategies in Luck Be a Landlord

Towards the end of the game, you have to be tight with your synergies to get those multipliers. You have to sustain a higher level of cash, so keep them coming. Additionally, you need to use those black stones to get rid of cash-consuming items so you have room for synergy improvement items.

Strategies can be tough to pin down in Luck Be a Landlord, since some amount of your coin is always dependent upon what’s randomly generated. However, these strategies have proven helpful in getting that guillotine and defeating the evil landlord.

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