Games like Luck be a Landlord on iOS

Luck be a Landlord came to the App Store in July 2023, from TrampolineTales, at $4.99, and it holds 4.7 out of 5 across a few hundred ratings. 152 symbols, 227 items, and a slot machine you feed to pay rent. It is the game that showed the shape worked.

The line on its own store page

Its App Store description says outright that the game contains no real world currency gambling and no microtransactions. That sentence is doing a lot of work, and every game that followed has had to answer the same question. It is the founding ethic of this small subgenre, and it is worth respecting.

What came after

• **CloverPit**, $4.99, released December 2025, now the best known of them with more than 5,800 ratings. A slot machine and an ATM in a cell, and a debt due at the end of every round.
• **RogueJack: Roguelike BlackJack**, free, which does the same trick with a card table instead of reels.
• **REELS**, which takes the reels out of the quiet.

Where REELS diverges

Luck be a Landlord, CloverPit and RogueJack are turn based. You act, the result resolves, you think. The tension is arithmetic and it waits for you.

REELS is an action roguelite. The reels spin while you are being hunted, and what they land on decides what your weapons fire at. Charms rewrite the rules of the spin rather than adding damage, every floor runs a machine that drops the reels differently, and a toll climbs faster than you do. There is no pause to compute in, which makes it a worse fit if the deckbuilder puzzle is what you came for, and a better one if you wanted it to move.

Honestly

If you loved Luck be a Landlord for the symbol economy and the slow build of a run, CloverPit is the closer sequel to that feeling. REELS is the one to try when you want the same imagery attached to a different verb.