Landlord's Super Reviews

I love the simplicity of the game. No web tutorials needed except for making concrete and other binding materials - the mixture of those is not easy to get right! The rest is pretty simple: renovate a house, do odd jobs for others to make some money and juggle between unemployment and those jobs in a fictional village in 80s Britain. The game can be very repetitive but I do not see that as negative. For the price i got it (on sale) it is definitely worth it.

Overall good experience, the core sim elements are great, however mid to late game is lacking seems to be a lot of missed opportunities. You cant work on multiple property or invest your money into business around town. Not enough work opportunities. The game seems unfinished.

I would recommend this to anyone who enjoyed the janky oddness of Jalopy, didn't mind the bugs and broken aspects, and likes games that turn everyday jobs into fiddly (and innacurate) simulators. In terms of aesthetic, the game is a fantastic slice of 1980's small town Britain. It mainly pulls this off through graphics. The characters in the town only have a few lines, but stand in as such strong archetypes that they feel like they have much more character. The characters are bolstered by all kinds of little details: newspapers, a selection of fake liquor and snacks, the scrap man's horse, the clearly down on its luck town, and your character's stomach getting so fat you can longer see your zipper. Regardless of the simplicity, this feels like a real place that I was kind of sad to leave after almost 40 hours. The actual home repair and building is sometimes very picky with lots of screws and careful placement, but also sometimes wild and broken. This is where you most see what the developers were going for but weren't quite able to complete. Still, I found nailing plasterboard, fixing roofs, throwing down carpet, and building nonsense scaffolding just to replace a few bits of shingle consistently engaging. The physics are very inconsistent, but also still funny as you watch your nail gun fall off the roof, a dropped ladder smash away your brickwork, or see your wheelbarrow glitch out of existence. But, yeah, other reviews aren't lying. The game is extremely buggy and figuring out how to do almost anything can be a chore of trial and error and lots of internet searching. Because the game is not very popular, that internet searching will sometimes just not lead to an answer. Because I was so compelled by the other aspects, I slowly overcame these difficulties and became pretty efficient at working with the sometimes nonsensical rules. The gameplay arc is another area that is too underdeveloped. Weirdly, there is actually a very satisfying path through the game, but the game pushes you in the wrong direction. You start out collecting scrap, doing odd jobs, and washing dishes to scrounge up enough money to buy materials to complete the first house. This all works pretty well. I enjoyed the hustle here, but feared I would have to keep doing it forever. The reward for completing that house is getting to rent it. And renting is the worst part of the game. It is just boring. There's not much to do here. You can still scrap and do odd jobs, but otherwise time just passes with the reward of a little money and a bit of damage to the house. This is the arc that the game very clearly presents you with, and it isn't very good. What is actually fun is just selling the place and walking away with a huge chunk of change. After that, you don't need to do any more busy work. You'll easily have enough money to complete the next house. The game then becomes a house flipper in which you refine your skill and speed at fixing up the houses you can buy from the council. Not only do you skip the money scrounging, but the upgraded tools are all pretty good. They remove the most annoying aspect of earlier tools, while still be fiddly enough to require paying attention. The tenants do provide a goal: fixing up a place good enough for the best tenant, the yuppie. But actually renting it to them is still boring. So, in the end, this game is really a janky, almost broken house flipper set in 80's Britain. And, I honestly really enjoyed it. I'm really looking forward to Minskworks next game, Honcho.

It's a good game, great base idea but full of bugs. I managed complete the first house but not the second one from 0.. Purchased it on a 90% sale. Things are just not explained well enough to build a fully new house, always the same job after seen all with the tape reward, getting boring really fast. :\

When I need to fix something around the house, I no longer look at youtube videos. I just play this game for a couple hours and problem solved. My house is falling down around me but I like this game.

Charming premise, pleasing graphics, soothing gameplay, all bundled in a deceiving sale. Bought it on a 90%-off sale. I reckon I enjoyed playing it so far, but that's it. Don't even bother buying it on sale - if you really want to experience the game, remember that everything is free on the internet if someone searches well enough. The game is sold as a unique, fulfilling landlord experience - it is not. Unfinished houses are just cosmetic, map is locked beyond the small townside, coding is a bug circus. You can't build/supervise more than one property at the same time. They did the same to Jalopy, their previous game: Sold both as grand experiences, then just gave them up even considering both games have a huge potential for improvement - and even potential for increasing the dev's profit from both were they properly finished. A side note: For me it really makes absolutely NO sense somebody would abandon two absolutely amazing game concepts that could become literal cash cows, instead being fine with two half-baked, buggy games.

i used to love watching youtubers play this game back in the spring of 2020, while it was in early access, and i forgot about the game, but after 5 yrs i remebered about it , but didnt know the name of it, but thanks to chatgpt i found it. after all this, i have to say that the game is how it was back in 2020, but much better, with more mechanics and stuff to do, besides renovating the house. if you like games like my summer car, or house flipper, this game is for you, but i suggest buying it only when it is on sale

This game’s not really what I was looking for going in, which I’ll be the first to admit, is on me. I saw a few clips of Sips and Ravs playing it and thought it looked like a chill little building game, but it’s more of an immersive sim akin to My Summer Car where you work on one house the entire time as opposed to something like House Flipper where you get a new one every couple of hours. The vast majority of gameplay is doing odd-jobs for two or three days straight so you can maybe afford to build one wall, and even after the house is finally repaired, you basically just sit around collecting rent for five years until you can afford to pay off your debt. In fact, most of my time playing was spent making so much goddamn no-fines mix that I can tell you what the perfect ratio is off the top of my head. I also had to take a break half-way through my playthrough because in order to get a yuppy tenant, I had to expand my property by eighty-four square metres right after I’d just spent thousands of dollars in-game and almost ten hours irl trying to add two extra floors and expanding it from one-hundred and twenty eight square metres to two-hundred and sixteen. Then about twenty-five hours in, I discovered the slot machine and was able to actually afford the fully upgraded no-fines silo, which thankfully worked because the concrete one permanently bricked my automatic cement mixer; pun intended. As it turns out, gambling is by far the most lucrative way to make money in this game; you bet twenty pence at a time for a more than likely chance to win the daily jackpot, which can pay out almost ten times more than any odd-job, and by extension twenty times more than a full nine-hour shift washing dishes at the local pub. There are also only three recursive odd-jobs in the town, and two of them don’t restock materials, which means you actually get paid less than advertised (Plus one bugged out for me and wouldn’t respawn). That said, these are only a few of the many issues this game suffers from. In general, it feels like a half-baked product (Which judging by some of the reviews and discussion threads seems to be a common issue with these devs). There are still a ton of bugs which have gone unaddressed since launch, including two seperate issues related to chain-smoking which made getting the Black Lung achievement impossible for me, as well as hints at features which were clearly meant to have been implemented later on only to have never seen the light of day; bus stops with only two locations, empty plots of land which can’t be bought, a full town with only six enterable buildings, and stores that can only be ordered from via payphone, just to name a few. There are no player vehicles, no save slots, and no way to manual-save other than ending the day. The visual style feels like it’s trying to replicate something like Grunn without fully committing, which I think is reflective of the experience as a whole, and it’s actually the main reason I put off buying it for so long (Well, that and the price. I managed to get it on sale for a dollar and I still think I overpaid). [hr][/hr] TL;DR - This game is unfinished and abandoned. If you like Jalopy or My Summer Car, you might find that there’s some fun to be had, but don’t go paying anywhere near full price for it.

A bit rough, but it allows you to enjoy the Millennial fantasy: Home Ownership and employment EDIT: Turns out it's closer to reality than i originally thought, If you pay off your debt too early, the game soft locks if you sell the property prior to the loan shark Tom Nook'ing you into buying the construction site. Head canon is that was so salty that i wasn't under his thumb that i ended up in the canal "for the greater good". Greater good.

developer is a scummy wanker who abandons every game they make for excuses and leaves it half finished with broken promises. last game was abandoned because of some drama they made up in their own mind and now this is abandoned for no reason and they started work on another game which will drop dead soon