Hey landlords! Thanks for jumping in on launch day. Weve just pushed our first update with some important fixes and quality-of-life tweaks based on your early feedback. Heres whats new:

Optimization Enhancements

• Improved overall performance and stability for a smoother renting experience.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a game-breaking issue with Money Trees.
• Growth Glitch buffs now correctly remain permanent.
• Plugin descriptions have been cleaned up for typos.
• Growth Glitch plugin description now displays properly.
• Calendar display bugs in Endless Mode have been fixed.

Game Modes

• Endless Mode difficulty now scales more aggressivelygood luck out there!

Quality of Life

• You can now choose to disable calendar.exe from popping up at the end of each round.

Thanks for playing Rentlord! Keep the feedback comingwere listening and already working on more updates --- If you enjoyed Rentlord, please consider writing us a review on Steam, as this helps us immensely on reaching new players, share your thoughts and ideas, we value your reviews a lot, and shape the game depending on it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3546440/Rentlord/

[ 2025-06-24 14:16:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! Were thrilled (and slightly in debt) to announce that Rentlord is officially out today on Steam! This is our roguelike real estate game where you're not just collecting rent youre building chaotic combo engines, unlocking powerful plugins, and trying to survive the week without being crushed by taxes. Every run is a new opportunity to outsmart the system (and your own bad investments). [quote]Buy weird properties, stack wild combos, dodge taxes. Its like Monopoly had a roguelike baby.[/quote]

Whats Rentlord all about?

• Buy and flip properties across a range of weird and wonderful types
• Install powerful plugins to turn your buildings into income-generating machines
• Stack rent multipliers and trigger wild synergies
• Survive weekly challenges and randomized events
• Avoid taxes like your landlords life depends on it

Free Content Updates

Rentlord will get 4 free content updates after the release. We detailed these on this following image, and you can also see a constantly updated version of this roadmap on the main store page of the game!

Last Words and Your Feedback

I'm a solo developer, and thank you for supporting me through development. Thank you all so much for wishlisting and playing the demo. And huge thank you to my publisher Rogue Duck Interactive and their team, handling all the marketing and coaching me through the making of the game! Rentlord was a strange idea that became a stranger (and more fun) reality, and we cant wait to see the combos you cook up. Please share your ideas and feedback with me on the Steam Community Forums for the game, or send a Steam Review, which helps a lot for the visibility of the game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3546440/Rentlord/ -- We have a bundle with another game from Rogue Duck Interactive coming out today, called Ship Inc. feel free to check out and purchase both of the games together for an additional bundle discount. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3496000/Ship_Inc/

[ 2025-06-23 11:16:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Performance Improvements

• Fixed an issue where FPS drops occurred, especially in late game.

Game Modes

• Endless Mode difficulty scaling has been made much harder.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a visual bug where the Word of Mouth plugin popup displayed a black box.

• Resolved an issue where the "You Win" screen had incorrect blur and red text visuals.

• Fixed a mismatch between the ESC key and app click behavior in the Settings app.

Quality of Life

• Rent collection is now much more fluid, especially noticeable during late game with high multiplier rounds.

[ 2025-06-07 05:54:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

New Features

• Added ability to drag apps from their header section.
• Introduced a new Russian font that better fits the overall game aesthetic.

Balancing

• Further refined game balance based on ongoing player feedback.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where property spawn chance texts would overlap.
• Fixed an issue where the best round was not updating correctly.
• Fixed Royal Estate and New Customers plugins not applying buffs properly.

Quality of Life

• Newly purchased properties are now sorted from highest to lowest or lowest to highest based on player preference.
• Improved overall text readability for better clarity.

[ 2025-06-01 09:52:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

New Features

• "ESC" to open settings.
• Higher number support.
• Increase max game speed up to 3x.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where playing on higher resolution monitors caused stretching problems.
• Fixed an issue where resolution and display changes wouldn't get saved.
• Fixed an issue where some properties have negative rent.
• Fixed an issue where the best round was not getting saved.
• Fixed quota surge challenge, which broke the actual quota and set it to the starting quota of the game.

[ 2025-03-22 16:59:49 CET ] [ Original post ]