Games Like The Landlords

The board game that came first.

In 1904, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie patented The Landlord's Game. She designed it to teach a lesson: let a few players buy up all the land, and everyone else goes broke. She gave it two sets of rules. Under one, the winner bankrupts everyone else. Under the other, the whole table prospers together. One of those games went on to conquer the world. The other was nearly forgotten.

The Landlords brings both back to life.

Leap into history

Doctor Sam Bucket has stepped into a time machine and vanished. He wakes up in the bodies of strangers across early 20th-century America, guided by AL, a wisecracking hologram only he can see, and PIGGY, a handheld supercomputer. To get home, Sam has to play his way through the real, little-known history of the world's most famous property-trading game.

Monopolist or Prosperity: you choose

Play by Magie's original Monopolist rules and squeeze your rivals dry, or switch to Prosperity, where utilities and railroads are gradually nationalised, wages rise as colleges are built, and the game is won when the poorest player has doubled their money. Pick a Classic or Modern preset, or build your own ruleset from the ground up.

Features

The Landlords is an independent adaptation of The Landlord's Game, patented by Elizabeth Magie in 1904 and now in the public domain. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Hasbro, Inc. MONOPOLY is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc.