Balatro on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.

Balatro is a card game, roguelike deckbuilder and rogue-like game developed by LocalThunk and published by Playstack.
Released on February 20th 2024 is available on Windows and MacOS in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 141,366 reviews of which 138,619 were positive and 2,747 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.7 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 12.59€ on Steam with a 10% discount, but you can find it for 7.63€ on Instant Gaming.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 x64
  • Processor: Intel Core i3
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 compatible graphics card, integrated graphics
  • Storage: 150 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
  • Processor: Any Intel or Apple Silicon processor
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 4 GB RAM
  • Storage: 150 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025
A man walks into a casino and goes to the poker table. He pulls out a tarot card, a ripped up joker, and a picture of a bus. The poker deck suddenly only has aces of hearts. He earns more chips than there are atoms in the known universe. He walks out the casino and cashes out for 5 dollars. Changing this review. After many hours in the game, I have come to the conclusion that it should instead say: A man walks into a casino and goes to the poker table. He pulls out a tarot card, picture of a king, and picture of a mime. The poker deck suddenly only has kings of diamonds made out of SOLID STEEL and some made out of SOLID GOLD, earning him 3 dollars each, stamped with a red wax seal and made shiny. He earns more chips than there are atoms in the known observable universe. He cashes out for 5 dollars and walks on out.
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Jan. 2025
Don't buy this game, unless you're okay with becoming consumed by an obsession you don't even understand. I blinked and 35 hours went by in 3 days... Send help.
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Nov. 2024
I intentionally avoided this game because: 1.) I never cared to play/understand poker. 2.) I don't like gambling. Everything I heard about this game made me want to play it less. I was wrong. This game is simple, elegant, addictive, endlessly replayable, and barely has anything to do with actual poker. It's a simple game where you do the following: 1.) Play card hands to increase your score. Beat a level's specific score to win the level and earn money. (The game lists the card hands you can play in a menu that you can reference any time.) 2.) Spend winnings on upgrades and new cards which make winning future levels easier. That's it. Once it clicks, this game becomes as quintessential as Tetris. From a person who was initially skeptical about playing Balatro, I highly recommend it.
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Nov. 2024
This game is actually addictive. I know that term gets thrown around a lot, but have you ever seen those videos of old people just wasting away their lives at a slot machine in a casino? That's me. That's me playing Balatro.
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Sept. 2024
0-5 hours: Neat concept, pretty easy for a roguelike though 5-10 hours: Wow there are so many decks! Let's check them out 10-25 hours: Oh the stakes are what make this game hard, things just got interesting again 25-50 hours: Flush builds are bad? High card builds are good? 50+ hours: If I hold this planet card before opening the pack I'll have a 34% chance of hitting another Mercury so I can comfortably beat this blind without scoring too much to keep scaling my Green Joker, but if I sell it I can pick up this jumbo arcana pack which could be better long-term, or maybe I should risk doing nothing to try to get my econ going... let me check what tags are available, what's the boss blind, how much time do I want to spend on this run, what day of the week is it, wait was I supposed to pick up the kid, do I have a kid, do I have anything if I don't have Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo...
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Balatro
9.7
138,619
2,747
Online players
20,110
Developer
LocalThunk
Publisher
Playstack
Release 20 Feb 2024
Platforms
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