Balatro

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 roguelike deckbuilder, card game 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 117,558 reviews of which 115,411 were positive and 2,147 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.7 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 13.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Balatro into these genres:

Roguelike Deckbuilder Card Game Rogue-like Deckbuilding Singleplayer Strategy Pixel Graphics Replay Value Turn-Based Card Battler Rogue-lite Choices Matter Casual Difficult Turn-Based Strategy 2D Arcade Relaxing Procedural Generation Simulation

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

in 1989, Tetris was released for the NES. It is commonly regarded as one of the best puzzle games of all time due to its precise design and carefully considered gameplay. It has no fat on it to trim and the fluff was never there to begin with. It needed no balance patches, and to go along with it, that one, continuous song that became etched into the minds of a generation. It was a real life Polybius, and many people called it the perfect game. 35 years later, Balatro was released. Balatro is a special kind of game. It's a game where the success of the player isn't determined by how fast they can act, like tetris, how precise their inputs, like mario, or even how much they know, like pokemon. It's instead about how they use their head to navigate simple systems that play off each other perfectly. A player need not even tab out of the game to access all the information about what could appear in the shop, what cards they might draw, or how much their hand may score. But there's ambiguity there, there's uncertainty. It's the ability to have enough control and information to make an informed decision, like chess, but enough randomness to bring additional excitement that is absent in games with less ambiguity. And so you sit at your computer, hitting that reset shop button, eyes glued to the screen, waiting for that one piece so that your build can all fall into place. 50 gold becomes 45. 45 becomes 39. 32. 25. This next shop needs the card you want if you want to be able to afford it. You hover your mouse over the reroll button. The one, infectious melody playing over and over in your head. And you've travelled back to 1989, you're sitting on the carpet too close to the screen in your pyjamas, it's past your bedtime. Boom. Tetris. It might be 35 years until we get another game quite like Balatro. But I'll keep on watching that number go up, keep on listening to that song, keep on saying "one more go" until we do.

Nov. 2024

Addicted? I'm not addicted. I've been gambling for 20 years. The shaking is due to the excitement of getting to gamble more. (buy the game, its good)

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.

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...

March 2024

The negative reviews say the game sucks because it's too RNG dependent. 4 hours in I agreed with them, 5 more and I couldn't disagree more. Play this game.

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