Balatro

Balatro

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Balatro is a poker-inspired roguelike deck builder all about creating powerful synergies and winning big. Combine valid poker hands with unique Joker cards in order to create varied synergies and builds. Earn enough chips to beat devious blinds, all while uncovering hidden bonus hands and decks as you progress. You’re going to need every edge you can get in order to reach the boss blind, beat the final ante and secure victory. The definitive poker roguelike experience. Endless possi...
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Installation:
How to activate your game
Developer:
LocalThunk,
Publisher:
Playstack,
Release date:
Genre:
Indies, Strategy,
Recent Steam reviews:
Overwhelmingly positive (15552)
All Steam reviews:
Overwhelmingly positive (93015)
User tags*: Steam Deck verified roguelike deckbuilder card game roguelike deckbuilding strategy pixel graphics replay value turn-based card battler roguelite choices matter casual difficult turn-based strategy 2d arcade relaxing procedural generation simulation ...

Visuals

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Game features

Single-player Single-player
Steam Achievements Steam Achievements Steam Trading Cards Steam Trading Cards Steam Cloud Steam Cloud Family Sharing Family Sharing
Xbox Controller Support Xbox Controller Support DualSense Controller Support DualSense Controller Support

Description

Balatro is a poker-inspired roguelike deck builder all about creating powerful synergies and winning big.



Combine valid poker hands with unique Joker cards in order to create varied synergies and builds. Earn enough chips to beat devious blinds, all while uncovering hidden bonus hands and decks as you progress. You’re going to need every edge you can get in order to reach the boss blind, beat the final ante and secure victory.

  • The definitive poker roguelike experience.
  • Endless possibilities - every pick-up, discard and joker can dramatically alter the course of your run.
  • In-depth campaign mode complete with 8 difficulties, as well as challenge and seeded runs.




Deftly deploy an array of potent tools: different Decks, Jokers, Tarot cards, Planet cards, Spectral cards, and Vouchers. Use these versatile instruments to ignite a combo frenzy and turbocharge your poker hands, crafting electrifying, adrenaline-fueled synergies.

  • 150 Jokers, each with their own unique abilities
  • 15 Decks with distinct modifiers to choose from for each run
  • 5 potential variants of each Joker which add further abilities
  • 22 Tarot cards variants that can enhance your regular playing cards
  • 11 Planet cards that help level up your possible poker hands
  • 32 Voucher cards to help provide permanent buffs for your current run




Immerse yourself in Balatro’s distinctive psychedelic world. Let the synthwave soundtrack wash over you - wind down, escape the daily grind and prepare to enter the ultimate roguelike flow state.

  • Improve your collection and discover new cards and secrets with every single run.
  • Make use of the in-depth stats screen to study your best hands, most used Jokers, and more!
  • Immerse yourself in the CRT fuzz and enjoy detailed, hand-crafted pixel art.

Configurations

minimum*

  • 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

Game's latest news

Balatro gets crowned once again at the Indie Game Awards 2024
After winning three awards at last week's Game Awards 2024, Balatro has gone and done it again at the Indie Game Awards. LocalThunk's title won the "Independent Game of the Year" awards, Other winners are Little Kitty, Big City, Pacific Drive and Another Crab's Treasure. Indie Game of the…
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The Friends of Jimbo 3 update for Balatro is now available
New card skins are available for Balatro with the Friends of Jimbo 3 update. These are inspired by well-known titles such as Warframe, Shovel Knight, Enter the Gungeon, Divinity Original Sin II, Don't Starve, Cult of the Lamb, Potion Craft and 1000xRESIST.
Balatro has sold 3.5 million copies
Balatro has sold 3.5 million copies
Balatro has become a real hit since its launch last February. Indeed, LocalThunk's title has been nominated to Game of the Year at the Game Awards 2024. Just a few hours before the event, we learn that Balatro has sold 3.5 million copies across all platforms. LocalThunk: Just gonna make a game for myself…

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Reviews

10
Game review score based on 103 reviews, all languages included

Best reviews

Addicting! Clean
  • Addicting
  • Cant stop playing
Addicting as hell
  • Cheap
  • Addicting gameplay
  • Replayability
The game is very fun!!
Really good and addictive game.
  • It has great diversity for a poker game
  • You will have less free time
One of the best games of the year. Warning if you get addicted to easily beware of the game. it will take away hours
Lowkey thought I'd get scammed or smth, but with a push from a friend I can say this does work, and I haven't been charged $3,000 by them (yet)
Awesome game to spend time
Very fun game
  • Good price
  • Game is fun and Music is awesome
  • Works on steamdeck
Extremely quick and cheap
  • Cheap
  • Quick
  • Maybe GOT
Great game. Very addictive but very hard to beat.
Masterclass
GOTY
GOTY!
now i know why its a GOTY contender, this game is insane
  • fun
  • progress
  • rogue-like
Instant delivery, code has worked every time, big fan

Recent reviews

It is fun and addictive, but also frustrating. It seems that every time you are about to complete the end rounds it will not give you one card you need, and this seems to happen repeatedly.
  • Fun
  • Manipulatrive final rounds.
best card game ever
I'm not much of a rogue lite kind of person they get annoying but balarto is brilliant
great website, im lovin it .
  • great price
  • instant delivery
  • games still on winter sale even tho it ended
  • none
Extremely addictive. Easy to start or continue playing, and easy to stop playing at any point because of regular autosaves and Steam cloud.
  • Fun
  • Has autosaving and Steam cloud saving
  • Time flies by too quickly, beware
One of the best games l have ever played. Highly recommend.
  • Easy to learn hard to master.
its one of the best rouge likes there is :)
5 stars instant
pls give more sotck me is poor me need discount .
  • gud
  • stonks
very simple, yet astonishingly addicting roguelike deckbuilder

runs feel familiar but still differ a lot, already spent >65 hours not even 3 weeks after buying

the difficulty is a bit higher than in most games but once you know what to look for you will only have to worry about jokers and +Mult / xMult ;)
  • very good value / money
  • easy to pick up but hard to master
  • very kind solo indie dev
  • time consuming if you like good game design
Amazing and addictive game made by a solo dev. Endless playability and perfect for PC or steam deck.
great fun little game, you can play any time and anywhere. you can buy it on phone app store as well.
  • relaxing
  • not over complicated to learn
working
i fucking love this game
  • addictive
  • kinda hard :(
fun

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