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.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 55.57/day in the week to Jul 30 → 64.57/day in the week after.
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About
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.
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SteamYou are here | $14.99 | 198.6Kreviews | 98% | — | $59.4M |
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Idk how they managed to make crack digital but it's just as addictive and somehow perfectly legal.
[b]My Playtime:[/b] 229.5h (100% achievement, finished the game for too many times to count) [list][*][i]First run[/i]: 3.1h [*][i]All decks in the easiest difficulty and all challenges[/i]: 38.2h [*][i]Completionist++ and Completionist+ except black deck[/i]: 228.3h [*][i]Completionist+[/i]: 229.5h[/list] [b]Grindy Achievement(s):[/b] Yes (2 achievements). [b]Optional Achievement(s):[/b] Yes (27 achievements). [b]Difficult Achievement(s):[/b] No. [h1]Intro[/h1] [i]Balatro[/i] is a card game where you play [i]Poker[/i] hands. The goal is to score as high as possible to fulfill the score needed to pass each round. The game can be played almost endlessly, up to naneinf at round ~73, although the official end is at around round 24. [b]Pros:[/b] - 15 decks with different playing styles - Challenges to prolong your playtime [b]Cons:[/b] - Can get boring if played continuously - Takes time to learn (and get addicted to) [b]Specs[/b] AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 16GB RAM, AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT [h1]Should you buy this game?[/h1] [i]If you enjoy playing card games and doing maths, this game is for you, although the game can be quite expensive if you are not aiming for 100% or intending to play it for a long time.[/i] [hr][/hr] [h1]In-Depth Review[/h1] [h3]The Game[/h3] [b]Gameplay[/b] Assume that you are playing a single-player poker. Your goal is to play poker hands to get enough scores to finish a round. That is [i]Balatro[/i]. [i]Balatro[/i] provides 15 decks, each with different effects. Red deck allows you to discard more times, blue deck allows you to play more poker hands, and many more. Some decks make the game easier, others make it harder. At the beginning, you can only play with the red deck, and more will unlock as you finish the game with more decks or do it at a higher difficulty. Scoring is done by poker hands. Each hand gives different chips and multiplier amounts, with rarer hands giving a higher payout. Increasing these chips and mults is the main meat of the game, and can be done through many ways. Planet cards can increase your poker hand level, which will increase both chips and mults by a small amount. Some joker cards can also increase them, with or without a special condition. Some tarot cards can upgrade your cards to give some chips or mults. Despite the various ways to increase it, using all of them is vital if you want to survive, especially in the higher difficulties. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3563958615 There are 150 Joker cards in the game, each having different effects. Some can give you more money, which you can spend in the shop to buy upgrades, some can increase your chips and/or mults, and others can give other effects. Jokers are divided into several rarities, with higher rarities usually having better effects. Most decks have 5 joker slots, which are upgradeable if you buy a certain item. Finding the right synergies between the jokers is the key to winning the game. Your build depends on RNG. Your fate will also depend on it if you are not skilled enough. After finishing each round, you'll be directed to the shops where you can spend your money—which you earn based on your performance in the last round—to buy upgrades. What's in the shop is random. There are two cards and two packs, which can contain either joker, planet, or tarot cards, and one voucher that will give additional perks to your gameplay. You can reroll them, provided that you have enough money, but what shows up will always be random. [b]Strategy[/b] [i]Balatro[/i] is all about synergies. With how randomized the shop is, you need to find a way to make one in each play. Luckily, the game has so many joker combinations that you can use, and both planet and tarot cards make it possible to win the game even without any jokers. Not using either Joker, planet, or tarot cards will cripple your run greatly, though, especially if you are playing in higher difficulties. That being said, sometimes, the synergies are not enough. The main key in every run is to have enough chips, mults, and xmults that will multiply your existing mults. However, finding one of them might be hard in some seeds, forcing you to be creative. This often turns the game into RNG, where you need to find a seed that gives you these jokers before you can win, especially if you are not skilled enough. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3454861797 Other ways, like pivoting into another build mid-run, can sometimes save your run, although this might be hard to do if you are not skilled enough. I myself usually just stick with one build and find out whether I'm making it or breaking it later. This tends to be the deciding factor of what makes the game frustrating or addictive, giving me a love-hate relationship with this game. [b]Length and Difficulty[/b] Technically, you can finish each run in 1-2h, but I nailed my first win after playing for 3.1h. I spent the rest of my playtime to 100% the game. The game seems to find ways to prolong its playtime. It has 15 decks to play with, and although each deck has a different effect, most played similarly after the first few rounds. However, you need to finish the game with a particular deck to unlock a higher difficulty level of that deck. Note that there are 8 difficulties in the game, so you can imagine the number of wins that you need to do just to unlock everything. The game also offers challenges where you have some limitations in a seeded run. It helps to learn more about the game, finding new synergies from jokers that you would never try otherwise. However, they can be boring since, again, all decks are played similarly. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3482189022 For achievement hunters, the game is painful to 100%. You need to win the game with all decks at the highest difficulty, and then win the game with all joker cards at the highest difficulty. The latter one can easily take 200h since there are 150 joker cards that appear randomly. Moreover, since the game can be very repetitive, it won't be good to attempt this in one sitting. [h1]Conclusion[/h1] [i]Balatro[/i] can be a hit or miss for some people. Those who like cards and maths will like it, while those who hate repetitiveness will hate it. You can finish all that the game has to offer in ~3h, although it demands you to play for longer. The game's nature forces you to play the game over and over, trying different synergies and cards until you find no more, or get bored and try playing it with a mod to experience everything all over again. That being said, the game is not for everyone. Achievement hunters will definitely suffer to 100% it, while players who just want to play the game a few hours a day will find it to be worthwhile. That being said, the game can be quite expensive if you only aim for the first win, so it's better to be played by those who plan to spend a longer time with this game, trying to squeeze out everything that the game has to offer.
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Взагалі не люблю карти і все, що з ними пов'язано. Але виграв Balatro і вирішив спробувати цей картковий рогалик. Геймплей тут простий: збираєш покерні комбінації, намагаєшся набрати якомога більше очок, а потім витрачаєш гроші на різні покращення. Є карти та Joker з різними бонусами, які допомагають набирати ще більше. Перед стартом можна вибрати колоду зі своїм бонусом, а нові колоди відкриваються за певні досягнення та перемоги. Через рандом кожна партія грається по-своєму. Те, що чудово працювало минулого разу, наступного може просто не спрацювати. Іноді все складається настільки добре, що вже думаєш: ну цього разу точно дійду до кінця. А потім гра підкидає тобі таку ху*ню, що залишається тільки дивитися на екран і мовчати. Гра в цілому не складна, але якщо бог рандому тебе не любить, програти можна навіть на самому початку. І кожен раз після програшу цей клоун ще й угарає з тебе, бо ти знову проїбав забіг. Замість того, щоб послати гру на*уй, запускаєш ще один, пробуєш іншу комбінацію, береш інші покращення і сподіваєшся, що цього разу удача повернеться до тебе обличчям, а не сракою. Візуально все просто, але виглядає приємно. Різні ефекти та анімації тут теж виглядають непогано. В Balatro я в основному грав під час відключень світла після російських обстрілів. Брав ноут і залипав у Balatro, а кілька годин без світла проходили вже не так нудно. А от її музика... Бл*дь, хто її придумав? Від неї хочеться просто вийти у вікно. У підсумку Balatro непогана гра, і любителям карткових рогаликів точно зайде. А я після неї зрозумів, що більше в подібне грати не буду. Бо в моєму випадку рандом майже кожен раз дивився, як у мене все добре складається, і просто казав: та йди ти на*уй. І все, на цьому мій забіг закінчувався.
You can see my hours. This is not a multiplayer game. I did not mod it until I 100% it, then cut off the mods to beat the 100% the base game on another profile, for a second time. Buy this game. Play this game. Its the best roguelite I've ever played.
I went into this game with zero prior knowledge of poker. Turns out, that didn't matter! Before I got this game, I honestly couldn't understand all the reviews claiming how addictive it was. After awhile of eyeballing the game, I finally caved and got it and I see it now. This game is simple, satisfying, addictive, and has an amazing replay value. As someone who was initially skeptical about playing Balatro for the longest time, I highly recommend. It might actually be my current favorite card game!
[h1]Why Is Balatro So Good?[/h1] Balatro might genuinely be one of the best games ever made. But what exactly makes this game so damn good? Before I actually try to answer that, there is one thing I want to get out of the way. [b]You do not need to know anything about poker to play Balatro.[/b] In fact, that was probably the first thing that came to my mind when I first saw the game. I thought I would need to understand poker hands, strategies and all the rules that come with it. You really don't. [hr] [h2]So what actually is Balatro?[/h2] Let me give you a very simplified idea of what Balatro actually is. You start with a deck of cards and your goal is pretty simple. You play different combinations of cards to reach a certain score. Reach the required score and you beat the round. Then you move on to the next one. You keep doing this until you reach [b]Ante 8[/b], which you can basically think of as the final level. Sounds simple enough. But this is where things start getting interesting. Alongside your normal playing cards, Balatro has around [b]150 unique Joker cards[/b]. Every Joker can completely change how you approach the game. They have different rarities, different abilities and even different variations of the same Joker. Then you have Tarot cards, Planet cards, Spectral cards and a whole bunch of other things that interact with your deck in different ways. But honestly, you don't even need to understand all of that right now. The important part is this. [b]You are constantly building a combination of cards and abilities that lets you score more and more points.[/b] And this is where Balatro's presentation comes in and absolutely nails it. [hr] [h2]Balatro makes you feel smart[/h2] The game has this incredible ability to make you feel like a genius. When you first start playing, getting a decent score feels like an achievement. Then you slowly figure out which cards work together, which Jokers complement your build and how you can manipulate your deck to squeeze more points out of every hand. Suddenly the numbers start going up. Then they go up even more. Eventually you are scoring thousands, then millions, then numbers so ridiculous that you stop thinking about the actual value and start wondering how the hell the game is even displaying it. And the genius part is that Balatro doesn't just [i]show[/i] you those numbers. [b]It makes you feel them.[/b] [hr] [h2]The presentation is where everything comes together[/h2] When you hit a massive score, the animations kick in. The numbers explode upward. The sounds become more satisfying. Every little interaction has this almost [i]ASMR-like[/i] quality to it. Playing cards, placing them down, triggering effects, opening packs, flipping Tarot cards and watching your carefully built combination activate all have this incredibly tactile feeling to them. Then there is the music and the artwork. The entire visual style is simple but incredibly distinctive. The music creates this strange atmosphere that feels somewhere between a casino and a late night fever dream. You get the excitement and unpredictability of gambling, but you are not really gambling anymore. [b]You are the one in control.[/b] You are the guy sitting at the table who somehow figured out how to manipulate the entire system and turn a normal deck of cards into an absolutely ridiculous scoring machine. And that feeling is probably one of the biggest reasons Balatro is so addictive. [hr] [h2]The feeling of breaking the game[/h2] Balatro constantly gives you the feeling that you have figured something out. That you're getting better. That the ridiculous score on the screen happened because of something you understood and built yourself. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3773449069 The game gives you the fantasy of being incredibly lucky while simultaneously making you feel like a genius. And when the cards, Jokers, sounds, animations, music and numbers all come together at the right moment, there is this incredibly satisfying feedback loop. You make a clever decision. Your build gets stronger. Your score gets bigger. The game makes a huge spectacle out of it. And then you immediately start thinking about how you can make the next number even bigger. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3777756328 [b]That is Balatro.[/b] And I think that is exactly why it is so damn hard to put down.
Took me 104h to reach my goal: win a gold stake. Just played a 4h sprint, didn’t even see time passing. As someone who struggle to focus, this game showed me that I, in fact, can lock in for long period of time. On a deeper side, this game has been a real solid base to bring structure back into my life. Thank you LocalThunk.
Big Blind... Full House? Haha, nope, there's the Flush. Wait... was that a Straight? Balatro was honestly just a random little game I stumbled across on social media... but I have to say, it's actually a really nice game to play when you only have a bit of time to spare. At its core, Balatro is a small roguelike deck-building card game where your goal is pretty simple: score enough points to beat the pot and keep going. Sounds easy, right? Well... it isn't. The better your poker hand, the more points you get. You have 4 hands and 3 discards to reach your pot, so you'd better make those cards count. (at the start) And that's where things get fun. Throughout each run, you build and adjust your deck to focus on certain hands, suits, or synergies. Suddenly, that innocent little Pair you've just played is worth an absurd amount of points because you've somehow stacked a dozen different bonuses on top of it. Full House ×4? Yeah, that's getting somewhere. Two Aces giving you 20×2, plus another 10 because they're Red? Sure, why not. At some point, you're no longer playing small blinds. You're just watching numbers go up and pretending you understand why. And honestly, that's awesome. I can definitely recommend Balatro to anyone who's into roguelikes, deck-building, or card games. It even helped me understand poker hands a lot better, so maybe one day I'll finally be able to sit down at an actual poker table without having to Google what the hell a Straight is. Cheers!
Мужчина заходит в казино и подходит к покерному столу. Он достаёт карту Таро, разорванный джокер и картинку автобуса. Внезапно в колоде оказываются только тузы червей. Он зарабатывает больше фишек, чем атомов во всей известной Вселенной. Он выходит из казино и получает 5 долларов.
When the game makes you so mad you lowk start to understand why people kill each other
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