
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.
Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
Media

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.

Genres
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 730 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 728 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
非常好玩
好玩
Эта игра заставила меня кричать как аутист каждый раз когда играл хорошую руку. Мне кажется я здесь наиграю 2000000000000 часов
上头
ЁБАНЫЙ РОТ ЭТОГО КАЗИНО ♥♥♥♥♥!!!
MANO, MEU DEUS, QUANTA DOPAMINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 1 MILHÃO DE PONTOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Addictive as hell.
kinda like fortnite but poker game
Balatro is an addictive yet incredibly frustrating game. The developers sought to turn the game of poker, already an incredibly luck-based game, into a roguelike. They have succeeded. The player is given a set number of poker hands to make a target score of chips. The player has a set number of discards to manipulate their hand toward this end, and over time the player can unlock the games roguelike elements to change the rules such as Jokers (typically alter how cards are scored or money is made), Planets (astrological cards that increase the scores of different hands), Tarots (Cards that offer the player a choice of altering card faces and applying bonuses), and bonus descriptors that add varying effects to cards when they are either played or held in hand while scoring. I wish I could give a middle-of-the-road reccomendation for this rather than the hard yes or hard no Steam forces us into. The game presents itself as a roguelike in which multiple builds are viable but that just isn't true, and a few bad RNG joker pulls can ruin an entire run. On top of that cards in your deck are delt out randomly for every hand, making it a challenge sometimes to even benefit from the roguelike elements of the game. If that wasn't enough, the game is so stingy with its money that the player has virtually no control over building up the set early in the run. Despite these flaws, it is incredibly addictive because of what it does right: adding new unlocks as you play, giving you enough time to explore what each roguelike element does, and showing you what COULD be possible with the right pulls and some dumb luck. I suppose the game is keeping in the spirit of Poker by giving the player as little agency as possible, but it's incredibly difficult even on easy mode to get anywhere in a run. It's not a game for someone who doesn't have patience to endure strings of bad runs through no fault of their own, but it can be very rewarding for those who do.
goof
Related
Related
Trends
Modeled estimate over time, reconstructed from Steam's monthly review histogram.
Engagement
DAU/MAU are modeled from peak concurrent players (≈×8 and ×28) — Steam publishes no active-user counts, so treat these as rough estimates, not reported figures.
Audience
Audience
Estimated from the language of this game's reviews — a proxy for where players are, not official Steam demographics.
Games most often reviewed by the same players — an audience-affinity signal from our review sample, not full ownership data.
Related
| No Rest for the Wicked | $55.5M | 79.9K | 80% | $39.99 |
| DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS | $55.4M | 29.7K | 93% | $69.99 |
| The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered | $55.6M | 52.9K | 91% | $49.99 |
| Sid Meier's Civilization VII | $55.6M | 57.6K | 48% | $34.99 |
| Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 | $55.8M | 218.7K | 84% | $17.99 |
| STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II | $55.9M | 99K | 88% | $39.99 |