
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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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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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese
Updates
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Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 810 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
goty
you can gamble and stuffg
addicting as ♥♥♥♥, high score baron mime runs are insanely dopamine inducing
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Addictive, technically decent game. But the gameplay is pure gambling, no skill, unless realising that squares have the biggest area of all rectangles is a skill for you. It is fun, but after playing it my mind feels numb. So I'm going to recommend against it, similar to Luck be a Landlord. It is probably more fun to watch someone else play this game. If you're looking at this game because you like poker, this has nothing to do with poker except for the starting deck (but later not even that) and being roughly inspired by poker's scoring system. It is much more luck-based than poker and completely lacks the betting element, which I believe to be the essential part of poker (but I'm not a poker player so maybe I'm wrong). Obviously this has absolutely nothing to do with roguelikes, so ignore silly Steam tags. Maybe except some minimal inventory management and some simple procedural generation but virtually every game these days have those. It's also not a deckbuilding game, because you start with a full deck and you can easily win the game without modifying the deck at all (AFAIK you have to rely on a standard deck for the first few runs because you don't even have deck manipulation unlocked at that point). If you like watching big numbers appear on your screen, I suggest a standard incremental game without gambling elements instead.
No necesito mucho de jugarlo para saber que te descontará años de tu vida jugar esta cosa de lo adictivo que es. No recomendable para ludopatas.
Good.
Es un muy buen juego de cartas
I've done drugs that are less addictive than this
gran juego
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