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Review Thread of Balatro - Available on multiple plaform - a roguelike deckbuilder game.
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Game Information
Game Title: Balatro
Balatro is a poker-inspired roguelike deck builder where players create powerful synergies and win big. It combines valid poker hands with unique Joker cards to enhance the deck and defeat enemy blinds.
Platforms:
- Xbox Series X/S (Feb 20, 2024)
- PlayStation 5 (Feb 20, 2024)
- Nintendo Switch (Feb 20, 2024)
- PC (Feb 20, 2024)
- Xbox One (Feb 20, 2024)
- PlayStation 4 (Feb 20, 2024)
Review Aggregator:
Opencritic [91] | Metacritic [88]
Critic Reviews
Balatro emerges as a captivating example in the roguelike genre, skillfully blending poker elements with deck-building structure. The simplicity of its rules, combined with the strategic depth offered by the varied modifiers, creates an immersive experience. For strategy game aficionados, roguelike fans, or even for those who have never ventured into poker, the title offers a rich, challenging and, above all, fun experience, promising hours of challenge and satisfaction.
To put it in terms as simple as the game itself, Balatro is the best deckbuilding roguelike I've played. And I've played as many as there are cards in a deck (almost).
No two games of Balatro are ever the same, which is only one of the reasons why we love this poker roguelike so much. Sure, it’s annoying if your run doesn’t get off the ground — it’s easy to fail early on if you can’t get your hands on a good Joker. But when you’re in the swing of things, scoring tens of thousands with just one hand, you’ll feel like the most powerful card baron there ever was. Simple and devious, Balatro is, quite frankly, brilliant — and I’m going to be playing this for months to come.
While the idea of a poker roguelike might sound like a niche game, the flair and fun found within Balatro makes it an absolute must-play for fans of the genre. Breaking the rules of poker to score millions of chips in a single hand was a rush, and I was always chasing ways to push it even further beyond. While there are a few times you can feel snubbed by the luck of the draw, these are wildly overshadowed by the moments where you hit it big.
Balatro is a masterfully crafted Roguelike card game, that's easy to learn thanks to its poker mechanics but hard to master.
Wielding nothing more than a deck of cards and a poker-themed twist on proceedings, developer LocalThunk has conjured something incredible and awe-inspiring with Balatro. What starts as a relatively-novel twist on the deckbuilding format quickly blossoms into an experience that's equal parts methodical, experimental, chaotic but satisfying all the same. A game that rewards clever thinking, mathematical meddling and having the courage to be just that bit braver in uncovering just how far one can push its systems at play. Wherein success and failure alike stand as equally memorable moments to build off. A paradigm for what roguelikes and deckbuilders should aspire towards, Balatro is addictive, expertly-crafted and the new front-runner for what is easily the best gaming experience of 2024.
Balatro is a fantastic showcase of how to create complexity by establishing a simple ruleset and building on it. LocalThunk’s debut title turns the simplest of poker hands something magical with modifiers and special cards and jokers. At the same time, it pushes the player to try new strategies with its bosses and to skip blinds for a bigger reward. I felt like I barely scratched its surface and I still yearn for more.Get ready to devote all your free time to it and watch your “perfect” strategy fall apart just to try it again and again. A must have for poker, deckbuilder and strategy fans.
A surprisingly-effective roguelike variation on poker, for those who enjoy it, and a pretty unique challenge
Now, please, let me play my Balatro in peace. I got an idea for a sick flush strat that I want to try out. So I'll y'all later.
A roguelike deckbuilder debut already worth of joining Slay the Spire and Monster Train at the King's table. Essential.
Balatro is an incredibly clever indie gem that uses the bones of regular poker to build an incredibly approachable and fiendishly addictive new experience. There's a wonderfully slick core to this one, building decks and taking on dealers as you add wild special cards and variables to your pack is trance-inducing stuff and, backed by a fantastically understated soundtrack and perfect visuals, it makes for one of the first proper, actual, absolute must-play games of 2024.
Between the main game, seeded runs, and a Challenge mode to really test your skills, there's endless fun to be drawn from Balatro. With so many variables to experiment with, sleek presentation, and hypnotically addictive gameplay, this is easily among the best deckbuilders, and possibly among the best roguelikes, we've played yet.
A clever roguelike card game about cheating your way to victory, Balatro is a generous and mesmeric take on poker with endless strategic possibilities.
With its unlockable deck types, tricky economy, advanced joker concepts, challenge runs, and ascension-like “stake” system, Balatro offers countless hours to engage its treacherous machine of diversion. If this was preinstalled with Windows in lieu of Microsoft’s mandatory, productivity-wrecking Solitaire back in the 90s, modern civilization as we know it could have very well ground to a halt. For fans of deckbuilders, Balatro is an addictively delicious, menacing creation which devours hours without mercy. It should be handled with great care.
For a deck building rogue-like, a concept I have seen so many times over, Balatro thrives within its style.
I am not exaggerating when I state that Balatro is a masterpiece of a game, a bonafide achievement in gameplay design. A single developer was able to take the core principles of poker, add in a ton of roguelike elements on top a brand new gameplay loop, and come up with something so addictive it will possibly ruin your productivity at work. This damn thing is basically a virtual drug. It’s so simple, so inviting, and downright impossible to put down.
Balatro is my new gaming obsession, I frigging love it. Deckbuilding roguelikes have had some phenomenal games over the years. Balatro reaches the lofty peak of Slay the Spire and has me hooked even harder than that incredible game ever did. You should buy it, now. Buylatro!
Comments
Balatro丨A poker-inspired roguelike deck builder, mobile version is coming. Pre-register now!
Balatro is a poker-inspired roguelike deck builder all about creating powerful synergies and winning big. The game has sold over 250,000 copies in 72 hours across all platforms. It was released on Steam in Feburary and got 16,000 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews for now.
In the game's official Discord channel, the developers said that Balatro will be released on mobile. The mobile version is already in the testing phase. But it is still being optimized and is not yet ready for release.
TapTap Editor3K2024-03-14
I’ve found the next roguelike I’m going to spend hundreds of hours playing
SHOULD I PLAY BALATRO?
Whatever you do, do NOT play Balatro...at least, not until you’re ready to become obsessed with it and sink dozens of hours into one of the most deceptively complex and addicting roguelike deck-builders I’ve ever played. Balatro takes the basic rules of poker and turns the challenge of finding the best poker hand into an absolute art form that grows endlessly more complicated as runs progress. With hundreds of unlockables, bonus challenges, and deck types to discover, there’s enough here to keep the obsession burning long past the point of being healthy.
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