Balatro is a deck-building roguelite in which players construct poker hands to earn chips and overcome enemy blinds. The game features mechanics for enhancing a deck of playing cards, purchasing Jokers that modify hand effects, and discovering synergies to progress through increasingly challenging encounters.
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"This looks like it could be a fun time-waste, a poker roguelike? I'll give it a try" 60 hours later: "OK IF I DOUBLE SKIP THE ANTE 1 BLINDS I GET $30 AND I CAN KEEP THE INTEREST RATE GOING UNTIL ANTE 5 THEN I CAN GO FULL HEART DECK AND BEAT 1M+ BLIND IN ANTE 10 WITH LEVEL 5 ROYAL FLUSH" This game is what it must have felt like for people in the 80s when Tetris came out. After playing this for a week straight my dreams are full of card suits and just me discarding deck after deck.. Only play this if you're prepared to not do anything else for a few days. "Just one more hand..." This is the CIV of card games. 100 hour update: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Multipliers on fire after picking Purple Stake difficulty. I watched jokers glitter in the dark near the Ante 16 boss. All those moments will be lost in time, like cards in a deck. Time to fold... 170 hour update
according to PEGI - this game that allows you to delete and mark cards simulates gambling, but EA's games that have slot machines and keno that require real money per pull don't. The world is mad. Play Balatro.
0-5 hours: Neat concept, pretty easy for a roguelike though 5-10 hours: Wow there are so many decks! Let's check them out 10-25 hours: Oh the stakes are what make this game hard, things just got interesting again 25-50 hours: Flush builds are bad? High card builds are good? 50+ hours: If I hold this planet card before opening the pack I'll have a 34% chance of hitting another Mercury so I can comfortably beat this blind without scoring too much to keep scaling my Green Joker, but if I sell it I can pick up this jumbo arcana pack which could be better long-term, or maybe I should risk doing nothing to try to get my econ going... let me check what tags are available, what's the boss blind, how much time do I want to spend on this run, what day of the week is it, wait was I supposed to pick up the kid, do I have a kid, do I have anything if I don't have Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo...
I intentionally avoided this game because: 1.) I never cared to play/understand poker. 2.) I don't like gambling. Everything I heard about this game made me want to play it less. I was wrong. This game is simple, elegant, addictive, endlessly replayable, and barely has anything to do with actual poker. It's a simple game where you do the following: 1.) Play card hands to increase your score. Beat a level's specific score to win the level and earn money. (The game lists the card hands you can play in a menu that you can reference any time.) 2.) Spend winnings on upgrades and new cards which make winning future levels easier. That's it. Once it clicks, this game becomes as quintessential as Tetris. From a person who was initially skeptical about playing Balatro, I highly recommend it.
This game is actually addictive. I know that term gets thrown around a lot, but have you ever seen those videos of old people just wasting away their lives at a slot machine in a casino? That's me. That's me playing Balatro.
A man walks into a casino and goes to the poker table. He pulls out a tarot card, a ripped up joker, and a picture of a bus. The poker deck suddenly only has aces of hearts. He earns more chips than there are atoms in the known universe. He walks out the casino and cashes out for 5 dollars. Changing this review. After many hours in the game, I have come to the conclusion that it should instead say: A man walks into a casino and goes to the poker table. He pulls out a tarot card, picture of a king, and picture of a mime. The poker deck suddenly only has kings of diamonds made out of SOLID STEEL and some made out of SOLID GOLD, earning him 3 dollars each, stamped with a red wax seal and made shiny. He earns more chips than there are atoms in the known observable universe. He cashes out for 5 dollars and walks on out.
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