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Balatro

Platforms

PC

Initial releaseFeb. 20, 2024

Genres

Card Games
Indie
Strategy
Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy

Balatro Spotlight

Review: Balatro review: only fools would sleep on this moreish poker roguelike
No joke
Katharine Castle
1 year ago
61
Localthunk quells AI art civil war started by Balatro erotica subreddit mod
Jimbo's Big Unnaturals
Nic Reuben
1 month ago
37
Our 24 favourite games of 2024
In non-calendar form
Graham Smith
3 months ago
47
After junking Balatro's 18 rating, PEGI will develop "a more granular" rating system for gambling themes
Luck Be A Landlord also no longer 18-rated
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
2 months ago
18

Balatro Feed

Perfectly legitimate poker in a Balatro screenshot.

News

Localthunk quells AI art civil war started by Balatro erotica subreddit mod

Jimbo's Big Unnaturals

March 12, 2025Nic Reuben

37 comments

High-scoring cards popping off in a Balatro screenshot.

News

After junking Balatro's 18 rating, PEGI will develop "a more granular" rating system for gambling themes

Luck Be A Landlord also no longer 18-rated

Feb. 25, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

18 comments

IGF 2025 nominees show what a wild and vibrant place indie gaming is

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IGF 2025 nominees show what a wild and vibrant place indie gaming is

There are several surprise nominations and absences this year

Jan. 16, 2025Graham Smith

21 comments

Screenshots of Factorio: Space Age, Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown, Balatro, and Mouthwashing.

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Our 24 favourite games of 2024

In non-calendar form

Jan. 13, 2025Graham Smith

47 comments

A side-by-side comparison screen for a mod that gives all the Joker cards in Balatro boobs, including Joker cards that feature inanimate objects, like the walkie talkie depicted here

News

Balatro mod Jimbo's Big Naturals is a lot funnier and safer for work than it sounds

One pair

Jan. 7, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

10 comments

Horace the Endless Bear wraps himself around the top of a Christmas tree.

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The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 12th

Open today's door - then run

Dec. 12, 2024RPS

30 comments

Friends Of Jimbo 2, a free update adding new card art to Balatro.

News

Balatro gets a second set of free card cosmetics inspired by Cyberpunk 2077, Stardew Valley and others

Good deal

Oct. 24, 2024Graham Smith

7 comments

High-scoring cards popping off in a Balatro screenshot.

News

You won’t be seeing the Balatro IP used by casinos or gambling companies - the developer has forbidden it in his will

Despite all predictions, the house has lost this one

Aug. 7, 2024Nic Reuben

13 comments

Doom being played on a modded Balatro.

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Balatro can run Doom – or can it?

“Literally nobody asked for it, but…”

July 26, 2024James Archer

21 comments

The player characters from Dead Cells, Hades 2, and Spelunky 2 line up against a background map from Caves of Qud.

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The 19 best roguelike games on PC

Going rogue

June 20, 2024Brendan Caldwell

101 comments

High-scoring cards popping off in a Balatro screenshot.

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Supporters only | What are ‘solvable’ games, and is being solvable a bad thing?

Balatroptimisation

April 19, 2024Nic Reuben

8 comments

Balatro '95 mods the roguelike deckbuilder to use the cards from classic Windows Solitaire

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Balatro ‘95 perfects procrastination by modding the roguelike deckbuilder into classic Windows Solitaire

Wave goodbye to every free moment you have

April 18, 2024Matt Jarvis

5 comments

High-scoring cards popping off in a Balatro screenshot.

News

Balatro is getting just a little bit easier in the next patch, and you can try it now

Beta branch now in public testing with heaps of balance changes

April 8, 2024Alice O'Connor

10 comments

Perfectly legitimate poker in a Balatro screenshot.

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Balatro's Endless mode is perfect: a fun victory lap before you extremely die

The only roguelikelike game where I always play Endless

March 1, 2024Alice O'Connor

24 comments

Perfectly legitimate poker in a Balatro screenshot.

News

Balatro's creator has barely played other deckbuilders, and thinks that's partly why it succeeded

Spared genericism

Feb. 26, 2024Alice O'Connor

22 comments

Review

Balatro review: only fools would sleep on this moreish poker roguelike

No joke

Feb. 19, 2024Katharine Castle

61 comments

A suite of Joker cards from Balatro

News

Uh oh, Balatro might be the deckbuilder to end all deckbuilders

It's hard to poker holes in this moreish roguelike's new demo

Jan. 25, 2024Katharine Castle

13 comments

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