Balatro's poker-themed take on a deckbuilding roguelike was an instant hit earlier this year, so when I heard there was a ...

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Eight months after its initial release in February, the poker-themed roguelike indie title Balatro is celebrating a ...

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So says the game's creator, LocalThunk, in a post over on X, "The Everything App." "Balatro has been cumulatively played for ...

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“Balatro,” whose developer only goes by the screen name localthunk, bends the rules of poker the way only video games can, applying randomized powers to your deck that transform every ...

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In Balatro, the main gameplay loop is amassing enough poker chips to beat a set chip total called a blind. To do that, you must create the ideal poker hand that maximizes the number of chips you ...