Balatro
2024 · LocalThunk · ~40h to finish
Poker hands as a scaling problem. The ante climbs faster than a fair deck can, so a run lives or dies on whether the multiplier joker you needed ever appeared in the shop.
Real resistance. Expect to work for it.
Price on Steam
USD · United States · checked 1h ago
The fingerprint
- Punishment drops 1.1 points — you handle this better than most.
- Assist options shave roughly 1.7 points off, if you use them.
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IGDBWhere it bites
SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULTNo walls charted yet. If you have played this, you know where it bites — add the first one.
Assists & accessibility
0/3 SOURCEDCHALLENGE RELIEF
- Difficulty modes [unsourced]
- Save anywhere [unsourced]
VISION
- Scalable UI & text [unsourced]
Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.
What it is
Balatro is a deck-building roguelite in which players construct poker hands to earn chips and overcome enemy blinds.
Where to go from here
Argue with these asksNearest fingerprints in the catalogue. The same demands, a different game.
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