Balatro
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The future of gaming belongs to weird little games
By Evan Lahti published
opinion After Balatro, Animal Well, Content Warning, and Abiotic Factor in 2024, small games from small studios are innovating as well as anyone else.
![Cards swirl in an interdimensional vortex in Balatro's trippy intro sequence.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bNSaVUMce96WEjwcdHH7NQ-320-80.jpg)
Balatro's first big balance patch fiddles with Fibonacci and makes a mod to Odd Todd
By Andy Chalk published
news No, I don't know what any of that means, but it's live now on Steam.
![An image of a card from Balatro denoting its 1 million sales in front of a psychadelic background.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kJNvcKbiFaUiueq24jjyHd-320-80.png)
Top-tier deckbuilder Balatro hits 1 million sales in less than a month, which hopefully justifies all the hours we've collectively lost to it
By Harvey Randall published
News Upping the ante.
![A flush in Balatro](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hNTgyxVnZsNntjkMF8B4NC-320-80.jpg)
'Balatro is the first deckbuilder I ever played,' says developer who singlehandedly made Balatro
By Phil Savage published
news Despite this, over 1,500 years of Balatro have collectively been played on Steam.
![Balatro - Small Blind: Score at least 500,000](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/D4MYHHsi8e8fsFWEz6bXPJ-320-80.jpg)
Poker roguelike sensation Balatro sells more than 500,000 copies in just 10 days
By Andy Chalk published
news People sure do like their Balatro.
![A flush in Balatro](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hNTgyxVnZsNntjkMF8B4NC-320-80.jpg)
Poker-themed deckbuilder Balatro gets delisted from some stores after its PEGI rating absurdly jumps from 3 to 18+ over 'gambling imagery'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "I do not condone gambling," says Balatro developer LocalThunk, "nor do I believe that Balatro contains gambling."
![Cards swirl in an interdimensional vortex in Balatro's trippy intro sequence.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bNSaVUMce96WEjwcdHH7NQ-320-80.jpg)
19 essential Balatro tips to make you a master of the blinds
By Robin Valentine published
HANDY Get to Ante 8 and beyond with these key strategies.
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'I don't play poker at all' says solo developer who made the poker roguelike I can't stop playing
By Christopher Livingston published
Big Deck Energy Developer LocalThunk says his deckbuilder, Balatro, is actually based on a game called Big Two, not poker.
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