Balatro stands as one of the most successful indie games in recent memory, contending in the saturated world of roguelikes by combining the genre's usual gameplay formula with deckbuilding themes. By ...

Our choice for the overall game of 2024 is the poker roguelike that played its cards right all year. It held them, it felled them, and it skipped straight past the competition—Balatro was the game the ...

LocalThunk was shocked by the game’s commercial success, earning $600,000 in revenue within hours of its release. The creator recapped Balatro's journey in a blog post, offering a closer look at its ...

Watch the latest Balatro trailer to see the new collaborations in the Pack 4 update, including Bugsnax, Assassin's Creed, Slay the Princess, Fallout, and more. The Balatro: Friends of Jimbo Update 4 ...

LocalThunk's Balatro arguably became the defining indie game of 2024, chewing through its players' available hours with a novel yet incredibly deep roguelike spin on playing poker hands. The game ...

My Steam Deck is a Balatro machine at this point, and no, I’m not complaining about this. I’ve broken out my Steam Deck for plenty of games before Balatro and I plan on playing lots more on it in the ...

Balatro dominated the Game Developers Choice Awards last night, taking home Game of the Year and Best Debut alongside Best Design and the Innovation award. Astro Bot won two awards in the Audio and ...

John Bonelli is a news writer for Game Rant who's been writing about video games since 2017. He fell in love with gaming upon playing Fallout 3 for the first time in 2013; it's still his favorite ...

Balatro recently celebrated its first birthday, and despite millions of players getting hooked on its satisfying, roguelike gameplay, it's just opened itself up to millions more. While its modest ...

PEGI says that Balatro, which has no gambling, provides skills that ‘could be transferred to a real-life game of poker.’ PEGI says that Balatro, which has no gambling, provides skills that ‘could be ...

The poker roguelike is also getting a bunch of new collaboration cards featuring games like Civilization VII, Bugsnax, and Assassin’s Creed. The announcement follows the news that Balatro will be ...