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Balatro: Special Edition
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Item Description
It starts with a hand of poker and a modest goal: score enough chips to beat the blind. Twenty minutes later you are holding a Joker that adds mult for every heart you score, another that pays off whenever you play a pair, and a stack of Planet cards that has pushed your Flush to absurd levels, and the numbers on screen have stopped looking like poker scores and started looking like phone numbers. That spiral is Balatro, and it makes a strong case for being the most compulsive game of 2024.
Created by a solo developer known as LocalThunk and published by Playstack, Balatro is a roguelike deckbuilder built on poker hands. Each ante you face a Small Blind, a Big Blind and a Boss Blind whose special rule bends the game against you, perhaps debuffing an entire suit or dealing cards face down. Clear eight antes and you win the run. Between rounds, the shop sells Jokers, Tarot cards that reshape your deck, Planet cards that level up specific poker hands and Vouchers that permanently change the run. Every scoring hand resolves as chips multiplied by mult, and the joy is in finding combinations that make those two numbers explode.
You never need Texas Hold'em strategy to enjoy it; the game only cares which hands you can make, from a humble Pair to a Straight Flush, plus secret hands like Five of a Kind that open up once you start duplicating cards. The presentation, a hazy CRT-tinted felt table over a swirling psychedelic backdrop with a hypnotic looping soundtrack, makes it oddly relaxing even as runs get tense. Different decks and escalating Stake difficulties keep reshaping the challenge long after the first win.
Balatro became the breakout indie hit of its year, winning Best Independent Game, Best Debut Indie Game and Best Mobile Game at The Game Awards 2024 and earning a Game of the Year nomination alongside far bigger productions. The Switch is a perfect home for it, a turn-based card game you can play in two-minute bursts or lose an entire evening to in handheld mode, and the Special Edition gives the phenomenon a physical release fit for the shelf, an appropriate fate for a game that is, at heart, a love letter to a deck of cards.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 2024
- Publisher
- Playstack
- Developer
- LocalThunk
- Genre
- Strategy, Card & Board
- Players
- Single player
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Balatro: Special Edition Includes 10 physical versions of the in-game cards.
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