Despite being a game ideal for short gaming sessions or playing on your Steam Deck, I can't deny that Balatro is the type of title that awakens a great desire to achieve better scores. If you ...

Though on the outside, Balatro seems like it’s just playing poker, that couldn’t be further from the truth. In order to succeed, you’ll need to utilize the varied and helpful Joker cards. We have ...

Roguelike deck-builder Balatro is one of the best roguelike games because it's like real poker with about 100% less risk and 100% more surrealist fun. Special Joker cards with unique, enhancing ...

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A roguelike poker title that started as a side project for its maker but has now snowballed into a very popular card game sounds like a made-up success story, doesn’t it? While it brings a very unique ...

Balatro is a poker roguelike game that makes use of special cards called Jokers to help you score points and win a run easily. With so many modifiers available, though, it can be hard to pinpoint the ...

There are a lot of Jokers in Balatro. There’s no single best joker, especially since it’s a Roguelike where you’re going to be forming a ‘team’ of cards that compliment each other, though there’s ...

Balatro, during the early stakes — the game’s version of difficulty settings — is an addictive, immaculately designed roguelike experience. Once you start runs on Purple Stake and higher though, ...

Highly addictive and infinitely replayable, Balatro (Latin for jester) is a magnificent, unique take on the roguelike deckbuilder genre. In a world of inferior Slay the Spire deckbuilder clones, ...

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