Status Sir_Laguna Dec 10, 2025
Mike 'Speedball' Bailey just casually having one of the best wrestling matches of the year on a random wednesday while wearing Balatro trunks.
Balatro (2024)
Android · Mac · Nintendo Switch · Nintendo Switch 2 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · PlayStation 5 · Xbox One · Xbox Series X|S · iOS
4.30 from 816 ratings · #167 top rated on Grouvee
2887 members have it in their collection · 159 playing now · 580 backlogged · 170 wish listed
How long? Main story 12h · with extras 111h · 100% 400h (from 24 logged playthroughs)
Details
- Developers
- LocalThunk
- Publishers
- Playstack
- Genres
- Card & Board Game, Indie, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
- Events
- ID@Xbox Showcase 2025, Nintendo Direct [JP]: Partner Showcase + Indie World Showcase - 8.27.2024
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Feb 20, 2024 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
- Mar 01, 2024 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Mac
- Sep 26, 2024 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Android, iOS
- Feb 25, 2026 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch 2
Related
Editions
- Balatro: Special Edition (Sep 2024)
Updates
- Balatro: Friends of Jimbo (Aug 2024)
- Balatro: Friends of Jimbo 2 (Oct 2024)
- Balatro: Friends of Jimbo 3 (Dec 2024)
- Balatro: Friends of Jimbo 4 (Feb 2025)
Featured in lists
Rating distribution
5 stars
407
4 stars
284
3 stars
98
2 stars
20
1 star
7
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status Atag May 14, 2025
I've been giving this a go since it hit Playstation Plus and I thought it would be more addicting than it seems to be judging by other peoples reviews. It definitely grabs an hour or two of my time each time I play it though, and I'm really enjoying it so far!
I thought the rouge elements would make your …
I've been giving this a go since it hit Playstation Plus and I thought it would be more addicting than it seems to be judging by other peoples reviews. It definitely grabs an hour or two of my time each time I play it though, and I'm really enjoying it so far!
I thought the rouge elements would make your runs last a bit longer, I thought the deck building would keep going somehow even after you lose a blind. Building your deck for a solid hour and then losing everything and starting with a fresh deck with none of your previous cards feels a bit too much of a hard reset sometimes, but I guess they needed to implement some way of forcing people to put the game down lol. I get that with other games in the genre you lose everything too but theres something satisfying about building up a really cool deck, and knowing that you may never get those combinations of jokers and playing cards in your deck again is really defeating sometimes. Maybe I just need to master the cards!
Status BrayanOckel May 9, 2025
This game didn't deserve the nomination for Game of the Year. It's good, but it could easily be something you'd find installed on a casino machine. It's basically solo poker. In fact, it's more repetitive than other card games like Slay the Spire (at least that one actually innovated with more dynamic layers of strategy and more meaningful progression).
Status georgeypoorgey Apr 17, 2025
Teaching my kid how to play cards (so they can play Balatro).
Me - “…and then the numbered cards go from 10 to two.”
Kid - “why is there no 1?”
Me - “Because the ace is both 11 and 1…”
Status georgeypoorgey Apr 12, 2025
bal - like "ballet"
la - like "latte"
tro - like "trophodermatoneurosis"
hope that clears it up
Status retrocheyenne Mar 27, 2025
Inscryption this is not. Hot take: I also hated Outer Wilds.
Status Adr7an7 Mar 15, 2025
Juego de póker que no es de póker. Increíble, divertido y adictivo; no hay mucho más.
Lo he jugado en móvil y es un formato muy agradecido. Probablemente sea un juego que revisite de vez en cuando.
Una vez más te hace reflexionar sobre como un juego desarrollado por una persona acaba teniendo más impacto que una super producción.
Status spaceybirdie Feb 26, 2025
I am still playing Balatro from time to time when I need something to occupy me but I have no creative inspiration. I am still finding it a slog but it's a slog which eats my time and sometimes that's what I need. Still, it's really quite baffling to me that this game is so highly praised. It also seems …
Read moreI am still playing Balatro from time to time when I need something to occupy me but I have no creative inspiration. I am still finding it a slog but it's a slog which eats my time and sometimes that's what I need. Still, it's really quite baffling to me that this game is so highly praised. It also seems very vaguely praised in reviews etc, which doesn't help me understand any better. It has a relatively clean concept, and it's certainly very polished, but the gameplay itself, well... easy to learn and easy to master. Not ideal. But maybe it's the fact that it isn't pushing the envelope that makes it so popular? Oh well, who knows. Time to do the Slay the Spire daily challenge.
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Status spaceybirdie Feb 13, 2025
I am... not addicted to balatro. I am actually woefully unaddicted to balatro. Is it the years playing various card games? Is it the hours upon hours in other roguelikes? Is it the dyscalculia making the number crunching unappealing?
It has everything I love. I guess? Yet it already feels like a slog. I just feel vaguely annoyed when it …
I am... not addicted to balatro. I am actually woefully unaddicted to balatro. Is it the years playing various card games? Is it the hours upon hours in other roguelikes? Is it the dyscalculia making the number crunching unappealing?
It has everything I love. I guess? Yet it already feels like a slog. I just feel vaguely annoyed when it takes me more than one hand to win a bind. Usually, when I win, it's been a surprise to me, because I haven't been paying enough attention to notice I'm on ante 8. Hopefully the difficulty increases escalate, but I'm not positive I'll play long enough to find out.
Status spaceybirdie Feb 6, 2025
Just a little game before bed, I said. Well, where I live, it is now 2AM. Thank god I don't have any meetings tomorrow morning. Balatro is going to become a problem for me FAST.
Status spaceybirdie Feb 6, 2025
Well, this game is immediately addictive. As somebody who has spent an embarrassing number of hours on Stardew Valley's slot machines, I have to say I did see this coming.
Perhaps this is my raging ADHD, but the games that people rave about are often the ones that leave me with heavy dopamine hangovers. I have a headache and bleary …
Well, this game is immediately addictive. As somebody who has spent an embarrassing number of hours on Stardew Valley's slot machines, I have to say I did see this coming.
Perhaps this is my raging ADHD, but the games that people rave about are often the ones that leave me with heavy dopamine hangovers. I have a headache and bleary eyes, and all I want is to keep playing. I don't think this necessarily makes the game good, though it's too early to say. It's definitely going to make me keep playing.
Status spaceybirdie Feb 6, 2025
Alright. Let's do this. Send positive vibes to my dopamine receptors.