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More about it: The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Especially great, considering it's from a solo developer, to hit 2 million sales in a few months is absolutely amazing. Well deserved too, it is a wonderful game. The developer seems really nice too, mentioning recently on X (Twitter) that they've ensured it can't be turned into an actual gambling game:
From the outside this might make 0 sense but I hate the thought of Balatro becoming a true gambling game so much that when I recently created my will I stipulated that the Balatro IP may never be sold or licensed to any gambling company/Casino
As for what's to come next? Teased in a post on Steam is the next major update:
The first major announcement in this campaign is that there will be a major gameplay update coming to Balatro in 2025. This update will bring new ideas and strategies to the game and will be released across all platforms. And as a token of huge appreciation to the game’s brilliant and passionate community, the update will be completely free.
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: constI've sunken some time into it, but somehow always felt bad afterwards.There's no shame in sinking time into a good game
Quoting: missingnoAny word on a native build? I saw that it's in Love2D so it should be easily portable.You can basically port it yourself. The game is in Portmaster and I think their extractor is open source.
Last edited by const on 13 August 2024 at 7:58 pm UTC
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