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Balatro Has Cost You Thousands of Years
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ROGUELIKE·DECK-BUILDING·REL 2024.02.20
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The Consensus: Is It Worth Playing?
Balatro is a poker-themed roguelike deck-building game where players combine poker hands with Joker cards to create synergistic builds and earn chips to beat escalating blinds. Developed solo by LocalThunk and published by Playstack, it features 8 difficulty levels, challenge and seeded runs, and a variety of special card types including Tarot, Planet, and Spectral cards.
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What Balatro is isn't so much fun or meaningful to me as it is compulsive... it does seem explicitly crafted to kill time. At last count, about 6 and a half thousand years of it.
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