I'm so far down the roguelike rabbit hole that I'm struggling to enjoy any other genre of game, but honestly, I'm not mad ...

A free Balatro DLC is planned for all players, and this "major gameplay update" is coming in 2025. The deckbuilding roguelike swept across Steam earlier this year and stands a very real chance of ...

Gambonanza is chess but also not really. It fuses in Balatro-inspired game mechanics with a small board to create intense ...

One for the coders.

At this point, I'm comfortable calling Balatro one of the best roguelikes ever. LocalThunk's deckbuilder earned a well-deserved spot among the best game nominations at The Game Awards. It's become ...

When a video game has lots of success right off the bat, sometimes things get weird — strange breakdowns in communication with the audience, for example, or hitches in the code that put people off of ...

Gambonanza is a Roguelike that feels very much like chess combined with Balatro, and wow does it work. Here's our full review ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. Balatro is a deck-building game combining poker with roguelike features, allowing ...

Balatro, the poker-themed roguelite, has now passed 5m copies sold. That's more than double the sales since last August, when the game passed 2m copies sold. Since then it's released on mobile and has ...

Black Mirror may show us a variety of near-future dystopias, but at least those unfortunate to live through one of them can play Balatro. The poker-themed roguelike Balatro became a smash hit on its ...

Balatro is one of the (many, many) games marked down for Steam’s annual summer sale. Take it from me: Picking up Balatro on sale — no matter how big or small the discount — is one of the safest bets ...

Vlad Mazanko is Ukraine-based gaming enthusiast, writing about the industry since 2013 and covering everything from games and studios to movies and TV shows. He joined the Valnet family back in 2021, ...