While The Game Awards nominations have heavily favoured big hitters like Metaphor: ReFantazio, Astro Bot, and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth—the latter two of which are notably not on PC, boo—one indie game is standing among the bigger players: Balatro.
LocalThunk's fantastic poker roguelite has secured five nominations: Best game direction, best independent game, best debut indie game, best mobile game, and the coveted Game of the Year award. That's the same number of nominations as Black Myth: Wukong, and one more nomination than Shadow of the Erdtree received.
