Following Balatro's explosive debut, there have been almost too many deckbuilding roguelikes hoping to snatch a piece of the pie for themselves. Even Krafton (the corporate owner of Subnautica 2, PUBG, and Hi-Fi Rush) received a couple of hundred pitches from devs chasing Balatro's coattails.
Speaking to Rock Paper Shotgun at the Digital Dragons conference, Krafton executive Victor Lee says that the average "trend cycle in gaming is just getting shorter and shorter," and advised prospective devs against mindlessly following the Next Big Thing since it'll probably fall out of favor in a year or so.
