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I spent 2025 digging through all the word game roguelikes flooding Steam to see if any could capture Balatro’s magic—here are the highly scientific results

Sweet spell of success?

PC Gamer

"This award can f*** itself": Clair Obscur Expedition 33 Verso actor would rather give up Best Supporting Performer than go without "the thrill of that sweet, sweet banana" Joker in Balatro

Give Ben Starr the banana

GamesRadar

Steam expert hails PC gaming "golden age" of rough-but-fun games that devs can make quickly and players love, from Peak to Megabonk: "Steam players want fun first"

Lethal Company, RV There Yet, Slots & Daggers, Cloverpit, the list goes on

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Vampire Survivors drops a bucketload of new content with a Balatro collab and an "expansion within an expansion" — and it's not over yet

Vampire Survivors just added Balatro content, online co-op, a bunch of new levels and expanded the Castlevania expansion

Windows Central

The bouncing DVD logo screensaver is a Balatro now

A destiny fulfilled.

PC Gamer

Ball-bouncing, city-building, off-the-wall roguelike Ball X Pit is a huge hit, selling 300,000 copies in just its first five days on sale

With a peak concurrent player count of nearly 35,000.

PC Gamer

Balatro but with dice has me hooked, Dice A Million keeps me rolling in this Steam Next Fest demo

Dice A Million replaces cards with bizarre dice, challenging me to reach progressively higher rolls

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After dodging Silksong, this Balatro-style slot machine roguelike smashed even my highest expectations by shipping 100,000 copies in a single day

CloverPit is dangerously addictive

GamesRadar

Step aside, Balatro—the new king of addictive gambling roguelikes is here

Helloooooooo!

Destructoid

Balatro creator says "I'm slow" and "I am sorry" and update 1.1 is not coming this year for good reason: "The prospect of rushing the work and going back into crunch mode to get it out this year just felt terrible"

Balatro update 1.1 is now on the timeline of "it's done when it's done"

GamesRadar

How well do you know Balatro's jokers? Try to ace our latest quiz!

Ante up! Let's see if you're a true card sharp or just a flop.

PC Gamer

John Romero says indies are the future of game development: 'These people are the ones that make triple-A studios go, 'Wait a minute, we need to start doing this''

Finding funding for those indies is another matter.

PC Gamer

It's Balatro all over again: a $5 plinko roguelike from a new solo dev is one of the top-rated Steam releases of 2025, and 10,000 reviews agree looking like a pre-installed Windows XP game is a plus

Nubby's Number Factory boasts an "Overwhelmingly Positive" rating

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No wonder Superman took so long – director James Gunn was as obsessed with Balatro as the rest of us: "I pretty much just catch up on work and read and play Balatro"

The global enemy of productivity has come for DC Studios

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This new 'roguelike deckbuilding typing game' is like Mavis Beacon Teaches Balatro, and I'm here for it

In TypInc. you hammer out paragraphs as quickly and correctly as possible while using perks and multipliers to score big.

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Mark Cerny Joins the 0.1% Elite with Balatro Platinum

Mark Cerny is no stranger to breaking new ground in gaming. As the mastermind behind the PlayStation 4 and 5, and with an iconic legacy spanning Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, and Knack, his career speaks for itself.

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This Balatro-style roguelike is Localthunk's nightmare, because it swaps Poker for a literal slot machine to really simulate that gambling feel and its Steam Next Fest demo is dangerously addictive

CloverPit isn't worried about its ESRB rating

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Balatro doesn't have microtransactions for a very good reason: 'It makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots and pans," LocalThunk says

That also holds for in-game ads, season passes, and other "nonsense that isn't actually the game."

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"I might have exhausted all my luck": Balatro God-King hits lucky streak so powerful that 1-in-1 billion odds don't even begin to describe it

Even the game's most notorious card couldn't slow him down

PC Gamer

Dulcet-voiced Sony tech god Mark Cerny is better than you at Balatro, joins the 0.1% of players to platinum the whole game

Who's this Joker?

Inverse

PlayStation Plus Just Added The Decade's Most Entrancing Card Game

Once you try out 'Balatro', it is hard to free yourself from its grasp. Now, this month, it’s come to PlayStation Plus.

GamesRadar

LocalThunk shouts out "4th person to join the Balatro Discord" as their new deckbuilding tactics game gets rave reviews: "I TOLD YALL THIS GAME WOULD SLAP"

StarVaders is out now

Windows Central

GTA 6's delay just blew wide open the race for Game of the Year

Rockstar's decision to delay GTA 6 to 2026 has left the 2025 Game of the Year race wide open. With the industry's biggest contender out of the way, several standout titles are now fighting for the coveted award.

GamesRadar

"The demonic lovechild of Balatro and Buckshot Roulette" is a roguelite horror game where you out-gamble the devil and it got over 100k Steam wishlists in a week

CloverPit's demo proves why

GamesRadar

Joy and despair as game devs fight for a Switch 2 of their own, with Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai lucking into one while Balatro's LocalThunk still hunting

Good hunting, everyone

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