Developing your own strategy is part of the fun, but it’s nice to have a good place to start. Developing your own strategy is part of the fun, but it’s nice to have a good place to start. In Balatro, ...

Poker isn’t the most exciting game to play alone. Even against computer players in a video game, poker isn’t much fun. Balatro—out now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC—understands this. Instead of ...

Beware: The most addictive game of 2024 is coming to a device that's always within reach. Balatro, a clever combination of poker, deck-building and roguelikes, will arrive on iOS — as a standalone ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. When Balatro landed one of the extremely coveted Game of ...

Last week, I downloaded a game called Balatro for a few casual turns on Steam Deck. I haven’t been able to think of much else since I am one of those people who feels like crying when the rules of a ...

Made by a single former information technology worker, a spiced-up version of virtual poker has become the video game surprise hit of the year. “Balatro,” whose developer only goes by the screen name ...

With the launch of Balatro 1.0.1f comes a bevvy of changes that have breathed new life into a game that, honestly, was already brimming with it. Bugs have been fixed, stability and performance issues ...

For most of the year, I’ve been hearing people hype up Balatro. All I really knew about the weirdly named video game is that it’s a mix between poker and roguelikes, a gaming genre in which ...

In a year filled with massive open world RPGs and AAA live service games with ambitious season passes, it’s incredible that the title that truly captured the hearts (and free time) of players in 2024 ...

This has been an exceptionally good year for indie games. Over the course of twelve months, we’ve had the Yorkshire flavoured, irreverent Thank Goodness You’re Here! We’ve had Harold Halibut, the ...