Balatro (2024) describes itself as a “poker-inspired roguelike deck builder all about creating powerful synergies and winning big.” At least in my experience, the very last part is questionable. I tend to lose many times and then stop playing for a few days.

Many people really like this game. Within the things I follow, Bricky did a review of it. Remap did multiple streams on it. And, of course, there is a YouTube video breaking down the mathematics behind the random seeds. For most, people seem to have played it a dozen hours or more. (I’m only at six hours and might maybe hit eight hours before I give up and move on with another game.)

Discussion over Discord this Thursday at 8:30pm EDT / 7:30pm CDT / 5:30pm PDT.