Balatro - A poker deck building roguelike

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Game is crazy addicting, and probably one of the best things I've bought in a long time. I played this with my friend earlier for many hours and just bought it tonight for myself.

You deck build cards, play poker hands that are scored to score enough to advance, getting money after each win to buy better cards at the shop. Core gameplay loop is pretty much that simple, but it's crazy fun and crazy addicting.

Highly recommend, 10/10.

Some gameplay:

 
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Haven’t bought it yet but plan on it some time. Friend of mine said the same thing as you, really good, crazy addicting.
 
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I don't understand what's happening in that video. Watched 8 minutes and he throws away a full house for two pair, throws away a straight for...two pair. What the fuck is going on?
 
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Gravel said:
I don't understand what's happening in that video. Watched 8 minutes and he throws away a full house for two pair, throws away a straight for...two pair. What the fuck is going on?
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This is who's playing

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Gravel said:
I don't understand what's happening in that video. Watched 8 minutes and he throws away a full house for two pair, throws away a straight for...two pair. What the fuck is going on?
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The game is a standard 52 card deck. You get jokers which apply to every hand played. He had a joker most likely that gave a bonus on a 2 pair. Or, he leveled up his 2 pair bonus so that it actually gabe more chips then the full house or straight would.

You also get cards that manipulate the deck so it's no longer standard. For example converting cards to spades or things like that.
 
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this should be immediately ported to mobile. Can't see myself sitting at my PC playing fancy solitaire.
 
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I've heard good things about this in my channels; will probably pick it up.

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Someone should make an actual online poker game. I bet it would do well.
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I wonder if the lack of one maybe has something to do with online gambling laws? I did see a little chatter about this game getting banned in a few countries due to gambling concerns.
 
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sleevedraw said:
I've heard good things about this in my channels; will probably pick it up.



I wonder if the lack of one maybe has something to do with online gambling laws? I did see a little chatter about this game getting banned in a few countries due to gambling concerns.
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The thing is with gambling laws, they are very clear cut and dry and easy to figure out.

Can you win things of value (this is VERY broad -- eg: you can win toilet paper?). Yes? It's gambling, IF and ONLY IF gameplay isn't *truly* free. Courts are VERY broad here. Like, having to give personal info to "play" is considered value, because your personal information has value to data brokers.

All the facebook/mobile casinos are fine because a.) gameplay is free -- you get free coins every day, but also b.) the coins you win cannot be cashed out for anything of value. They are just virtual coins, with no purpose. Number go higher. Nothing else. A and B dont both have to be true either. Gameplay can cost money but if you can't win anything of value, it's not gambling.
 
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Lost interest as soon as I realized it wasn't typical poker stuff
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It is. It just lets you be "different". I mean, its a rogue like with poker rules, but like you have jokers taht can make special things happen on special conditions. So like in the video when the guy was giving up a flush for a pair, that's likey because he had jokers that triggered extra chips or mult if you had a pair so the pair would actually be higher points. The game is all about poker + picking the right jokers/boosts that are compatible with your deck build and such.

Think of the jokers as pieces of gear that affect the cards/game.
 
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Bandwagon said:
There's tons of online poker games....

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Join the world's largest poker site, PokerStars™, with new player promotions, the biggest tournaments and more players than anywhere else online.
www.pokerstars.bet
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You have to jump through not-exactly-legal hoops if you want play on there in the US, except for a few states that have recently allowed it. Same with pretty much any poker site. It used to be legal / unregulated mostly anywhere years ago but then Karens and casinos got upset.
 
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Starting to pick up on twitch now. Cutedog_ is streaming it atm and saw a few others earlier.
 
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I agree, this game is digital heroin, stay away. I can't stop playing, send help...

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yeah, I had to uninstall it. Way to easy to just 'have one more run...'

I did get a 18m hand through lucking out on some great joker combos and figured it would take me weeks if not longer to get better than that. good time to quit.

oh yeah, just saw that it has passed 1m sales. Pretty awesome to see an indie with a simple but well executed idea strike gold.
 
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I'll post my question here as well.

Saw it was out for mobile. Worth getting for Android?

I personally dont see what the big deal is from the videos I watch. But maybe you need to play it to get hooked.
 
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