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… That’s how we first came across games like Balatro. I saw the game the day it went up on Steam." This would have been around May or June 2023 according to Balatro dev LocalThunk's own development timeline for the game. …
Playstack, publisher of some of the most acclaimed indie games in recent years—games like Balatro, Abiotic Factor, and The Case of the Golden Idol—is likely to find itself under new ownership in a proposed sale that would see it land in the same investment portfolio as Fandom and GameSpot via Game … …
Game developers are burning through genres, high concepts , and even annoying machines that scammed you on the boardwalk as a child to fuel quick-hit Balatro-likes or Vampire Survivors-likes at the same rate the smartphone industry's sucking down rare earth minerals. …
… That's how I found a Balatro layout that's better than the one I cooked up for myself on the Deck. …
… The game itself is an immediate descendant of Rogue, the original ASCII-based dungeon crawler that we now use as shorthand when describing games like Balatro, Hades, and countless others. …
… The vibes are very good, by which I mean deeply uncomfortable, and I suspect if you have the sort of mind that found itself ensnared for months by Balatro you have a lengthy date with Mr Magpie's lift coming up. …
… It's biblically nasty in a way that scratches something deep and strange in my brain, and the games it namechecks as inspirations Buckshot Roulette, Balatro, and Inscryption are all bonafide bangers. …
… That's the team that helped bring Balatro to the masses, so you know the people there have an eye for cool games. …
… See also how publisher Playstack only found Balatro because one of its employees was checking the new releases section of Steam whenever he could. …
… Heck, the only game I can think of off the top of my head that even dealt in billions is Balatro, where my high score is a mere 48 billion—but that's chips, not dollars. …