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FOUND: Balatro - What They Never Told You

I’m hooked on this solo-dev-made dice roller on PC Game Pass: easy to learn and hard to master

If you’re looking for an addictive gambling-like with roguelike gameplay inspired by games like Balatro, Dice a Million is for you. Roll the dice, rack up as much as score as you can, and answer the mystery phone calls in this solo-developed indie available now on PC Game Pass.

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In an amazing live mash-up, composer Austin Wintory turned Ben Starr's Clair Obscur monologue into a Balatro gag

Jimbo's revenge.

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Devs behind GoldenEye, Perfect Dark and TimeSplitters are done with big shooters after getting burned by Embracer, so their next game is a Balatro-like twist on Scrabble—and you can try the demo now

Beyond Words is part of Steam Next Fest.

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This Balatro-inspired stock-trading roguelike marks the first time I've ever screwed up in a deckbuilder by making my deck too good

Insider Trading has some hard lessons to teach about making the numbers go up.

PC Gamer

All Ante Chamber DLC weapon evolutions in Vampire Survivors

Here's how you can evolve every weapon in the Balatro DLC.

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Balatro's big 1.1 update is delayed to 2026, for a very good reason: 'I'm slow'

LocalThunk says he burned out on Balatro development in late 2024, and wants to ensure that doesn't happen again.

PC Gamer

Word Play is a spelling roguelike that feels like the final boss of Wordle and it made me feel like an angry genius

Indie Spotlight | I've traded sprinting around with sword and shield for spelling words in Word Play

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This Balatro-like take on Breakout trades a paddle for a revolver, and I've had a lot of fun combo'ing bullet configurations even if I wish this was more on target

Now Playing | Kill the Brickman is published by the Vampire Survivors studio, and has a similar moreish quality

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A new "chaotic roguelike" inspired by genre top dog Balatro quietly came out months ago, but still has 100% positive Steam reviews and its free demo totally proves why

Omelet You Cook has literally perfect user reviews

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'Silksong lol': CloverPit devs delay the slot machine Balatro-like by 23 days to escape the blast radius of Silksong's launch

"We poured our hearts into our little game so of course we want to give it the best possible shot."

PC Gamer

Steam has a sale celebrating small developers, and you can get my favorite post-Balatro deckbuilder for just $2

Save on games and support small dev teams at the same time, now through August 14th.

PC Gamer

New Pocketpair-published horror game turns Balatro's live-action Jimbo actor into a jester again, devs insist it's "accidental," really: "No one will believe that we genuinely didn't mean to do this"

The devs describe it as "the most incredible happy accident"

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The League of Legends Balatro homage I thought I'd never see again is back, thanks to a major MOBA preservation win

Riot's helped preserve old in-game content within LoL's community wiki

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Balatro creator gets 'a taste of my own medicine' as he struggles in vain to score the game's hardest achievement

"Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of my actions."

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Fighting his own roguelike monster, Balatro creator says he's "146/150 for completionist++ and getting a taste of my own medicine"

God speed

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Undertale creator Toby Fox has some indie recommendations while you wait for Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4, including a visual novel he "can't wait" to see more of

From Balatro to Soul of Sovereignty, here are his faves

PC Gamer

Eric Barone's been playing lots of chess and reckons Elon Musk's 'tech tree' idea isn't awful: 'What if someone did a Balatro treatment… a chess roguelike?'

"I'm not like a huge chess guy, it's just always been something that I've wanted to be decent at."

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Is Blue Prince on Xbox Game Pass?

Blue Prince looks like it could be the next Balatro-style sleeper hit, but is it coming to Xbox Game Pass?

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Just like Tetris, someone's found Balatro's "true ending" by chasing a score so high that it actually crashes the game

"Now I can rest..."

The Independent UK

Metaphor: ReFantazio, Dragon Age, Astro Bot and an indie wave lead the top AP video games of 2024

Associated Press writer Lou Kesten has chosen his top 10 video games of 2024

USA Today Sports Media Group

The Game Awards 2024 winners: Astro Bot takes home the top prize

Astro Bot is the Game of the Year in 2024. See the full list of winners here.

PC Gamer

Cyberpunk 2077's new update secretly added a Balatro-based sidequest, among other unlisted changes

Fans uncover a few fun surprises that CDPR didn't tell us about.

TechRadar

You've got until later today to vote for your Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards

The Golden Joystick Awards Ultimate Game of the Year voting closes soon - here are all the nominees.

Evening Standard

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker warns of highly addictive mobile game that could spark a productivity crisis

Charlie Brooker says he is addicted to the hit indie game Balatro... and soon we will all be hooked on it, too

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Balatro's first big balance patch fiddles with Fibonacci and makes a mod to Odd Todd

No, I don't know what any of that means, but it's live now on Steam.

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