Many would argue that Balatro was one of 2024's finest games. The insanely addictive card-based indie ended up on numerous Game of the Year lists — including our own — and its excellence has been rewarded with 5 million sales.
Balatro's a bona fide hit, then, and we're sure that its appearance at The Game Awards 2024 — where it nabbed three gongs — certainly helped.
"The last few weeks have been pretty wild," reads the official Balatro X account. "To everyone who picked up Balatro after seeing it at @thegameawards, we hope you're having an amazing time with it!"
"If this is your first time picking up an indie title, try to make it a habit! There's some amazing stuff out there!," the post concludes. And just for the record, we'd agree!
It's obviously great to see a title like Balatro strike such a chord — a game that executes a relatively simple concept extremely well, before building on those foundations to create something brilliantly unique. And generally speaking, this is what often makes the best indie releases so appealing.
Are you a big Balatro fan? Are you happy to see it do so well? Pick a card, any card, in the comments section below.
[source x.com, via nintendolife.com]
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Amazing game. Played the trial way back. Bought it and 70 wins/150 hours later I still play it. All for like 12 bucks.
It’s entertaining. But never really understood the hype about it. Been playing the Apple Arcade version and did a few runs for a week or so but never really got hooked.
I really can't stand card games irl, and Balatro is no exception, but I'd buy it on a cart. They should do that.
I honestly don’t think I’ve ever really been interested in indie games aside from Limbo or Inside? And even then, it’s my brother who played those and I just watched…They just never really stood out to me to be honest.
People that complain that there is no more creativity in modern gaming don't play indie games.
The game is a lot of fun, and he's right, pick up and try more indies, there's a lot of great games out there.
It’s the perfect mobile game. Been loving it. Huge congrats for the massive sales accomplishment!
@ATaco one of my department managers at work a few months ago actually said to me, "there's no games coming out lately". The autistic urge to list every cool arse indie game that I know he'll have never heard of because they're not Call of Duty was almost too great.
@ATaco Well said 👍
I watched gameplay and it's literally just a card game. Most indies nowadays just consist of card games, rogue likes and metroidvanias of some kind. The last one I played that I thought was really fun was Dave the diver and apparently it had a bit of an argument on whether it was actually an indie or not lol
I already reach the point where I don't care if a game created by indies like one guy in his basement or a team with 1000 people. If i see games that looks fun or interesting for me then i will try them.
And i've tried some card games but i never get the excitement or fun from them. So i've accepted the fact that card game is just not my cup of tea, which means for Balatro i'm not gonna try it
But hey, congrats for Balatro devs and good news for people who loves the game.
The real GOTY.
Well I ask dev to fix constant crashing in offline mode.
But anyway, it's grossly overrated imo. I usually fall for roguelikes/roguelites HARD but this one I just don't get. It's fun but I had enough after dozen runs or so.
200+ hours. I hit the wall, where there is impossible to get Joker combination I need to beat Ante 11, but I'm still trying...
It would be more fun if it gets some new jokers or upgrade system, but still there is a few things to discover...
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