Balatro

Playstack

About this game

Welcome to the official Balatro game!

Highly addictive and endlessly satisfying, Balatro is a magical mix of card games like Solitaire and Poker, that lets you twist the rules in ways never seen before!

Your goal is to beat Boss Blinds by making strong poker hands.
Find new Jokers that change the game and create awesome and exciting combos! Win enough chips to beat tricky bosses, and find hidden bonus hands and decks as you play.

You’ll need all the help you can get to beat the big boss, win the final challenge, and win the game.

Features:

* Remastered controls for touch screen devices; now even more satisfying!
* Each run is different: every pick-up, discard and joker can dramatically alter the course of your run.
* Multiple game items: discover over 150 Jokers, each with special powers. Use them with different decks,upgrade cards and vouchers to boost your scores.
* Different Game modes: Campaign mode and challenge mode for you to play.
* Beautiful Pixel Art: Immerse yourself in the CRT fuzz and enjoy detailed, hand-crafted pixel art.

Ratings and reviews

Love love the game, so easy to pull it out and play a quick game or accidentally play an endless run for an hour or so. My only issue, the one problem I have with the game; it makes my phone run so hot and I have to think it's doing damage to my phone. I turn the brightness down as low possible, go low power (Pixel 9 pro), close all other apps, and still my phone feels like I left it out in the sun for the afternoon. Incredible game, maybe too hot to handle

I played this game on Xbox Game Pass, really enjoyed it, and decided to get it on mobile to have a fun downtime game. Its very much a game of strategy, and some (a lot) of luck. I haven't even unlocked challenges yet, but it's so fun to build a strategy out of early cards, or try to focus on a strategy you want to try out. It really helps to verbally process out loud what you are going to do, it's very easy to misplay in this game, lol.

Way too addictive! I was skeptical when my friend recommended it, but it deserves all the awards that it has won. Don't be fooled by the ESRB rating suggesting it's gambling because it isn't. Money resets every game and is not the goal to win. It merely borrows a lot of poker terminology and redefines it all. There are no in-app purchases. This is a classic buy-to-own solo game. Score big to defeat the minimum points limit before you run out turns. It's as simple as that, while very complex too.

What’s new

EPIC New card customisations!

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