Balatro is a deck-building roguelike that’s played by the player playing poker hands to score points in order to defeat “blinds”. Balatro was released last year, and its reinvention of of a classic card game into a roguelike structure has proven to be both a critical and commercial success, selling over half a million copies across all of the formats for which it’s been released, perhaps finding its greatest success as a mobile game for iOS and Android. The game was also crowned “the best game of 2024” by GQ magazine, and it won ‘Game of Year and ‘ Gameplay