Bought Balatro last week, awesome game.

QueBert

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It's a rogue like poker'ish deck building game. I played it for about 4 hours straight the night I bought it. I finished the main uhh, I don't even know what to call it. But I made it to the final round and defeated the boss only 1 time so far. With the randomness of everything it's fun, but it can be pretty frustrating. A lot of runs I struggle to make it to the 2nd blinds. There are a ton of special cards you can buy and unlock, and things can get pretty confusing. And to there being special cards, the poker aspect pretty much goes out the window quick. I'm having a blast, even if a lot of the hands I'm not fully understanding exactly how it will score until after I play it lol. There looks to be hundreds of Joker and Planet cards you can unlock and other various things. And being based on Poker, there's a lot of luck involved so it's not like most games with a campaign that takes a set number of hours. I've only unlocked a small number of things, and from how much I'm losing if I want to unlock every mode and extra card it's going to take a long time, if I can even get there. I get a little upset at how difficult it can be, but it's not frustrating to where I want to delete it lol. It's a fun game you can just pick up and play for a few minutes. Winning rounds gives you money to buy special cards. What sucks is due to the Rogue nature, when you're games over everything you just did is gone. Unlocked cards will stay unlocked, but finding a rare card, and losing the game. Then knowing you might never see the card again sucks lol. But that add's to making every game unique. I plan to try to play enough to unlock everything, which will probably take a long time.

Each uh, level? has 3 rounds, small blind, big blind and a boss battle. The boss battles are you trying to defeat a boss by winning with whatever rules he puts in place. I've already lost countless times when I was 2/3rds of the way to winning when the boss battle was "score 5k in 1 hand" and I lose. And like any good rogue game, some things will negatively effect you.

It's a hard game to describe, but so much fun. Go watch a YT video and you'll know after a minute if this is your kind of game.
 

GodisanAtheist

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I see the words "deck builder" and I immediately know its not my type of game. Glad you found a hidden gem though!
 

Jweenst1

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Your description of this rogue-like poker deck builder has got me intrigued. Reminds me of a time when I discovered a new card game called spades during a rainy camping trip. We played round after round, navigating through the twists and turns, each hand bringing its own surprises. Sure, there were moments of frustration, but the thrill of unlocking new strategies and cards kept us going. Your enthusiasm for the game is contagious—I might just have to give it a try myself!
 
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QueBert

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Jan 6, 2002
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Your description of this rogue-like poker deck builder has got me intrigued. Reminds me of a time when I discovered a new card game called spades during a rainy camping trip.

Super fun, but I took a break from it because card games can already be hard enough, but all in all the other things and I must have played 150 times in a row without beating it once. It's 95% luck so winning is just a constant struggle. If you have patients you'll like it, but if you can't handle maybe losing 150 times in a row it's not a game for you. This is made infinitely more apparent when one game I almost make it to the end (about 100 hands I think), and the next game I lose in the 2nd hand. I have made it to the last round more than a few times only to get hit with no chance to win. I know cards are random, but some games I swear it's cheating. On the flip side some games it's almost like it's cheating to help me win though lol.

While there's a tutorial it doesn't explain everything, so if you end up buying it. I suggest you watch a YT video, I learned 3 weeks in if you reorder your 5 joker cards it can greatly impact your scoring.

It does have a deck builder mode, which for whatever reason I haven't tried yet, I think you might have to unlock it. With that you can't unlock stuff but you can make a custom deck that will make winning happen probably every time
 
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