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Here's How To Pronounce Balatro, Because You've Been Saying It Wrong (Sort Of)
Balatro is one of GameSpot's best games of 2024, and it has received numerous awards and nominations at shows like the 2025 ...
League of Legends' take on Balatro is one of its best mini-games yet – and it's also exactly what's wrong with this era of League of Legends
League of Legends shadow-dropped The Demon's Hand, an in-universe twist on poker-roguelike phenomenon Balatro. Interwoven ...
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Balatro's devs finally settle pronunciation of the game's name
Developers and creatives close to LocalThunk finally settled a question of how to say 'Balatro', but it's kind of a 'we're ...
Why Balatro’s developer stays anonymous
LocalThunk was at the Game Developers Conference this week meeting with other developers, but van Halderen and Cheng-Moore ...
"Balatro was a pain in the ass to market," but it started getting better once players started cracking open the demo so they could play forever
Balatro was one of the big hits of 2024, but the roguelike deckbuilder was a "pain in the ass to market" at first before a ...
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Balatro snaps up Game of the Year at GDC in a deserving victory
LocalThunk’s super popular card game Balatro earns the highest praise at GDC’s award show, getting not one, not two, but four ...
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The developer of Balatro has published a blog about his vision for developing Balatro.
You can get a better idea of what kind of game Balatro is by reading the review below. A review of the game 'Balatro' that turns into a rich deck building game with a poker + roguelike feel that ...
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Everyone, put your cards down.
Localthunk, the developer behind breakout roguelike poker game Balatro, has stepped in to resolve a bit of a scrum in the Balatro subreddit over a mod's statements on AI art. It's a bit of a wild ...
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LocalThunk gave up making Balatro for 3 months but resumed because 'I was bored but the internet was out so I couldn't play Rocket League'
Indie phenomenon Balatro beat off all-comers to be crowned ... It's a detailed, dramatic and in parts deeply amusing account of how "some kind of project" called CardGame began in December 2021 ...