I've been hearing about this game for over a year now. I finally took the plunge and now I can say: Help! I can't stop playing it! A New Beginning? We recently published an article about Duels, a ...

Developer Localthunk has finally finished the last Balatro Completionist achievement, and is now better equipped to design ...

Mr Balatro himself, developer LocalThunk, is being consumed by the very beast he unleashed on the world. He's currently ...

The developer said that accomplishing the incredibly difficult task has helped him brainstorm what to make next for the game.

Balatro developer Localthunk has "100 percent completed Balatro", making him better "equipped" for the next update.

Balatro, the deck-building poker roguelike that launched on February 20, 2024, became an instant favourite among players. Now ...

LocalThunk once again cited the Cantonese card game Big Two and the roguelike Luck Be a Landlord as major influences on ...

As Localthunk said elsewhere, "there's like a 95% chance that if the game is [free-to-play] then the main menu UI is more complicated than the actual game UI." ...

The fact that work re-started because LocalThunk couldn't play Rocket League, though, is one of those asides that's just delicious. How different the world could've been but for an internet outage.

But LocalThunk welcomes the scrutiny, and is happy to see people openly wonder why Balatro was nominated, saying that it brought more attention to both his game and indie titles in general.

“Balatro,” whose developer only goes by the screen name localthunk, bends the rules of poker the way only video games can, applying randomized powers to your deck that transform every game, ...

LocalThunk once again cited the Cantonese card game Big Two and the roguelike Luck Be a Landlord as major influences on Balatro, with development having begun at the end of 2021.