---
title: Balatro
type: Game
rating: 6
genre:
  - Roguelike
year: 2024
date: 2024-02-21
status: Finished
image: balatro.jpg
tags:
  - game
colorSortKey: [0, 125, 7]
---
 A really fun game and truly impressive indie effort that suffers from many of the same flaws (albeit less so) as Dicey Dungeons — a slow early-game, a sense of disempowering non-determinism, a lack of depth. I bet I play this a dozen (or a dozen dozen!) more times, because there's still so much going for it — runs tend to be quick, there's a lot of fun combinatorics at play, and it feels very easy to pick up. (And the aesthetics + presentation are terrific.) I'm just being a harsh judge because [[Slay the Spire]] set the bar so very, very high.