Yes, worth buying.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $11.99.
- Gameplay: 69 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 23 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 18 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews
Based on 196k player reviews · updated 3 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW: On the surface, Balatro looks like a run-of-the-mill poker-style game with colorful graphics, but the reality is that is so much more than that.
Balatro is a good game, don't get me wrong - phenomenal visual and sound design with unique gameplay - but the game is designed so poorly around the challenge decks, and the issues that plague them could so easily be ameliorated, if not fixed.
GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW: On the surface, Balatro looks like a run-of-the-mill poker-style game with colorful graphics, but the reality is that is so much more than that.
Deserves its spot on so many "Best Games for Steam Deck" lists as it runs perfectly and takes ages to drain the battery so you can keep playing without interruption.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 5 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $11.99 (−20%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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