Latest about Balatro
Balatro creator LocalThunk stays so anonymous, a GDC attendee couldn't believe how he "crushed" the roguelike's base difficulty: "'Wow you must have played this before!'"
News "I guess you could say that"
Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke says indie poker roguelike Balatro was his 2024 GOTY, beating out Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Astro Bot, and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
News Balatro racks up yet another accolade
Even Balatro's publisher doesn't know when LocalThunk will be done with 1.1: "Maybe I should whisper in his ear, like, 'So how's those 200 new jokers coming?'"
News "I may hear it a couple days before everyone else"
"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
News Publisher Playstack "knew it was so good because we couldn't stop playing it internally"
Balatro's first big update is still on track for 2025, but it'll be "done when it's done, because it's got to be good before it's fast"
News The poker roguelike's first major gameplay update is still on track
When starting development on his hit roguelike, Balatro creator set out to recreate a made-up card game he played "thousands" of times with his friends
News It "had some pretty wacky rules and a lot of bluffing"
Balatro creator hits back at AI art spread on the roguelike's subreddit: "I don't use it in my game, I think it does real harm to artists of all kinds"
News Localthunk lands on the anti side of the AI art fence
After stepping away from Balatro for 3 months, the developer only resumed work "because I was bored but the internet was out so I couldn't play Rocket League"
News Breaks are important
