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?'"

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Balatro 1.1 is on the way, and at the Game Developers Conference this week Wout van Halderen of publisher Playstack reconfirmed that it's still on track for 2025. But even the game's own publisher is in the dark about exactly when the update is coming or what'll be in it.

Our friends at PC Gamer did their best to extract what info about Balatro 1.1 they could from van Halderen, but to no avail – in part because LocalThunk himself hasn't even provided that info. I don't think he'll let us know when [Balatro 1.1] is gonna drop. He's just gonna show up one day and say, here's 100 new jokers."

LocalThunk is a game developer who values privacy, and has notably chosen not to appear in public – even to accept his wildly popular game's trophies at The Game Awards. But he has been happy to use his game's success to lift up other indie devs, noting that "I just happen to be the lucky one to be propped up."

Dustin Bailey
Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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