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What is Balatro anyway? I keep hearing about it. Is it actually nominated for anything?
 
What is Balatro anyway? I keep hearing about it. Is it actually nominated for anything?
I believe it's been nominated, yeah. For best game design or direction something. It was mentioned in some headline somewhere.
To oversimplify it to the extreme, it's essentially a Poker Roguelike. It's also addictive as all goddamn hell, so there's that.
 
What is Balatro anyway? I keep hearing about it. Is it actually nominated for anything?
It really strips out the extraneous and gets to the heart of what's fun in semi-roguelikes, like Hades, or Griftlands, or Dead Cells.

What's left is choices, enough randomness to keep things interesting, and math...oh god help you if you love math.
 
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Gotta throw Rebirth out there as mine. it and remake both fulfilled what i imagined the game could look like as a kid. Unicorn Overlord and Astro Bot are clooooose though
 
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