New deck builder appears on Steam today and is showered with 90 ratings in advance

Balatro: Poker roguelike appears on Steam

How does Balatro play? Before we get to the great ratings so far, a brief overview of the gameplay. Of course, you don’t just play poker in Balatro.

Nevertheless, the well-known high-stakes card game is the basis for Balatro. You rebuild your decks regular poker hands like a full house or a straight flush. To increase the value of your hand, you combine various special cards.

With Jokers, tarot cards, planetary cards and coupons You can boost individual playing cards, your current hand or your entire deck. You unlock new cards as the game progresses to find synergies for your deck.

The goal is to beat ever-increasing blinds with a limited number of hands. After each round you receive money that you can use to buy special cards in a shop.

Check out the handmade pixel art in the Balatro trailer:

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Balatro gets tons of 90s

Open Critic already has twelve ratings with one Average of 94 collected and also at Metacritic can only be found regardless of the platform tested Ratings between 90 and 100.

Abbie Stone from PC Gamer calls Balatro a deck builder who »can take a seat at the royal table with Slay the Spire and Monster Train«. A similar opinion Raven Rohwer from GamingTrend and says that Balatro is a »Must have for fans of the genre« is.

Sea Kim Snaith from GameSpew is not a run like the other and the game “simply brilliant”. Alex Orona begins his own test on NintendoWorldReport by saying he can’t stop playing.

With Balatro the deck builder genre seems to have gained a new gem. You can currently even download a demo on Steam and test the game. Are you already fans of games like Slay the Spire and will you check out Balatro? Are you excited to see how poker was implemented as a roguelike? Feel free to write us your opinion in the comments.