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Literally a fool Creator of @BalatroGame Business/Media: balatro@playstack.com Blog: Direct contact: localthunk.contact@gmail.com

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1Dec 19, '24Delete this87.8×4M147k6.1k3.9k
2Dec 15, '24Since PEGI gave us an 18+ rating for having evil playing cards maybe I should add microtransactions/loot boxes/real gambling to lower that rating to 3+ like EA sports FC80.8×3.6M81k8.4k2.2k
3May 15, '24This rocks so dang hard69.5×3.1M25k1.6k824
4Sep 26, '24WHAT56.5×2.5M45k1.5k1.8k
5Apr 10, '25So uh Balatro is now canonically in Black Mirror54.7×2.5M108k6k3.8k
6Feb 12, '25| | I | | |_41.7×1.9M72k2.9k2.2k
7Dec 27, '24To this day I think the most productive night of my life was the evening I created the flame effect in Balatro. By 4 AM I had this40.7×1.8M58k1.9k2.2k
8Dec 16, '24Just to clear it up - I’m way more irked at the 3+ for these games with actual gambling mechanics for children than I am about Balatro having an 18+ rating If these other games wer38.5×1.7M40k2.3k883
9Nov 21, '24Almost exactly 3 years ago I started making a weirdo card game on my laptop because I had a few weeks of vacation to burn and thought it'd be a fun little project for me and my fri37.8×1.7M76k4.1k2.6k
10Sep 5, '24I’m sorry32.7×1.5M32k1.9k1.4k
11Jan 2, '25they won't believe what I've been working on instead of the Balatro update30×1.4M32k1.7k1.6k
12Dec 30, '24Does this mean we can make Balatro: GOTY edition?29.9×1.3M42k1.1k506
13Dec 18, '24Talked with PEGI and they do not see anything wrong Balatro being rated 18+, nor with EA sports FC (and similar games) having a 3+ rating Blaming EU laws, blaming storefronts, wait27.9×1.3M50k2.2k1.2k
14Oct 24, '24Balatro X Cyberpunk 2077 Balatro X The Binding of Isaac Balatro X Slay the Spire Balatro X Stardew Valley Live right now! Everywhere! For free!27.4×1.2M22k1.6k1.1k
15Dec 26, '24Looks like a few of you jokers got Balatro for Christmas! I’ll answer what surely is your first question about the game: Yes, Wheel of Fortune really is 1 in 426×1.2M39k1.2k906
16Jun 3, '25Pointless Balatro lore: When I started Balatro dev I was living in my hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan. I had a bus stop outside my apartment (similar to the one in this image) and24.2×1.1M59k2.9k3.2k
17Nov 18, '24YOOOOOOOO 5 nominations from @thegameawards!!!! Balatro X Best Mobile Game Balatro X Best Independent Game Balatro X Best Debut Indie Balatro X Best Game Direction and BALATRO X GO21.6×972k33k2.1k504
18Dec 12, '24Balatro X Don’t Starve Balatro X Warframe Balatro X Potion Craft Balatro X Cult of the Lamb Balatro X Enter the Gungeon Balatro X Divinity Original Sin 2 Balatro X Shovel Knight Ba21.2×955k32k2k2k
19Dec 13, '24LETS GOOOOO what a night, that was so much fun20.4×920k23k783285
20Oct 29, '24I once told Playstack (my publisher) that the full version of Balatro would have 120 Jokers In a meeting later that week they mentioned something about '150 Jokers' and instead of 20.1×907k36k1k965
21Oct 24, '24The one and only @ConcernedApe made the Stardew Valley card art himself! Turned out perfect :)19.6×882k29k1.1k754
22Aug 27, '24I had to keep this secret for SO LONG, but I am incredibly excited to announce some collabs with other amazing games! Balatro X Witcher Balatro X Vampire Survivors Balatro X Dave t19.4×876k21k1.8k1k
23Dec 30, '24Me whenever people say “hey since Balatro did so well maybe more people should go into indie dev”17.5×788k34k1.3k944
24Aug 6, '24From the outside this might make 0 sense but I hate the thought of Balatro becoming a true gambling game so much that when I recently created my will I stipulated that the Balatro 16.7×753k20k1.9k717
25Jun 8, '24So excited to announce that Balatro is getting a physical edition, coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox! Each special edition will come with a pack of Joker/booster car16.4×741k8.7k585398
26Feb 20, '25Balatro launched one year ago today I often say I made this game for myself and friends, but seeing so many people connect with Balatro has filled this past year with joy. Thank yo16.3×736k40k2k558
27Jun 21, '25I have 100% completed Balatro! Was a ton of fun to hunt for Completionist++. I play a few runs before bed and it's been a great part of my daily routine. I think it's also equipped15.8×709k31k963956
28Feb 24, '25After an appeal from my publisher, Balatro has been reclassified by PEGI from 18+ to 12+ This is a good step from PEGI - bringing nuance to their ratings criteria that used to be 114.1×634k45k2.3k804
29Dec 19, '24I went incognito to the Game Awards but people think I dressed in a flashy suit of playing cards, do you have any idea how funny that is12.4×560k27k548531
30Dec 21, '24This man was meant to be Jimbo12.2×549k18k8601.6k
31May 13, '24kilochad12.2×549k8.4k656382
32Jan 1, '25Yo is it 2025 yet? Where’s that Balatro content update12.1×544k23k491258
33Apr 27, '24One year ago I was preparing to publish my weird little game on Steam and look for an IT job again. I made the store page live in May and was expecting to sell maybe 10 copies It’s11.9×536k11k367268
34Sep 12, '25I wanted to give an update on the Balatro 1.1 release date: TL;DR is that it will not be coming out in 2025, it is still coming out for sure, and I'm sorry. The new timeline is "it11.3×510k13k718594
35Jan 3, '25My very prestigious Golden Thunk award for Game of the Year 2024 goes to Animal Well! 🏆 Animal Well was an engrossing experience. Dripping with style, secrets, and making me feel 10.8×486k12k5171.4k
36Oct 18, '24My actual production Balatro project folder is called “CardGame” and is still in my “Learning” directory, if that tells you anything about the expectations I had for the game10.2×460k18k841598
37May 13, '24They gave my boy Jimbo a glow up9.4×422k14k756324
38Oct 24, '24One of the candidate titles/main menu designs before I chose “Balatro” Fool’s Gambit was obviously not a great name but dragging the letters around to spell random crap was incredi9.2×414k8.3k217377
39Aug 7, '24Yo @IGN, loved the article but could you maaaaybe work on that title? My brother just texted me wondering if I’m still alive 😅9.1×410k18k857310
40May 29, '24This is Balatro (then called 'Joker Poker') in August of 2022, 8 months into Development8.9×402k7.3k421619
41Sep 24, '24Doing some prep for the big mobile launch this week 🏕️8.7×392k18k608310
42Mar 20, '25C:\Learning\Lua\CardGame8.7×390k21k846592
43Jan 24, '25Oh shit I forgot to renew my driver's license, looks like I'll be riding the bus for a little while8.6×389k14k401181
44Dec 20, '24Balatro won GOTY at the Indie Game Awards!! 🎉 I said it in the speech, but I want to reiterate how amazing the indie dev community is. Every dev I have had the pleasure of meeting8.6×386k11k443125
45Apr 5, '25Apparently Balatro videos are being rated 18+ on @YouTube now for gambling Good thing we are protecting children from knowing what a 4 of a kind is and letting them watch CS case o8.3×376k21k1.3k305
46Dec 27, '24Thanks to a crazy December with the Game Awards, 2 Steam sales, Christmas, and a Markiplier video, we surpassed our all time concurrent player peak on Steam! The previous peak was 8.2×370k12k281102
47Jun 28, '246 months before Balatro went public I barely convinced myself to spend the money and buy a Steam Deck to better develop the game for the platform. Turns out that was a pretty good 8.1×366k18k486324
48Nov 22, '24Creating the tactile and juicy feel of the cards/effects became my obsession and is the only reason Balatro exists today. By far the most fun part of making this game8.0×359k12k422357
50Jul 10, '24Brought to you by a towering wall of IF statements7.9×356k6k260110
51Jun 7, '24Yooooo let’s go!!!7.5×338k5.6k132112
52Jan 1, '25Happy new year!!! 2024 was kind of a big year for me (I saw Dune 2 in theatres)7.4×334k15k495129
53Jan 4, '25PLEASE media outlets, I know you make articles from my shitpost tweets all the time but if I had one wish it would be for you to write about the Golden Thunk award one These indies7.4×331k7.3k337187
54Nov 21, '24LETS GOOOO! Best indie game the the @GoldenJoysticks!!!7.3×328k17k856132
55Mar 28, '25Nubby's Number Factory7.3×327k11k590259
56Sep 10, '24my news feed finally has some actual hard hitting journalism6.9×310k17k1.5k271
57Nov 20, '24Since there are a lot of new faces around here I think it’s time to send out a reminder: It’s pronounced “balatro”6.7×302k12k325102
58Jun 20, '24Ah dang it FromSoft, I was planning to call my first big content update 'Balatro: Shadow of the Erdtree'6.7×301k11k368131
59Jun 8, '24That PEGI 18 rating is mocking me tho6.6×299k7.5k214146
60Apr 8, '25Anyone see Jimbo walking around with a BAFTA? My dude locked me in the bathroom and wrote his own speech6.3×283k18k884416
61Oct 8, '24Balatro has been cumulatively played for over 11,000 years across all platforms 🍌6.2×281k7.1k25287
63Jan 5, '25I think Jimbo is trying to tell us something6.0×272k9.8k23596
64Sep 13, '24So years ago I added Misprint as one of the first ~15 Jokers in the game. From day 1 it had this easter egg, I did it as a joke for a friend and we thought it was pretty funny at t5.8×262k6.2k319522
65Oct 27, '24Been trying to 100% Balatro for the first time since mobile launched and holy shit I have some words for John Balatro5.8×261k11k340223
66Dec 12, '24Neato did the awesome art for Shovel Knight, Slay the Spire, and The Binding of Isaac collabs! Incredible job yet again 🙂5.7×255k6.5k169111
67Dec 14, '24I love Animal Well, that game is absolute art. It feels so incredible to discover the world in that game, and Billy Basso is a shader gigachad. Just such a stunning experience in s5.6×250k7.4k236228
68Mar 18, '25What playing cards mean to me and why we released a normal deck of Balatro playing cards:5.5×248k6.8k363783
69Apr 10, '25Blue Prince is already one of the best games I’ve ever played and I still feel like I’m scratching the surface. Released today but lucky me I’ve been playing it all week (perks of 5.5×246k5.1k172670
70Sep 21, '24Thought I’d share a few of the small details I added into Balatro! First up: The Rocket has a lil joker silhouette in the window5.4×245k6.2k148205
71May 26, '24In the 3 months since Balatro launched, it has been collectively played for a total of 6200 years5.4×244k6.1k201106
72Apr 1, '25We had security escort him from the premises, he kept telling everyone "I'm the real Jimbo, I was born for this role" on his way out We allowed him to take a box of his personal be4.9×222k8.1k381153
73Sep 28, '24I don’t know what’s happening here but I like it4.8×216k6.1k231138
74Dec 13, '24Anyone know where to buy a sturdy trophy shelf? Asking for a friend4.8×216k8.7k21062
75Sep 4, '24You have no idea how hyped I am for this 🃏4.6×208k4.5k8483
76Aug 13, '24Charlie Brooker, creator of Black Mirror, in a recent interview with Deadline >:)4.5×203k10k411298
77May 30, '24This was the shortlist of names for Balatro. No I don't want to talk about Hyperborean Hold 'em4.3×196k4.7k144165
78Nov 27, '24It’s been a big year for Balatro on the Steam Deck!4.3×192k6.4k14863
79Mar 7, '25I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development4.2×189k5.3k4381.4k
80Mar 24, '24‘Ah yes, Balatro is a roguelike deckbuilder’ I say as I check the box on Steam for each tag, blindly ignorant of what either term means or the blood that has been spilled trying to4.1×187k4.9k254136
81Jun 13, '24This makes me feel good feelings4.1×183k7.6k401152
82Dec 24, '24Look mom, I’m in Rolling Stone!4.0×179k6.6k280255
83Dec 4, '24So this took us a while but we wanted to make sure we got it right I love playing cards (clearly) and wanted to make sure that these cards were actually playable and not just a col3.7×169k5k235434
84Jul 3, '24PSA: If you get mad at the current boss blind, you can pick it up and take your anger out on it3.6×163k6.1k299125
85Nov 2, '24Balatro won the techradar GOTY!! 😱3.5×158k7.3k30672
86Jun 26, '24I mean he's the only candidate offering +4 Mult3.3×151k4.8k276146
88Jul 10, '24Not to sound weird but I’ve been playing a lot of Balatro on the Steam Deck lately and I’m enjoying it more than I hoped I would The creative juices are really flowing again, let m3.1×141k5.2k10971
89Jun 2, '24One of the main joys of thinking about new Balatro content is that I can potentially bloat this game with even more banana lore3.1×141k5.1k12473
91Oct 24, '24Hol up does this mean that Keanu Reeves is canonically in Balatro now?3.0×136k7k17274
92Aug 4, '24This is rad as hell2.9×129k5k10792
93May 30, '24I regret not making more physical sketches during the design phase - this is the only one2.9×129k5.2k8594
94Jul 25, '24Someone got Doom to run in Balatro 🤯2.8×127k4.5k264156
95Nov 28, '24View post on X2.7×122k5.3k17538
96Aug 7, '24Thank you all for helping us reach this absurd milestone I’m so grateful that this weird game has been such a hit and allowed the Playstack team and I to do what we do! 🃏2.7×122k4.6k14319
97Oct 18, '24This is pretty surreal - and they printed it on the same page as the Crossword to boot!2.6×119k5.8k258193

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