This game is so addicting its like crack cocaine but laced with crack cocaine

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☑ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Perfect balance of skill and luck. Everything about this game is polished to perfection, from the art and music to satisfying button presses and animations, making Balatro incredibly addictive.

It's amazing how engaging a game about racking up a big score can be. Yes, essentially, the ultimate goal is to get as many numbers on the screen as possible, but Balatro is unique in how you go about it.

You score points using poker hands. Each hand has a fixed number of chips and a multiplier. With planet cards, you can upgrade specific hands, increasing their fixed chip values and multipliers. This allows you to create builds centered around particular hands.

Tarot cards, along with spectral cards, let you enhance your deck and economy to buy new cards.

The most crucial element of Balatro is Jokers. They are the main source for increasing chips and multipliers to boost your score. Each Joker has a unique effect that influences chips and multipliers (For example, Gains ×0.1 Mult every time a Planet card is used), changes the base game mechanics (All Flushes and Straights can be made with 4 cards), or provides other useful bonuses (+1 hand size).

The game features 150 jokers with a wide variety of effects, allowing for many different build variations. Consequently, as befits any roguelike, the game has very high replayability. This is further supported by a large number of decks with different starting conditions and difficulty increases through stakes.

I also want to note the game's excellent visual style - it feels like you're sitting at a slot machine, which suits the game perfectly.

By the way, Balatro has a peculiarity - before playing your cards, you don't see how many points you'll get. All effects influencing the final result activate sequentially with cool sound effects. How many points will this hand score? Will it cross the required threshold? You don't know the answers to these questions in advance. This adds an element of intrigue to the gameplay.

I definitely recommend trying Balatro. Currently, it's one of the best representatives of the Roguelike Deckbuilder genre.