No one's talking about Balatro on a Poker forum?

There was a time when Balatro would have been a big deal in the Video Game forum with people discussing strategy. Unfortunately this forum is dead. The fifth post in this forum is from January. Not enough community in here any longer to have in depth discussions on a specific game, sadly.

I've been playing this a bunch recently

best so far is getting to ante 12

addictive!

I'm moving on from StS to Balatro now. Going to dive in.

Entertaining game, I have tons of time in it. Slowly working in Completionist++. One of the few games I recommended to friends as it can be enjoyed casually on a plane ride or whenever you have a bit of downtime.

I play this game A LOT
and then when I'm not playing I watch videos of people playing

I probably need an intervention
or the NFL season to start

beat all 15 decks on white and red stake
a handful on green stake and black stake

beat the checkered deck on gold stake

got the ghost deck up to blue stake where I keep stalling out

I wish mobile would have been out when I was cracked in to it. Might try it again now that it's on phone.

There was a good amount of discussion in the Stream thread. It is obv an excellent game. I expect it to pick up a couple of Steam Awards at the end of the year.

finally beat all 15 decks on gold stake

black deck was the hardest

Nice! Great job!

People at work really pushing me to get this. Might be a good way to get off my stupid pointless time wasting games on my phone.

Feel like enjoying this game is contingent on also liking video poker.

I'm struggling to score higher than 50k.

This looks like something that I would like and spend like a hundred hours playing.

Which is why I won't play it even once.