Balatro

I picked up Balatro a little over a month ago, and have spent over 100 hours playing it. The game is insanely addictive. To concentrate better on tasks at hand, I had to uninstall it this week, but already, I am thinking about all the various ways I can progress and unlock the various decks in the game. Rambling aside, Balatro is a card game that loosely uses poker hands and betting (not real money) to place larger and larger bets. There is a fair bit of strategy involved, and you can calculate the points you will earn per round, and even predict, fairly accurately, the next spread of cards from the deck view. However, Balatro is best played without trying to predict the next card. Instead, focus on beating the system by working the complicated system of jokers that can do everything from adding multipliers to your points to conjuring up money with the right conditions. You also can’t really save the game in any meaningful way, for example, just before you make a risky move. It can only save one round at a time if, say, you need to stop in the middle of a game and continue later. However, defeating a boss blind till above 10,00,000 will unlock new decks and challenges.