Balatro
BANGER · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Cost per hour
- $1.95/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 201,042
- Critics
- 90 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 7.7h
- To 100%
- 250.7h 32.6x the story
- Finish
- 16% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 31
Price and sales
- Sales
- 24 on record
- Typical cut
- 15% off
- Steam low
- $11.99 February 2026
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 7,623 now
- Recent reviews
- 97% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 27% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
90% start to 2% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 24 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 15 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers ($4.79, scores 54) and 9 Kings ($19.99, scores 77) both come in lower.
More about Balatro
The press gave it 90; the people who bought it give it 98 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,176 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,033 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 6,461 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 7.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 251, 33 times as much.
201,042 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
At 7.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
A few reasons why I've sunk so much time into this game: The game rewards accurate decisions. In a single run, you make 1000's. Yet every single one matters. The game poses a moderate learning curve, but is balanced such that nearly every run (if played correctly) can be won. That's what makes this game so addicting for me; a constant fight against yourself to see just how much game knowledge you can leverage in a...
2 more reviews
I do not often leave reviews but this game is so worth it. I bought this game with the intent of playing it when I'm in the mood for something casual and chill, with no intention of putting more than a few dozen hours in it ever. Now over 300 hours in, I'm completely addicted to this game. Good luck, have fun.
This game is so addicting, I haven't eaten, slept, worked properly in the past 3 days
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.1 compatible graphics card, integrated graphics, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Balatro scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2379780/balatroReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.