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.
Each input wears a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The color is the direction: green raises the score, red lowers it, grey sits neutral. ▼ marks a dock, ? a missing input. The exact weights stay secret. These are the inputs and the direction each pushes.
A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
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BANGER · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedBUY IT.
Yes. A BANGER at $11.99.
about 7.6h$11.99 (~)
Better value than 100% of Strategy games
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Balatro scores 98/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steamBANGERS.com/game/2379780/balatro<a href="https://steamBANGERS.com/game/2379780/balatro"><img src="https://steambangers.com/api/badge/2379780" alt="BANG Score" width="340" height="80"></a>[](https://steamBANGERS.com/game/2379780/balatro)The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It rates value, not taste. Whether it is for you is on you. How the score is computed → Data · updated 3h ago.
Lowest price we've tracked
Low $11.99High $14.99Now $11.9920% off high
Price line + bands by tier:BANGERPrice history via IsThereAnyDeal.
Peak 17.1KLow 17.1KLatest 17.1K
Daily peak concurrent players.Player counts via SteamSpy.
The lowest price on record is $11.99, set in February 2026. It has been discounted 22 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 10 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition ($4.99, scores 97) and Satisfactory ($39.99, scores 97).
About 16 percent of players finish it, which is around the middle of what the achievement data shows for games like this.