You wanna know how I got these stats?

My steam account was a lurker, and a forgotten one. And one night, this game goes off crazier than usual. My steam deck gets the upload and I play myself but walk away.

The cards don't like that. Not. One. Bit. So, me watching, Balatro takes my time away hour by hour, cards laughing while it does it.

The developer turns to me and says, "Why so studious?" Comes at me with the free update. "WHY SO STUDIOUS?"

The game takes over my life, and my mouth whispers... "Let's put an enhancement on that face card."

I don't have much more to add other than it has been quite some time since I've played a game that both co-op and single player modes have been simultaneously amazing. I can't wait to see what Larian adds in the future (hopefully a DM mode or creation option).

Edit update: Still playing, though less so.

Edit update: Stopped playing, now thinking about starting again.

Very chill tile placement game that evokes Catan and boils down city building to its core components.
UPDATE! Still an unbelievably chill tile placement game that I have put SO many hours into.

Gorgeous, full of great callbacks to old school GOTG comics and books and movies. I really love this game so much that I'm taking my time and don't really want to move forward, not because it will get harder, purely because I want to stay in it like a warm 80's blanket.