No joke
There’s a particular boss encounter inBalatrothat always feels like it’s cheating a bit.
Reach an ante of eight, and bingo, you’ve won a run of Balatro.
The boss blind I keep coming a cropper with, though, is The Flint.
Sometimes it appears with a blind of just 600, but other times it’s been an enormous 22,000.
In fairness, all bosses have little tricks like this.
Some will debuff certain card suites, making them useless in your overall score count.
But Balatro isn’t simply about beating the odds with smart and intelligent card plays.
Cheating isn’t just encouraged in Balatro.
The jokers are really the heart and soul of Balatro’s deckbuilding here.
There’s no one best strategy to adopt or work towards here.
But it’s not just jokers that are vying for the attention of your hard-won earnings.
At time of writing, Balatro isn’t Steam Deck verified, but it works perfectly well.
It’s a great fit.
And to some extent, yes, it does.
Nothing is lost on defeat - and what you gain is simply better knowledge for next time.
Balatro is very generous, in that sense, even when victories are seemingly few and far between.
This review is based on a review build of the game, provided by publishers Playstack.
