• Sun. Oct 5th, 2025

Hit roguelike deckbuilder makes a million dollars in just eight hours

Hit roguelike deckbuilder makes a million dollars in just eight hours

The appetite for both roguelike games, like Vampire Survivors or Rogue Legacy, and deckbuilders, like Slay the Spire and Inscryption, never seems to disappear. When both of these genres are combined intelligently, it isn’t much of a surprise that audiences are more than interested to check out the result for themselves. This is the case with Steam hit Balatro, which uses poker cards and rules as a launching pad for an inventive, compulsively playable game that has sold an enormous amount in less than a week since its launch.

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