This might just be one of the most addicting video games I've ever played. I picked this game up to keep myself busy while waiting for something else to release in a few days, and honestly if that game didn't come out I would have really spiraled deep into Balatro. I don't think I've experienced such a passing of time since reading my favorite stories, or binge watching my favorite shows for the first time. I would start a round at a reasonable 7pm and suddenly it was 1am on a work night.

I'm still wrapping up some other soloplayer content right now but I hope to return to this funny deckbuilding roguelike very soon after. Hopefully I'll approach it in a healthier way, because dear god. Guess that scary realism should really be a testament to how good it is though.

I cannot however give it a perfect score, as much as the gameplay loop definitely deserves it and the accessibility aspect of it also does, I just feel there are a couple things this game is still missing to give it more visual replayability. Along with that, I also believe this game suffers from its soundtrack and sound effects. Most if not everyone will be muting either just the music, or the entire game very shortly into their experience with it. But gameplay loop wise, excellent. Awesome job, and I really have no issue just listening to my own music while I play it so at the end I really do not care.