Balatro: All Cheats & How To Use Them

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So you want to cheat at . The pseudo-poker roguelike has rightfully become one of the most popular games of 2024, earning a Game of the Year nomination at The Game Awards. One of the factors that makes it so engaging is its difficulty. It's difficult to win some of the high-scoring Blinds, difficult to unlock all the Jokers, and monumentally difficult to get through all the achivements. Cheats can help with all that and more.

Either way, it's important to note that there's no built-in cheat feature for . If you want to do it, you'll have to mess around in the game's files a bit. Thankfully, it's an easy enough process that almost anyone can pull it off, and it's almost impossible to mess up. (And even if you do, there's an easy fix.) Plus, activating cheats like this doesn't disable achievements. Read on to learn everything you need to start cheating in by accessing the debug menu.

The first thing you'll need to start using cheats in ('s best indie game of 2024) is a piece of file archiving/compression software like 7-Zip. 7-Zip is totally free, and is the only additional install you'll need. Unfortunately, this method only works on PC; console and mobile players don't have the option.

Next, open Steam and find in your library. Right-click on it, click Manage, and then click Browse local files. Find the Balatro.exe file, and click 7-Zip to open the sub-menu, where you'll select Open archive (the first one).

If you don't see 7-Zip in the initial menu, then click the "" tab at the bottom to open a larger menu. 7-Zip should appear there; if it still doesn't, confirm it's installed, then try restarting your PC.

You'll now see all of 's files in the 7-Zip window. For our next trick, we'll be opening and modifying one of those files to unlock the debug menu and enable cheats.

Now, you should see an array of files before you in the 7-Zip window. Click on the folder called “,” andfind a file named controller.lua inside. Click it and drag it to another folder on your