Balatro creator kicks off supervillain arc, celebrates humanity losing 11,000 years of time to the roguelike across all platforms
Balatro's taking over the world, and creator Localthunk is loving the view from the top.
We've seen nothing but a string of successes from the poker roguelike (in the absolute simplest terms) since it launched back in February, going on to sell 50,000 copies in 10 days, and then a million copies in under a month, and double that by August. More recently, it beat out Stardew Valley and Minecraft on the mobile sales charts and was nominated for three different awards at the Golden Joysticks.
Now we have a completely different metric by which to measure Balatro's monumental success, as Localthunk is celebrating the fact that "Balatro has been cumulatively played for over 11,000 years across all platforms."
Balatro has been cumulatively played for over 11,000 years across all platforms
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