Indie Phenomenon Balatro Passes Another Impressive Sales Milestone | Push Square
Roguelike poker revolution Balatro has passed another major sales milestone, with 3.5 million copies sold. The surprise hit has come an extremely long way since initially being removed from the PS Store following a PEGI rating dispute.
Indie underdog stories are some of our favourites, and solo developer and artist LocalThunk certainly fits the bill. Hailing from Canada, surprisingly little is known about the creator outside of a few interviews and a Reddit AMA (we can also assume he is now very rich). That is somewhat unusual, especially considering there is a better than 0% Balatro brings home Game of the Year at Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards, up against heavy hitters like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.
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Do you see the Balatro train slowing down anytime soon? What are the odds the plucky little take on traditional card games is hailed Game of the Year 2024? Place your bets in the comments section below.
Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
Fantastic, the kind of news we should see more of in the industry. Hopefully their talent flourishes from here onwards with a firm financial foundation.
I would like it to win GOTY but I highly doubt it. Amazing game even though very frustrating a lot of the time
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