Play Texas Hold 'Em with Balatro's Physical Edition on PS5, PS4 | Push Square

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Indie hit Balatro is currently holding all the cards and, in a masterful flourish, is releasing the game physically on PS5 and PS4. There is no word on a release date yet, but punters can expect each Special Edition to come with a pack of Joker/booster cards to play with, even when away from the game.

Filthy rich solo dev and creator of the game, who goes by localthunk on Twitter, announced the news, and revealed the Switch box art for the game. In the comments, localthunk laments the PEGI 18 rating the game was slapped with but has accepted the ruling. If you didn't know, there is no actual gambling in Balatro, but the gameplay is Poker-based, which temporarily caused the game to be removed from console stores at launch.

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Will you chase a Full House with Balatro's physical Special Edition? Have you played the phenomenon of this subversive card game? Let us know 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.

Waste of resources on a game that isn't even 400mb in size.

@DennisReynolds Making an environmental argument against a small order of physical copies of this game is a bit much. It’s a drop in the ocean compared to almost everything every state on the planet does every single day. I dunno, just feels like that same energy could be used to argue for nuclear disarmament or something.

Regardless of how disappointed I am in this generation in general, I can't deny indies are better than ever and have kept me invested. Pick up this game!

@DennisReynolds

I'd agree a Blu-Ray is overkill for a 400 MB game (could fit on a PS1 CD), but this is definitely a game that should be preserved in a physical edition for