Bargain Balatro-like deckbuilder launches to 91% Steam rating, and bundles with some of the best fake-gambling games

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If you can't get enough of playing a twisted take on traditional card games, you can chuck five bucks to a spooky jester to do it again.

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Can you believe it's been nearly two years since Balatro did bewildering things to our industry as one of the best card games in recent memory? The sort of game you never pictured being quite as big as it was, despite it being more of an actual game than whatever largely interactive movie the bigger publishers put out around the same time. Anyway, like CloverPit, Ball X Pit, and Slots and Daggers have throughout this year, This Ain't Even Poker, Ya Joker, another zany pseudo-gambling game with a demonic jester and an acronym we won't be using here, has surfaced to sap what time remains of those lazy festive evenings, and the Steam reviews are coming in strong.

Read the full story on PCGamesN: Bargain Balatro-like deckbuilder launches to 91% Steam rating, and bundles with some of the best fake-gambling games

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Can you believe it's been nearly two years since Balatro did bewildering things to our industry as one of the best card games in recent memory? The sort of game you never pictured being quite as big as it was, despite it being more of an actual game than whatever largely interactive movie the bigger publishers put out around the same time. Anyway, like CloverPit, Ball X Pit, and Slots and Daggers have throughout this year, This Ain't Even Poker, Ya Joker, another zany pseudo-gambling game with a demonic jester and an acronym we won't be using here, has surfaced to sap what time remains of those lazy festive evenings, and the Steam reviews are coming in strong. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Bargain Balatro-like deckbuilder launches to 91% Steam rating, and bundles with some of the best fake-gambling games

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14 December 2025, 10:37 am

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If you can't get enough of playing a twisted take on traditional card games, you can chuck five bucks to a spooky jester to do it again.


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Can you believe it's been nearly two years since Balatro did bewildering things to our industry as one of the best card games in recent memory? The sort of game you never pictured being quite as big as it was, despite it being more of an actual game than whatever largely interactive movie the bigger publishers put out around the same time. Anyway, like CloverPit, Ball X Pit, and Slots and Daggers have throughout this year, This Ain't Even Poker, Ya Joker, another zany pseudo-gambling game with a demonic jester and an acronym we won't be using here, has surfaced to sap what time remains of those lazy festive evenings, and the Steam reviews are coming in strong.

Read the full story on PCGamesN: Bargain Balatro-like deckbuilder launches to 91% Steam rating, and bundles with some of the best fake-gambling games


content_text: Can you believe it's been nearly two years since Balatro did bewildering things to our industry as one of the best card games in recent memory? The sort of game you never pictured being quite as big as it was, despite it being more of an actual game than whatever largely interactive movie the bigger publishers put out around the same time. Anyway, like CloverPit, Ball X Pit, and Slots and Daggers have throughout this year, This Ain't Even Poker, Ya Joker, another zany pseudo-gambling game with a demonic jester and an acronym we won't be using here, has surfaced to sap what time remains of those lazy festive evenings, and the Steam reviews are coming in strong. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Bargain Balatro-like deckbuilder launches to 91% Steam rating, and bundles with some of the best fake-gambling games
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