Developer Localthunk has revealed that Balatro has just lately handed the 5 million gross sales milestone throughout all platforms.
“The previous few weeks have been fairly wild. To everybody who picked up Balatro after seeing it at The Recreation Awards, we hope you are having an incredible time with it,” the developer stated on Twitter. “If that is your first time selecting up an indie title, attempt to make it a behavior!”
The previous few weeks have been fairly wild.
To everybody who picked up Balatro after seeing it at @thegameawards, we hope you are having an incredible time with it!
If that is your first time selecting up an indie title, attempt to make it a behavior!
There’s some superb stuff on the market! pic.twitter.com/ZnRpWnJlTW— Balatro (@BalatroGame) January 21, 2025
In response to Balatro’s writer, Playstack, the 5 million mark would not embody downloads from Apple Arcade. Moreover, the sport was sitting at 3.5 million copies bought on the first week of December, indicating that it obtained a lift in publicity after being nominated as a Recreation of the Yr candidate at The Recreation Awards 2024.
Balatro has additionally been nominated at different awards reveals, together with the New York Recreation Awards 2025, the Steam Awards 2024, and the twenty eighth Annual Cube Awards. Balatro can be certainly one of GameSpot’s 10 finest video games of 2024.
In GameSpot’s Balatro evaluate, we stated, “Balatro’s ingenious mixture of poker and roguelite gameplay creates an intoxicating mixture that is onerous to tug away from.”