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- The popular card game “Baratoro” will be getting a physical release on major consoles with an exclusive Joker bonus card for fans to enjoy.
- With “overwhelmingly positive” reviews on Steam, Balatro has solidified itself as a top game of 2024.
- Fans are curious about the exclusive Joker card that comes with the game and are eagerly waiting to pre-order their physical copies.
A popular roguelike card game BaratoroIt debuted on Steam in February to a great response, but is now getting a physical release on major consoles. Baratoro Although it’s based around making a hand of poker, it’s essentially a deck-building game, with a variety of collectible joker cards offering different bonuses, which has earned it a lot of praise from fans.
It was only released a few months ago, Baratoro It has received 35,000 reviews on Steam, resulting in an “overwhelmingly positive” rating on the platform, with a 97 percent approval rating across both recent and historic user reviews. BaratoroThe latest update, in May, continues to build on that strength, adding even more ways for Jokers to affect the game and increasing the number of Joker cards to 150.

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News of a physical release was revealed in a Twitter post by the game’s production team, LocalThunk, on June 8. No planned release date was mentioned, but the post stated: Baratoro The game will be available for the Nintendo Switch, as well as unspecified PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and the image attached to the post shows the cover art for the Switch version. Additionally, all physical copies of the game will come with a Joker card as an in-game bonus pack. LocalThunk revealed that all physical copies of the game will come with the same specially selected Joker card, rather than a randomly selected card.
Balatoro fans excited for physical release
Baratoro Already one of the most highly rated games of 2024, the reaction to the news of the physical console release has been pretty good, with fans most excited to see what Jokers will be available in the booster packs. Some players have even asked LocalThunk directly if the Joker cards in that pack are exclusive to the physical copy. PC and Mac players seem concerned that they will no longer have access to some game content, but the developer doesn’t seem to have confirmed if that is the case.
Pre-orders for physical copies will begin soon, Baratoro Fans will have to wait at least a little while to get their hands on the game, and in the meantime, players who got it early and haven’t played since the 1.0.0n update might want to dive into the game again. BaratoroThe developers of have been posting incredibly high scores since releasing the current build.

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Balatro from LocalThunk is a deck-building roguelike that uses poker as a launch pad and offers limitless possibilities.
- release
- February 20, 2024
- Developer
- Local Thunk
- the publisher
- Playstack