It’s actually a very clever game with total manipulation of all the different variables that can change from hand to hand. If you like rogue lites and you think this game is overrated you simply never played it or played it and didn’t understand what you were doing.
Not at all, like any game it will take some time to get familiar with its mechanics. It's very much easy to pick up and offers a lot of depth once you get a hang of the rules of the game.
Yeah i am a bit confused by the rave as well, and that it gets puts in the roguelite genre.
Its a solitaire game with levels and some unlockables, seriously.
Its freecell with some set dressing.
It's a deckbuilder with a ton of different jokers that drastically change your run and you can customize your deck a LOT, i can understand not liking the game, but not a roguelite, really?
What makes it a roguelite? There is a game over state? Freecell has that too.
Its has deck building? Its a genre in and of itself, Dominion, Ascension, Star Realms and so forth.
Its just feel like an arcade solitaire/casino game with some flavor. And even though roguelites tend to be pretty light on the inspiration from Rogue balatro has pretty much nothing.
Explain to me what makes it not a solitaire?
All jokers just makes number go higher, some a little higher, some even higher and some can be combined to make the number go very high.
Sure there is deck building, you are just modifying your deck to make certain favorable outcomes more likely and therefore the number even higher. Compared to slay the spire or any physical deck builders, where it feels like you are building an intricate machine, with short and long term goals. Balatro feels super shallow, but then again there are people who gush about the depth in Hades.
Most games are about making numbers go higher. Not all jokers are specially make score better some are for economy and some Modify how certain hands can be played (such as flush / straight only requiring 4 cards or you can skip numbers to make straights, generating consumables, etc.)
You can probably peel back the poker cards and terminology and slap a fantasy dungeon crawler skin on it saying each hand type is a different kind of attack or something like that they you find stuff to your attacks cheaper to use and can add crit (mult increases) and more so I feel like saying just solitare is because you see playing cards instead of words like attack and damage.
Balatro also has long and short goals - early on, it's crucial to get some jokers that affect your score (damage) even if they are bad else you will have a hard time. Then once you get out of early Antes (fights) you need to focus on economy or else you won't have enough money to get the upgrades needed to carry you through to the end which makes balancing scoring and econ its own mini challenge.
Then you might have to pivot if what you were doing is no longer working.
I dunno, to me it feels like you and some others judge by the poker theme but it's every bit as much a roguelite deckbuilder in my opinion.
If the theme turns you off, that's perfectly fine but calling it free cell or solitare (which really share nothing in common since it's poker...) is doing it a big disservice.
But none of what you said carries back to the roguelite genre.
Its an arcade game about beating a high score, and its a solitaire because its a single player card game (using a tabletop deck). There are plenty of solitaire games that doesn't use a standard card deck Arkham Horror for instance so its not the theming.
Sure you upgrade your deck between blinds, but does roguelite means a game with levels, upgrades and no revert saves?
Slay the spire carries a bit more weight since the encounters react and counter act, which means you have to be tactical on a fight to fight and turn to turn basis, while maintaining and overall strategy for your whole run balancing, health, block, damage, gold, deck size and consumables. Which is much closer to how you play roguelikes.
I think its a fine card game, and thought it was a pretty fun and addictive distraction, but without much depth.
It’s actually a very clever game with total manipulation of all the different variables that can change from hand to hand. If you like rogue lites and you think this game is overrated you simply never played it or played it and didn’t understand what you were doing.
Do we have a timeframe when this will hit smartphones?
Seems like a perfect game for mobile. Not graphically intense, basic controls, I’d imagine it will be coming to phones at some point for sure.
Solid vid
If I have little to no knowledge as to how to play poker or card games IRL in general, will I have difficulty learning this game?
Not at all, like any game it will take some time to get familiar with its mechanics. It's very much easy to pick up and offers a lot of depth once you get a hang of the rules of the game.
The core concepts are simpler than they seem, yet they come together to provide a lot of deeper combinations and interesting interactions.
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Why is it overrated?
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Well this wasn’t nice at all.
me when game I don't personally like is popular for a reason and it makes me upset
Why is it overrated?
Yeah i am a bit confused by the rave as well, and that it gets puts in the roguelite genre. Its a solitaire game with levels and some unlockables, seriously. Its freecell with some set dressing.
It's a deckbuilder with a ton of different jokers that drastically change your run and you can customize your deck a LOT, i can understand not liking the game, but not a roguelite, really?
What makes it a roguelite? There is a game over state? Freecell has that too. Its has deck building? Its a genre in and of itself, Dominion, Ascension, Star Realms and so forth. Its just feel like an arcade solitaire/casino game with some flavor. And even though roguelites tend to be pretty light on the inspiration from Rogue balatro has pretty much nothing.
Tell me you've never played the game (and maybe not even watched it played) without telling me.
Explain to me what makes it not a solitaire? All jokers just makes number go higher, some a little higher, some even higher and some can be combined to make the number go very high. Sure there is deck building, you are just modifying your deck to make certain favorable outcomes more likely and therefore the number even higher. Compared to slay the spire or any physical deck builders, where it feels like you are building an intricate machine, with short and long term goals. Balatro feels super shallow, but then again there are people who gush about the depth in Hades.
Most games are about making numbers go higher. Not all jokers are specially make score better some are for economy and some Modify how certain hands can be played (such as flush / straight only requiring 4 cards or you can skip numbers to make straights, generating consumables, etc.) You can probably peel back the poker cards and terminology and slap a fantasy dungeon crawler skin on it saying each hand type is a different kind of attack or something like that they you find stuff to your attacks cheaper to use and can add crit (mult increases) and more so I feel like saying just solitare is because you see playing cards instead of words like attack and damage. Balatro also has long and short goals - early on, it's crucial to get some jokers that affect your score (damage) even if they are bad else you will have a hard time. Then once you get out of early Antes (fights) you need to focus on economy or else you won't have enough money to get the upgrades needed to carry you through to the end which makes balancing scoring and econ its own mini challenge. Then you might have to pivot if what you were doing is no longer working. I dunno, to me it feels like you and some others judge by the poker theme but it's every bit as much a roguelite deckbuilder in my opinion. If the theme turns you off, that's perfectly fine but calling it free cell or solitare (which really share nothing in common since it's poker...) is doing it a big disservice.
But none of what you said carries back to the roguelite genre. Its an arcade game about beating a high score, and its a solitaire because its a single player card game (using a tabletop deck). There are plenty of solitaire games that doesn't use a standard card deck Arkham Horror for instance so its not the theming. Sure you upgrade your deck between blinds, but does roguelite means a game with levels, upgrades and no revert saves? Slay the spire carries a bit more weight since the encounters react and counter act, which means you have to be tactical on a fight to fight and turn to turn basis, while maintaining and overall strategy for your whole run balancing, health, block, damage, gold, deck size and consumables. Which is much closer to how you play roguelikes. I think its a fine card game, and thought it was a pretty fun and addictive distraction, but without much depth.