Games like Balatro

4.1average player rating•5 games

Balatro is a slot machine for people who like maths: a deck, a joker, and a score that suddenly has too many digits. These are the run-based games that end with you saying just one more.

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Games5

Avg. Metacritic86

Avg. player rating4.1/5

Avg. playtime7h

Main genreStrategy

Released2019–2024

What these games share

The genres these 5 picks have in common, straight from their store data.

Strategy5 of 5
Indie4 of 5
Card2 of 5
RPG2 of 5

The picks

Ranked by player rating, Metacritic breaks ties.

1
Inscryption
AdventureStrategyIndie
A card game that keeps refusing to stay one. Play it knowing nothing — that's the whole point.
4.4/5Player ratingMC86View game
2
Slay the Spire
RPGStrategyCard
The blueprint for all of it. Build a deck up a mountain and watch a single relic turn it into an engine.
4.3/5Player ratingMC86View game
3
Monster Train
StrategyCard
Deckbuilding with a board attached, and combos that break the numbers even harder than Balatro's do.
4.1/5Player ratingMC86View game
4
Luck be a Landlord
StrategySimulationIndie
The other slot-machine roguelike: build synergies on the reels to make rent. Grimly funny and horribly moreish.
3.7/5Player ratingView game
5
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
RPGStrategyCasual
Blackjack as a combat system, with cards that cheat. The closest thing to Balatro's love of a broken rule.
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