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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
What a great game. I hope they do DLC.
LectureMaster
Gold Member
Very impressive, apparently the GOTY nomination helped a lot.
gamerant.com
Balatro Sees Huge Sales Spike After Game Awards Nomination
Following a number of nominations at The Game Awards 2024, the addictive roguelike poker title Balatro is seeing a major sales boost.
gamerant.com
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Magic Carpet
Gold Member
It's 9.99 on the ios app store, Should I bite? Thats kind of expensive for a card game.
I have 3 months of Apple Arcade from when I bought my new iPad. There is a Balatro+ apple arcade version. I assume it's the same game.
I have 3 months of Apple Arcade from when I bought my new iPad. There is a Balatro+ apple arcade version. I assume it's the same game.
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Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
This game is Roguelite? I guess indie devs love to make Roguelites, because that’s all I see from majority of indie games these days.
Either is Roguelite or Souls-like or even both.
Kacho
Gold Member
lol you're not wrong. I hate the Souls-like bukkake we've been getting the past few years. However, I crave more Roguelites. A well done Roguelite with a good gameplay loop means hours upon hours of playtime. Lotta bang for your buck. They're not for everyone, and I understand the fatigue and criticisms, but I can't get enough personally.
clarky
Gold Member
Perfect game for the phone.
Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
I’m huge fan of FROM games but fucking hate of Souls-like games (I hate that fucking word) and I have no interest in Roguelites…..this my biggest reason why I don’t care for majority of indie games these days.
Gilgalaad
Member
this
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
I just downloaded it and it makes me play in landscape mode. Thats not good. I'll have to check and see if it has options to hold it 'normally'.
Landscape mode games might as well have to use a backbone to play.
edit-it doesn't look like it, It's landscape mode only. More chances to drop the phone during play.
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Holammer
Member
Rogue-lite/likes's ability to retain players is one of the highest in the industry and that's important for game visibility in trending algorithms.
It's also easy to produce & popular viewing content for YTbers/Streamers which feeds the algo even further. Binding of Isaac is three years old by now, but it's still big enough to support an eco-system of YTbers like Sinvicta, who can score 30k+ views daily (that's like ~300$ in adsense money).
Want to make money, make a rogue-like and call it "Hentai Simulator Dragon Shooter with Cats and Dungeons". Maybe drop the H to reach a larger audience.
Guesclin
Member
What about Hitler's Hentai Simulator Dragon Shooter With Cats and Dungeons : Dolphin edition ?
Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
That makes me hate Roguelites even more…..god damn.
clarky
Gold Member
You mean holding the phone length ways? Why would that make the phone more dropable?I just downloaded it and it makes me play in landscape mode. Thats not good. I'll have to check and see if it has options to hold it 'normally'.
Landscape mode games might as well have to use a backbone to play.
edit-it doesn't look like it, It's landscape mode only. More chances to drop the phone during play.
Guesclin
Member
"To help balance weights you may use the middle stick at your advantage"
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
Maybe it's my old decrepit hands but I prefer to play one finger controlled games in portrait mode. Anything that requires multiple buttons, sticks, in landscape.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Try some of the indie Kings Field like games then. They’re way better than indie souls likes.
MudoSkills
Volcano High Alumnus (Cum Laude)
They announced a while ago they're doing a free major update next year.
March Climber
Member
I'm not sure if he is going to. Me and
Danjin44
have went back and forth about this discussion for ages on GAF. Sometimes I wonder if he feels only one developer should be allowed to make games for the subgenre they started, which would end up in an unsustainably small and stunted videogame industry.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
I'm not sure if he is going to. Me and
His loss. Lunacid is fantastic and I doubt FromSoft ever goes back to making 1st person dungeon crawlers.
clarky
Gold Member
I think the game screen would be too small held normally. You need to rearrange you cards and jokers often.
Pro tip if you do get the game turn the game speed up to max.
Pegasus Actual
Member
Bought it and still haven't ever spelled it correctly. Can you develop dyslexia in your 40s?
Played it a bit, kind of fun. Will play it more over Christmas when I'm away from my 4090.
Played it a bit, kind of fun. Will play it more over Christmas when I'm away from my 4090.
clarky
Gold Member
Theres a lot more to it than meets the eye. Some of the runs you can go on are insane and highly satisfying.
Think im about half way through the decks.
Anyone who's done the no joker run deserves a chufty badge
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March Climber
Member
It was still worth sharing. Case in point, I just wishlisted it myself lol.
Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
Not really that has more to do with the fact I personally don’t like real time combat in first person.I'm not sure if he is going to. Me and
March Climber
Member
That's fair, my previous post's point was more in terms of you not accepting nor trusting other devs to handle the soulslike genre. You have told me before that you feel only From Software's efforts are worth playing.
Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
It just none of them were as satisfying as FROM’s Souls games and for my taste as long as they continue make one I don’t need other devs “Souls-like”.
March Climber
Member
And this will remain a wild take to me, but it is what it is, we will continue to agree to disagree on it.
Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
There are lot people say they getting sick of Souls games but I don’t feel the same way because I don’t play every Souls-like game that comes out, I mostly play FROM’s souls games and I’m more than satisfied with that.
If they ever stopped making one then I will look for alternative but for now I’m more than happy with FROM.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Fantastic game.
Makes lots of studios with tons of people, budget and 6 years of dev time look like chumps.
Makes lots of studios with tons of people, budget and 6 years of dev time look like chumps.