Balatro is a rogue-like card game that plays just like traditional Poker with one key difference: Joker cards. These Joker cards aren't ones you just toss aside; instead, they are a giant pool of ...

A roguelike poker title that started as a side project for its maker but has now snowballed into a very popular card game sounds like a made-up success story, doesn’t it? While it brings a very unique ...

Fans of roguelites and roguelikes will be happy to see two of the genre’s standout titles--Vampire Survivors and ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

Tired of starting runs that feel like shuffling uphill in the mud in Balatro? We’ve all been there — awkward decks, low scores, and wondering if the RNG gods just simply hate you. But what if you ...

Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...

If Balatro's captivating blend of roguelike antics and poker wasn't intense enough for you, maybe this Edgar Allen Poe-esque riff on solitaire will be. The ominously titled Forbidden Solitaire drags ...