Balatro Has Sold Over 1 Million Copies Since December

Balatro has crossed a awesome milestone, trading 5 cardinal copies successful its first year. The news was shared connected X and featured a outcry retired to The Game Awards.

“To everyone who picked up Balatro aft seeing it astatine @thegameawards, we dream you’re having an astonishing clip pinch it!” nan position read. Balatro was featured prominently during The Game Awards, nominated for a number of awards including Game of nan Year and winning nan champion indie, champion debut indie, and champion mobile categories.

On X, Wout van Halderen, PR caput for Balatro diligent Playstack, added that nan crippled had sold 3.5 cardinal copies by nan first week of December. With The Game Awards taking spot nan 2nd week successful December, nan accusation is that Balatro received a important 1.5 cardinal information bump successful income aft being featured during Keighley’s Christmas Commercial telethon. Even overmuch impressive, nan 5 cardinal fig is afloat units sold and doesn’t count nan number of downloads nan crippled sewage for being connected nan Apple Arcade subscription.

Since its motorboat successful February, Balatro has quickly spell 1 of nan biggest indie hits of 2024. Developed by a azygous personification complete nan group of 2 years, nan poker roguelike has garnered a estimation for being a well-crafted “number-go-up” crippled pinch its developer leaning successful connected nan joke that it devours players’ free and not-so-free time.

In nan 11 months since nan game’s release, it’s only gotten small, cosmetic updates but developer LocalThunk has hinted a awesome gameplay-focused update is forthcoming this year.

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