Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 21, 2025, 12:34:

Beamer wrote on Mar 21, 2025, 09:27:
While every seed is likely winnable, I do find that it's extremely RNG dependent. Getting past the round where you need 1.1M points becomes completely dependent upon whether you got one of a few different joker combinations. If you don't, there's a pretty distinct limit to how far you can go. It's a bit exhilarating to get one of those combinations and have a 100x+ multiplier, but it's like 1 in a 1000.

I completely understand having that opinion. And yes, at some level there is RNG. It is a matter of not having a strategy, but creating the correct strategy based on what the game gives you. It took me 20 hours before I got a win. Then I got five more in the next 15. The people in the Steam forums who have answered all my questions say once you learn enough that you can will a Gold Stake level game (each of the difficulty level are called "Stakes") that they can win 99% of the games at White Stake (the beginning level). And getting those large multiplies can't be a 1 in 1000 shot. If they were no one would ever be able to get to the 16 Ante (which has a base of 8.6e20) and beyond. I mean 20% of players have the achievement to score 100m chips in a hand.

But then, if you are playing the Plasma Deck you are WAY ahead of me.

I don't have my Steam stats handy, but on mobile:
Best Hand: 28B
Highest Round: 37
Highest Ante: 13
Most Money: 636
Best Streak: 6
Progress: 65%
Collection: 95%
Challenges: 95%

Pretty certain I hit an e hand on Steam.
Winning isn't really the challenge, and losing tends to feel like bad RNG when perhaps you built for 2 pair but couldn't get planet cards, but getting further is where I feel it ends up being exclusively RNG.

Beamer wrote on Mar 21, 2025, 09:27:
While every seed is likely winnable, I do find that it's extremely RNG dependent. Getting past the round where you need 1.1M points becomes completely dependent upon whether you got one of a few different joker combinations. If you don't, there's a pretty distinct limit to how far you can go. It's a bit exhilarating to get one of those combinations and have a 100x+ multiplier, but it's like 1 in a 1000.

I completely understand having that opinion. And yes, at some level there is RNG. It is a matter of not having a strategy, but creating the correct strategy based on what the game gives you. It took me 20 hours before I got a win. Then I got five more in the next 15. The people in the Steam forums who have answered all my questions say once you learn enough that you can win a Gold Stake level game (each of the difficulty level are called "Stakes") that they can win 99% of the games at White Stake (the beginning level). And getting those large multiplies can't be a 1 in 1000 shot. If they were no one would ever be able to get to the 16 Ante (which has a base of 8.6e20) and beyond. I mean 20% of players have the achievement to score 100m chips in a hand.

But then, if you are playing the Plasma Deck you are WAY ahead of me.

Although here's a weird seed I'm really struggling with on the Plasma Deck

5UP4VZ2E

You can get 3 negative jokers pretty easily, but getting chips is rough.

Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 20, 2025, 20:10:
I picked it up a week ago, I've been enjoying it. It is one of those, easy to learn, difficult to master type games. I have 6 wins in about 35 hours and while I feel like I'm "starting to get it", I'm also pretty sure there is a lot more for me to learn.

While every seed is likely winnable, I do find that it's extremely RNG dependent. Getting past the round where you need 1.1M points becomes completely dependent upon whether you got one of a few different joker combinations. If you don't, there's a pretty distinct limit to how far you can go. It's a bit exhilarating to get one of those combinations and have a 100x+ multiplier, but it's like 1 in a 1000.

Shok wrote on Mar 20, 2025, 21:00:
If you own a switch lite, this game is perfection to play on the touchscreen only with a stylus or finger.

It's also on Android and iOS

Yes! So deserved!

Jaysen wrote on Mar 20, 2025, 15:32:
Balatro - One of Canada's greatest exports.

Big win

If you own a switch lite, this game is perfection to play on the touchscreen only with a stylus or finger.

I picked it up a week ago, I've been enjoying it. It is one of those, easy to learn, difficult to master type games. I have 6 wins in about 35 hours and while I feel like I'm "starting to get it", I'm also pretty sure there is a lot more for me to learn.

Balatro - One of Canada's greatest exports.