Balatro's 1.1 update won't come out this year, so developer Localthunk can keep working at a healthy pace

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t know that I need or want an update. It’s not the kind of game that really needs that.

  What’s nice about Balatro as is is that it meets and surpasses your expectations. It’s effectively and infinitely scalable difficulty.

  It’s more like games of the past where when you bought the game, it was considered complete and whatever the game was, that’s what it was, flaws and all. And that requires a kind of commitment most developers aren’t willing to offer.

  If they wanted to do expansions, or new modes or levels that’s fine. But anything that interrupt the core game even if some of that isn’t perfected, is a miss for me.

  The game is, with any flaws one might identify, perfect as is. It doesn’t need an update.

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  • MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    100% this. I really love these small indie games where you buy it. And… Surprise you actually own it. It works and it doesn’t need a weekly patch for the monthly season pass.

    And then for some reason the devs actually love what they built and they keep giving updates which is amazing and an added bonus but far from expected and definitely not necessary because the game is already complete.

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah its like…

      Its more like a cartridge game. It just “is what it is”. You don’t get infinite saves. You want to remember a seed? Get a journal and write that code down and then manually enter it back in. When you spin it up, two options: continue or new.

      No balance updates no nerfs. You want to get further in the game? Get good.

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