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LocalThunk: ‘I have some unfortunate news: The promised 2025 Balatro 1.1 update isn’t going to come out in 2025’
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- Title
- I'm Slow - LocalThunk
- Published
- Sep 12 2025
- Word count
- 616 words
Good for him. I'm glad he's doing it the way that he needs to do it for his wellbeing, and glad that he's in a position that's feasible for him.
I want it now. Gif
Balatro was one of the free monthly games for PSN subscribers recently. I gave it a try and quickly discovered that it’s not my kind of game! But I had no idea that it’s a solo dev’s passion project and I just find that all kinds of inspiring. Kudos to LocalThunk for chasing his dreams, finding success, and keeping his life in balance afterward. I’m an aspiring solo game dev myself, miles away from ever releasing anything, but stories like these keep me going.
Just got my Completionist achievement yesterday, so this will at least give me some more time to work on that last challenge.
You got any tips for getting past the gold stake black deck? I'm trying to knock it out early so the rest of the decks are more of a breeze.
Oh gold stake is Completionist++ I think. I'm nowhere near that one. Most of my decks are no more than red stake.
I just did Completionist, which is getting all the collection items.
Ah shoot.
I've got one joker left to unlock at this point, the one for playing a hand of 5 gold cards. I figured I would have the opportunity at some point while going for gold on the decks. Good luck with the ++ run, black and plasma both try my patience haha
I have a love/hate with plasma. It's great early on, but that scaling really hurts later.
Attrition, mostly. Find a broken Joker combination and let it carry you, and don't be afraid to restart for a good Ante 1 skip.
Yeah it's the hardest by far.
In general, don't skip any blinds except if you see the money $ one in ante 1. You need to see as many shops as possible.
High Card / Pair builds are often the way to go in higher stakes because the lower discards (and on black deck, lower hands...) it's hard to reliably hit the better hands. Unfortunately Green Joker and Ride the Bus are weaker than normal.
I know it's somewhat obvious, but don't take rentals early unless run-winningly good. Having your economy sapped will slowly kill you.
I've been seeing that more and more often. I can't tell you how many times I've had a good flush or straight set up, and I end up falling due to the fact I don't effing pull em! The other hard part I'm seeing is that pairs and such don't give enough points early game. I've gotta hunt for flush/straight/full house early, and only once I've gotten past big blind can I start looking for jokers that give enough mult to make pair/two pair worth it
Congrats!
I feel like a dumbass for rushing to get Completionist++ near the beginning of the year thinking the update could drop any moment :P
First Slay the Spire 2 now Balatro?! Conspiracy, I say!
I didn't know this was a thing til today, and all it means is I have more time to beat STS and 100% Balatro
That stinks. I assume that update will include cross-progression which is currently holding me back from purchasing it on other platforms
A mod removed the leading "LocalThunk: " from the title so now it's not clear that the whole title is a quote from the post and I feel a little weird about it. I didn't want to use the original blogpost title of "I'm Slow" cause that doesn't look good for me either, and I felt didn't give enough information.
I guess if I could try again I'd title it something like "Balatro 1.1 update to be delayed beyond 2025"
Yeah, in this case removing "LocalThunk:" from the start of the title makes it look at a glance more sensationally editorialized than before, not less, at least until the article is opened and read. Very weird outcome even if I kinda get what they might've been trying to achieve with brevity or removing redundancy against Balatro already being named in the title.
Re-edited for clarity. 👍
Thanks!