Even after you quit, it lingers on the edge of your awareness like a muffled bassline.

It glitters in the air around you like a cloud of spores.

It cannot be denied.

Horace the Endless Bear wraps himself around the top of a Christmas tree.

It can only be…

…Balatro!

If the options are extravagant, theyd be nothing without the presentation.

It makes the mouth water.

How I fear you.

But there is always time for one more go.

Brendy:Fear is definitely the right word.

It’s too good.

I can’t have it anywhere near me.

Graham:Balatro’s unheimlich mashup of poker, tarot and grander deckbuilding games brings to mind bothCalvinballandNumberwang.

And then, second: what a lot of alluring, brain-fizzing bullshit.

Balatro meant to trap me.

I uninstalled it after an hour.

Headback to the advent calendarto open another door!