One of the best games of 2024 is now in Xbox Game Pass, as PlayStack has announced Balatro has joined the service and you can grab it right now.
Announced alongside a new collaboration pack (Friends of Jimbo 4), there are new collaborations across other games, including:
- Assassin’s Creed
- Bugsnax
- Critical Role
- Dead by Daylight
- Rust
- Sid Meier’s Civilization VII
- Slay the Princess
- Vault-Tec
The pack is free, with the team saying: “With Friends of Jimbo 4, Balatro’s ever-growing roster of crossovers expands even further, offering players more ways to tweak their decks, break the game, and chase the perfect run.”
Balatro is a poker-inspired roguelike deck builder all about creating powerful synergies and winning big.
Combine valid poker hands with unique Joker cards in order to create varied synergies and builds. Earn enough chips to beat devious blinds, all while uncovering hidden bonus hands and decks as you progress. You’re going to need every edge you can get in order to reach the boss blind, beat the final ante and secure victory.
Check out the key features:
- The definitive poker roguelike experience.
- Endless possibilities – every pick-up, discard and joker can dramatically alter the course of your run.
- In-depth campaign mode complete with 8 difficulties, as well as challenge and seeded runs.
- 150 Jokers, each with their own unique abilities
- 15 Decks with distinct modifiers to choose from for each run
- 5 potential variants of each Joker which add further abilities
- 22 Tarot cards variants that can enhance your regular playing cards
- 11 Planet cards that help level up your possible poker hands
- 32 Voucher cards to help provide permanent buffs for your current run
Deftly deploy an array of potent tools: different Decks, Jokers, Tarot cards, Planet cards, Spectral cards, and Vouchers. Use these versatile instruments to ignite a combo frenzy and turbocharge your poker hands, crafting electrifying, adrenaline-fueled synergies.
Balatro is out now for PC, Xbox Series S|X, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Mobile Devices.