Balatro News

Changes:
-Added 'Tags' - rewards for skipping each blind
-15 new tags in total:
Uncommon Tag, Rare Tag, Negative Tag, Foil Tag, Holographic Tag, Polychrome Tag, Investment Tag, Voucher Tag, Boss Tag, Gold Seal, Charm Tag, Meteor Tag, Enhanced Tag, Handy Tag, Garbage Tag
-Tags are automatically used at the appropriate time
-Blinds are now encountered individually. You must choose to face or skip the small blind, then face or skip the big blind, then you must face the boss blind
-Vouchers no longer restock every round. Defeating the boss blind restocks the shop voucher
-Unpurchased vouchers will reappear in the next shop until the boss blind is defeated
-Tutorial updated with this information
-Added tooltip text to High Priestess to show which card it will copy
-Added a 'copy seed' button to the game, copies seed to clipboard
-Added 'paste seed' button to new seeded runs, pastes text from clipboard
-Removed the silver spoon/hierloom vouchers
-Added Blank/[????] vouchers to replace them
-Modified some Joker text to be more consistent
-Invisible Joker now self destructs when it pays out
-Mr Bones now only saves you if you have scored at least 25% of needed chips
-Right click now deselects all cards in hand
-Click on splash screen skips animation
-Strength turns Aces into 2s
-Demo round limit now tracked via Steam
-Seeded runs show seed in red - unseeded shows black

Bugfixes:
-Fixed bug where menu 'Play' button doesn't let you select deck/continue
-Fixed bug where completed collections only had 203 of 204 unlocks
-Fixed bug where Chicot was not disabling the current boss
-Fixed bug where debuffed gold cards were returning to hand when played
-Fixed bug where the Hook crashes the game when no cards are left in hand
-Fixed bug where foil/holo/polychrome playing cards were not showing the effect on the back of the cards in some cases
-Fixed bug where nil high score was crashing the game
-Fixed bug where juggler/troubadour were adding random cards to your hand in the planetarium and tarot reading
-Fixed bug where num pad was not working as input for seeds
-Fixed bug where Raised Fist triggered on debuffed cards
-Fixed bug where duplicated stencil was not working during the next round
-Fixed Typo (reedeem -> redeem)
-Fixed bug where ride the bus was considering unscored cards
-Fixed bug where 8 ball was considering unscored cards
-Fixed bug where steel card description for The Chariot did not have '?'
-Fixed bug where debuffed cards behaved as if they had no suit
-Fixed bug where victory happened before saving the final hand result

Changes:
-Steel card added '?' to description
-Hanged man changed 'Remove' to 'Destroy' in description
-All 0s are changed to Os in the seeds

Bugfixes:
-Fixed bug where 4X 7 of clubs unlock wasn't working
-Fixed bug where buying most used joker polychrome unlock wasn't working
-Fixed bug where Chaos + reroll was increasing shop reroll value by 1
-Fixed bug where endless mode loses win streak
-Fixed bug where fire effect happens on planet card use during round
-Fixed bug where 0 and O were used in generated seeds
-Fixed bug where upgrading the shop removed 'buy and use' buttons
-Fixed bug where winning with 4 or fewer jokers unlock wasn't working

Changes:
-Updated discord link
-Added skip button to tutorial
-Updated description of Pattern and Tessellation
-Updated description of Magnet and Electromagnet
-Loyalty card less weird looking when it's ready to trigger

Bugfixes:
-Fixed bug where tutorial was causing crash
-Fixed bug where Misprint was causing crash at 0 cards left in deck

Today marks the release of the Balatro free demo! You can play up to 50 total rounds of Balatro before the demo is locked, which translates to a couple of hours of game time. Share with your friends or followers that have been waiting to try since the Beta closed!

Also, Balatro now has up to 3 profiles to track progress separately. You can use these for streaming/videos if you want to keep a separate profile.

Changes:
-Demo mode - play for free up to 50 rounds total (you can have multiple runs, demo ends when lifetime rounds reach 50)
-Profile management: You can now have up to 3 separate profiles and reset/delete them.
-Save data is now all no longer plain text and much smaller/faster to load and save or send over the internet for potential future daily challenge runs
-Faster voucher redeem animation on high gamespeed

Bugfixes:
-Fixed bug where Flower Pot was counting non-scoring cards
-Fixed bug where 8 ball spawned Planet cards
-Fixed bug where Magnet was drawing most played card to the tarot reading
-Fixed bug where throwback was copying the previous round hand remainder into the next round tarot reading
-Fixed rare crash when buying card from the shop
-Fixed bug where the raised fist still used the discarded card from The Hook
-Fixed Matador description text
-Minor stability fixes