Hit deck-builder Balatro is now available for mobile

Playstack’s hit card roguelike, Balatro, is now available to purchase on mobile devices.

The game, which was released for consoles and PC earlier this year and currently has a Metacritic score of 90, is available through Apple Arcade, the App Store and Google Play.

A ‘+’ version of the game is available via the Apple Arcade service, which lets subscribers gain access to Balatro without having to pay for it on the App Store.

Celebrating two million copies sold last month, developer LocalThunk revealed that the game’s first major update would be coming in 2025.

“This update will bring new ideas and strategies to the game and as a token of huge appreciation to the game’s brilliant and passionate community, the update will be completely free,” they wrote.

VGC’s Balatro review called it “gaming’s best time thief since Vampire Survivors”.

“Balatro is an astonishingly addictive take on Poker that’s utterly impossible to put down,” we wrote. “Occasional difficulty spikes aside, it’s a piece of simplistic genius that we’ll keep on our Steam Deck forever.”