Balatro

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Balatro.

To do: Investigate the other two posts in the thread which shows different Tarot card effects.

December, 2021#

In-Game#

• Much simpler menu designs
• Cards all have different designs
• Spades and clubs suits share the same color, as do hearts and diamonds suits, rather than clubs and diamonds being colored differently apart from spades and hearts.
• Standard playing cards used to have a rarity value on them
• The Poker Chip icon used to be red instead of white
• Deck used to appear on the lower-left corner instead of the upper-right corner, or the lower-right corner like the latest version.
• Discarding cards would put them in a discard pile section that was later removed in the August, 2022 prototype.
• The game would only tell you the type of hand selected after playing it.
• After an Ante has been defeated, instead of the Cash-Out, or shop screens, you would be presented a screen to swap out two playing cards with special ones.

August, 2022#

Title Screen#

• Is called Joker Poker instead of Balatro
• You were able to move around all of the cards in the logo instead of just the A in the final
• Start Run would become Play
  • Collection used to be Your Collection
• the Collection, and Quit buttons have switched spots
• Clicking Start Run would instantly go into the game, instead of showing the game settings menu.

In-Game#

• Round number used to be at the top
• Score minimum text and chip sprite used to be red instead of white
• You used to be able to see the amount of money earned in a Ante.
• A View Deck button is present on the left side, unlike the final which just has you click on the deck of cards
• No blind skipping is available
• You used to start the red deck with $3 instead of 0
• The Needle boss blind used to be able to appear as early as Ante 1, instead of Ante 2
• The deck buttons used to be above the hand instead of below it
• The number that appears above the cards lacks the shape under it
• Shop only has two card slots
• Rerolls used to start at just $1 instead of $5
• A scrapped Upgrade Shop feature is present.
• The Shoot the Moon card had more detail in the background instead of just white.
• The Sock and Buskin card doesn't have the white border that most Jokers in the final game have.

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Text Differences#

Boss Blind Text#

Increases all Blinds
Blind Reset

Raise all Blinds
Refresh Blinds

Sock and Buskin#

Trigger face card
2 times when card
is played and scores

Retrigger all played face cards

Business Card#

Face cards have
a 1 in 3 chance
to give $2 when
played and scores

Played face cards have a 1 in 2
chance to give $2 when scored

The Tower#

Converts up to
2 selected cards
into Stone Cards

Converts up to
1 selected card
into Stone Cards

Loyalty Card#

X4 Mult every
5 hands played
5 remaining

X4 Mult every
6 hands played
5 remaining

Shoot the Moon#

+13 Mult for each
Queen of Spades
held in your hand

Each Queen held in hand gives
+13 Mult

References#