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Game of the Year 2024: Balatro

Game of the Year 2024: Balatro

By Robin Valentine published

🏆 Hands down the best game of the year.

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A pack of real life Balatro cards.

Turns out that Balatro, like Tetris before it, can only be 'finished' by scoring so high it crashes the game

By Jonathan Bolding published

News When the score turns from a number to nan, you win.

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Hades 2

I was skeptical of Supergiant making a sequel, but Hades 2 has more than earned its place in the roguelike pantheon, and it's not even finished yet

By Harvey Randall published

🏆 Death to Chronos.

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Best Roguelike 2024: Caves of Qud

Best Roguelike 2024: Caves of Qud

By Lincoln Carpenter published

🏆 Genre-defining weirdness.

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Shogun Showdown

This finely-honed samurai strategy game deserves a place in the roguelike hall of fame this year just as much as Balatro

By Robin Valentine published

🏆 Seriously slick samurai strategy in Shogun Showdown.

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The jester from Balatro, portrayed in unsettling detail in real life, wears an uncanny smile and stares at the viewer.

PEGI digs its heels in over Balatro's 18+ rating, according to its disappointed dev: 'blaming EU laws, blaming storefronts, waiting for the future'

By Harvey Randall published

News Let's (not) go gambling.

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Shiren the Wanderer art

Shiren the Wanderer's simple graphics disguise a systems-dense roguelike full of the emergent stories I love the genre for

By Kerry Brunskill published

Tall Tales The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island can spin an epic yarn without saying a single word.

Tall Tales
A ball falling down a ferris wheel pachinko board in Ballionaire.

Ballionaire review: Pachinko chaos and deckbuilding strategy collide in this short but sweet roguelike

By Abbie Stone published

ON THE BALL What do you get when you combine a tree, a piggy bank, a trampoline, and a pachinko board?

ON THE BALL
Balatro's Jimbo looks none too pleased as he holds up a card in a black-leathered hand.

Balatro dev swings at PEGI for rating it 18+ because of its 'evil playing cards', jokes that he should 'add microtransactions' like EA Sports FC 25 to 'lower that rating to a 3+'

By Harvey Randall published

News "If these other games were rated properly, I'd happily accept the weirdo 18+."

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Junya Ishizaki next to an image from Elden Ring: Nightreign

Elden Ring: Nightreign's director remembers the one big bit of advice he got from Hidetaka Miyazaki: 'Do it as you please'

By Wes Fenlon published

News Who could ask for a better show of support from the big boss himself?

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