Balatro is a poker-themed roguelike deck-building game developed by LocalThunk and published by Playstack. It was released on Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on February 20, 2024, with a port to macOS on March 1. Ports for Android and iOS were released on September 26, 2024. In the game, players play poker hands to score points and defeat "blinds", while improving their deck and purchasing joker cards with a variety of effects.

Balatro was a critical and commercial success, reaching over 3.5 million copies sold in December 2024, less than a full year after release. It was later nominated for several awards at The Game Awards 2024 including Game of the Year, winning Best Independent Game.

Balatro is a roguelike deck-building game. Each playthrough of the game is called a "run." The player chooses a deck, each with unique effects, at the beginning of each one. A run is divided into eight antes with three blinds each of increasing difficulty. Blinds can either be skipped or played. A blind consists of multiple rounds, where the player has to utilize various combinations of cards to score points. To defeat blinds more easily, the player may choose to buy various cards which change the rules of the game. These items are bought in a shop in between rounds.

Each Ante consisting of three rounds: Small Blind, Big Blind, and the Boss Blind, which provide additional challenges which increase difficulty, such as debuffing the effects of certain cards or requiring the player to clear the round in only one hand. In each round, players have a limited number of poker hands within which they must beat a target score, as well as a limited number of discards in which they may replace up to five cards in their hand with different ones. The game ends if the player runs out of hands before reaching the target score.