Balatro vs Slay the Spire

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Balatro

2024 · Casual

LocalThunk · Playstack

Reviews: 160,336
Positive: 98%
Launch price: $14.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 7.2M
Net rev: $61.8M

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Slay the Spire

2019 · Indie

Mega Crit · Mega Crit

Reviews: 218,126
Positive: 97%
Launch price: $24.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 17.5M
Net rev: $249.1M

Tag overlap

75% shared , 15 shared tags, 5 only on Balatro, 5 only on Slay the Spire.

Only Balatro

Pixel Graphics Choices Matter Turn-Based Strategy Relaxing Arcade

Shared

Card Game Roguelike Deckbuilder Rogue-like DeckbuildingSingleplayerStrategy Replay Value Rogue-lite Turn-Based Card Battler Casual Difficult2DIndieProcedural Generation

Only Slay the Spire

Dungeon Crawler RPGMouse onlyGreat SoundtrackFantasy

Sales estimates

Paid-game estimates use the same transparent multi-factor Boxleiter method. Free-to-play games never receive paid unit or revenue estimates.

Sales estimate

v1.0

4.3M to 10.1M

units (median: 7.2M)

≈ $37.1M to $86.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

4.3M median 10.1M

+ How is this calculated?

160,336 reviews × NB(45) = 7,215,120 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2024	0
price_$15	0
positive_98%	+10
genre_Casual	-15
final NB	45

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

Sales estimate

v1.0

10.5M to 24.4M

units (median: 17.5M)

≈ $149.5M to $348.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

10.5M median 24.4M

+ How is this calculated?

218,126 reviews × NB(80) = 17,450,080 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2019	+15
price_$25	+5
positive_97%	+10
final NB	80

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

How comparison pages work

Verdicts are objective, they call out which game scores higher on a single measurable axis (reviews, price, sales estimate, recency). They don't claim "better." Tag overlap is computed from the public Steam tag list. Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method whose formula is shown in full on each game's page.

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