Balatro vs Slay the Spire
Reviews on Steam
Slay the Spire
1.2× more reviews
Critical reception
Balatro
0.3pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Balatro
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Slay the Spire
2.2× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Balatro
5 years apart
Balatro
2024 · Casual
- Reviews
- 155,457
- Positive
- 98%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 7.0M
- Net rev
- $59.9M
Slay the Spire
2019 · Indie
- Reviews
- 189,240
- Positive
- 98%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 15.1M
- Net rev
- $216.1M
Tag overlap
75% shared , 15 shared tags, 5 only on Balatro, 5 only on Slay the Spire.
Only Balatro
Pixel GraphicsChoices MatterTurn-Based StrategyRelaxingArcade
Shared
Card GameRoguelike DeckbuilderRogue-likeDeckbuildingSingleplayerStrategyReplay ValueRogue-liteTurn-BasedCard BattlerCasualDifficult2DIndieProcedural Generation
Only Slay the Spire
Dungeon CrawlerRPGMouse onlyGreat SoundtrackFantasy
Sales estimates
Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.
Sales estimate
vv1.04.2M to 9.8M
units (median: 7.0M)
≈ $35.9M to $83.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.09.1M to 21.2M
units (median: 15.1M)
≈ $129.7M to $302.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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