How many copies has Balatro sold?

indielist estimates Balatro has sold between 4,268,403 and 9,959,607 units (median 7,114,005), derived from its 158,089 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Balatro?

Balatro was developed by LocalThunk and published by Playstack.

Who published Balatro?

Balatro was published by Playstack, developed by LocalThunk. See Playstack's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Balatro have on Steam?

Balatro has 158,089 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.

Is Balatro worth playing?

Steam players rate Balatro 98% positive across 158,089 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Balatro

Feb 20, 2024 Casual $14.99

Developer LocalThunk Publisher Playstack

Profile updated May 2026

Balatro, a 2024 roguelike deckbuilder, achieved over 220,000 Steam reviews with a 97% positive rating. This poker-themed card game was published by Playstack.

Balatro is a 2024 Casual game developed by LocalThunk and published by Playstack. On Steam it has gathered 158,089 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer LocalThunk with publisher Playstack is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 4.3 million to 10.0 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Balatro can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

158,089

Positive

98%

Steam appid

2379780

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

7,258

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 13:25 UTC · 24h peak 8,582

Sales estimate

v1.0

4.3M to 10.0M

units (median: 7.1M)

≈ $36.5M to $85.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

4.3M median 10.0M

+ How is this calculated?

158,089 reviews × NB(45) = 7,114,005 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.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Balatro at roughly 4.3 million to 10.0 million copies, with a median around 7.1 million, derived from its 158,089 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $60.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

55 observed days · window low $11.99

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $11.99 to $14.66. The tracked-window low was $11.99 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Balatro sold?: indielist estimates Balatro has sold between 4,268,403 and 9,959,607 units (median 7,114,005), derived from its 158,089 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Balatro?: Balatro was developed by LocalThunk and published by Playstack.
Who published Balatro?: Balatro was published by Playstack, developed by LocalThunk. See Playstack's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Balatro released?: Balatro was released in 2024.
How many reviews does Balatro have on Steam?: Balatro has 158,089 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Is Balatro worth playing?: Steam players rate Balatro 98% positive across 158,089 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Balatro can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Slay the Spire, Shogun Showdown, Dicey Dungeons, Peglin, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, LocalThunk's other releases and Playstack's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Balatro sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Balatro page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.