Critic scores

Metacritic

Generally favorable

Aggregated from professional reviewers. OpenCritic and others are on the roadmap.

Where to play

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Strategy LiveActive

BALATRO

Balatro has 8,574 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 9,772 and its all-time peak is 9,831. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.

DEV · LocalThunkPUB · Playstack2024

The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.

Solid daily community. Plenty of people to play with right now.
Currently at 87% of the all-time peak of 9,831 players.

Playing now

8,574

24h peak

9,772

24h change

▲ 3.3%

Quick verdict

Is Balatro still alive in 2026?

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PREVIOUS 24 HOURS

GALLERY & TRAILERS

1 / 13

ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

8.57K

24h peak

9.77K

All-time

9.83K

TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS

Watching now

424

Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo

No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.