Critic scores
90
Metacritic
Generally favorable
Aggregated from professional reviewers. OpenCritic and others are on the roadmap.
Strategy LiveActive
BALATRO
Balatro has 8,573 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 8,836 and its all-time peak is 9,687. 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 89% of the all-time peak of 9,687 players.
Playing now
8,573
24h peak
8,836
24h change
▼ 2.2%
Quick verdict
Is Balatro still alive in 2026?
PREVIOUS 24 HOURS
GALLERY & TRAILERS
1 / 13
ACROSS PLATFORMS
STEAMLIVE
Current
8.57K
24h peak
8.84K
All-time
9.69K
TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS
Watching now
374
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.
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