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Balatro creator intentionally avoided roguelikes but did eventually play and "steal from" Slay the Spire anyway: "Holy s***. Now that is a game"
By Scott McCrae published
News "This is from Slay the 🍸Spire (see? Told you I’d steal fr🌱om it)"

Before selling millions of copies, Vampire Survivors creator says he'd "given up on the idea of success," and he's not interested in making something just to be successful
By Scott McCrae published
News "I don't want to start having to look around in order to try 🧸to maintain the success"

"I was in super crunch mode": Balatro creator opens up on the toll the stress of indie development took on his "physical and mental health"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I really struggled with my physical an𝕴d mental hea🐽lth"

Balatro creator was "shocked" at his poker roguelike's high review scores: "I don’t think I would have rated Balatro higher than an 8 and I made the damn thing"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News No need to be modest

Balatro's first few hours generated over $600,000, "far more money" than the roguelike's creator had ever made: "It is the most surreal day of my life"
By Kaan Serin published
News Its launch was 10-20 times𓄧 bigger than LocalThunk thought it would be

Vampire Survivors creator admits his success was “lucky” amid a wave of cheap mobile knock-offs: “For everyone else, they have to stand out among the hundreds"
By Scott McCrae published
"Players no💜ticed me before any vulture could notice the ascension in sales."

This roguelike city-builder casts you as a benevolent Lord of the Rings villain, and its Steam Next Fest demo accidentally consumed my entire evening
By Ali Jones published
News The Kin✱g is Watching is filled with a host of lazy citizens

This exploration roguelike has no combat, and just tasks you with placing rooms on a blueprint – but its Steam Next Fest demo is delightfully devious
By Oscar Taylor-Kent published
Hands-on Blue Prince tasks you to find the 46th room in a mansion 🔯that has just 45 – oh, and its layout completely changes every single day
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