Balatro — is a poker-themed game in the style of roguelike from a single developer, published by the British publisher PlayStack, which reported that sales of the game exceeded the $1 million mark within eight hours of its release last week.
The game reached profitability within one hour of its launch. The solo developer and artist known as LocalThunk announced that his Balatro sold 250,000 copies on PC, PS5, Xbox, and Switch in the first three days, transmits Gamesindustry.
PlayStack also reported that this is the fastest-selling game in the publisher’s eight-year history:
We’re overwhelmed by Balatro’s success, any publishing partnership is a leap of faith to some degree, and the sobering industry news of the past twelve months makes every such leap even bigger. So we realize that it is a rare privilege — to note that Balatro has reached the game’s profitability level within an hour of release.
I can’t help but praise the developer LocalThunk and the Playstack publishing team for reaching such an impressive milestone.
— Playstack CEO Harvey Elliott said.