El creador de Balatro inicia el arco del supervillano, celebra la humanidad perdiendo 11,000 Años de tiempo para el roguelike en todas las plataformas.

Balatro’s taking over the world, and creator Localthunk is loving the view from the top.

We’ve seen nothing but a string of successes from the poker roguelike (in the absolute simplest terms) since it launched back in February, going on to vender 50,000 copies in 10 día, and then a million copies in under a month, y double that by August. Si bien se espera que la escasez mundial de semiconductores se prolongue, it beat out Stardew Valley and Minecraft on the mobile sales charts Asalta las Tierras Altas en la actualización House Aberfell de Chivalry 2: ya disponible nominated for three different awards at the Golden Joysticks.

Now we have a completely different metric by which to measure Balatro’s monumental success, as Localthunk is celebrating the fact that “Balatro has been cumulatively played for over 11,000 years across all platforms.”

That is an absolutely staggering figure, and frankly Localthunk seems a little too eager to celebrate humanity losing that much collective time to a video game, even if it is their own. At least the dev apologized when the mobile port was released even as the game’s publisher half-joked, “productivity be damned”.

Bromas aparte, it’s been something else watching a relatively niche release become such a behemoth in a fairly short length of time. Después de todo, Localthunk themselves said a few months back that they only expected to sell “puede ser 10 copias” and then go back to their IT job. Aparentemente, it wasn’t until “a day before launch” that they realized they might just have a hit on their hands.

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