Balatro developer Localthunk has “100 percent completed Balatro”, making him better “equipped” for the next update.
In a message posted to social media, Localthunk said it was “a ton of fun to hunt for Completionist++” in his own game, saying he achieved the milestone by playing “a few runs before bed”.
“It’s been a great part of my routine,” he said. “I think it’s also equipped me to better design the 1.1 update.
“Pumped to do it over again with the new content when it’s out!”
He accompanied his message with photographic proof, showing that on 20th June, he’d finally earned a gold sticker on every Joker, something less than 1 percent of all global players have managed to do thus far.
Responding to a commenter on Bluesky, Localthunk confirmed he’d reached the achievement by running a “mostly Ghost, some Painted and Yellow” deck, although “every now and then [he]’d throw in a random one too just for fun”.
Balatro recently passed 5m copies sold. That’s more than double the sales since last August, when the game passed 2m copies sold, and is estimated to have generated $4.4m two months after release on mobile alone.