What a wonderful spin on poker! I applaud the creativity of the developer. Definitely worth the time. With that said, there are a few issues with the game that new users will encounter:1) Steep learning curve. It will take several loses to understand how the game works. I’d say after an hour or so, you will understand the concept. 2) The graphics are too blocky/chunky. On an iPhone 12 Pro Max, I experienced great difficulty trying to tell the difference between a club/spade and heart/diamond. This difficulty has caused me to lose many hands. SUGGESTIONS (for the developer):1) Define “Run” - To unlock challenges, players must complete a “run”. I must of missed it, but I had to search the internet to define what Balatro defines as a “run”. I couldn’t find anything. Eventually, I made it past “Ante 8” to realize this was considered a “run”. I wish there was a better explanation of this. 2) Clubs/Spades and Hearts/Diamonds - I love the options to customize player decks (especially Dave the Diver!), but none offer a color/scheme with larger suit symbols. Since the graphics are lo-fi/retro, this would greatly improve the mobile user experience. I would like to see a deck with larger symbols or distinct four colors for each suit. This would make my flush hands a bit easier to play.

This is a very good game and I definitely love the concept and system it uses. However, there is some inconsistency between devices, and recently I beat green deck on white stake, and then again on red stake, but I came back on the same device 2 days later to find I did not have the deck unlocked by beating a deck on red stake. Please fix this bug! I really love the game and I really want to 100% it and try to push it to its limits.

DO NOT USE MULTIPLE DEVICES. I love this game, but it's heart breaking to win two decks after three days of being terrible at it. I was using it on my Macbook and my iPhone just fine, but opening it on the iPad destroyed all progress. The Cloud Save refused to sync with my iPhone/Macbook on the iPad, which showed up as 0% progress. Instead, when I went back to my iPhone/Macbook, those devices synced with then iPad, and now I have lost all progress...Great game, but upon looking at the resources available for this game, the developers are not warning their users of this known bug. This issue has been occuring for months, well before release, and after release: it is not even mentioned specifically in their Twitter as a buyer-beware.

This is a great game that you can play for 5 minutes or 5 hours (and believe me, you will not believe how quickly 5 hours can pass). However, either cloud sync is not a part of this game or it doesn’t work properly, because I have made a lot of progress on my iPhone but opening the game on iPad or MacBook starts me off at 0%. The achievements sync across GameCenter with no problem, but collection progress does not (so no deck unlocks on other devices). Means I’m tethered to one device, which isn’t the end of the world, but I think it’s fair to expect properly functioning Cloud Sync nowadays.