Despite the very modest expectations one Indie developer has the in-house game on Steam to a real mega success developed.
As Game developers on their own you have it compared to the big development studios of course a lot harder. For this reason, the indie developer called “LocalThunk” to be Roguelike deck builder game in terms of success and also income, only one very low expectation.
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Nevertheless, this game has as a real top seller turns out, which of course also means that LocalThunk career plans have changed. About which one Game is this what it is?
A roguelike deck builder game is going through the roof
The Game from developer LocalThunk listen to the name “Balatro” and was originally published as purely amateur project started. Much to the developer's surprise, this one pleases Indie game one incredibly popular and has on Steam in no time really creamed off.
The Roguelike deck builder game Balatro builds fundamentally on pokerbut offers a completely different gameplay. This game is about using… Poker hands and jokers strength Builds to build and with these within the framework a campaign to defeat the opponents. The game features eight different levels of difficulty and challenges.
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The indie game is currently on Steam 97 percent positive reviews on and was already over Rated 30,000 times. If there is no positive feedback for that One man studio from “LocalThunk” is! But how often has it happened? Balatro sold so far?
Balatro sells like hotcakes
The deck builder game was released Steam so far, say and write around sold a million times. At a price of 13.99 euros, you'll definitely get a lot of it Proceeds arrive at “LocalThunk”.. The young developer had regarding his professional career previously planned to look for a job in the IT industry.
But now see the plans of the freshly baked Millionaire LocalThunk understandably different. According to its own statement, LocalThunk prepared for a yearto be “small, strange indie game” in this To be released on Steam in May. After that, the hobby developer wanted to return actively looking for an IT job. LocalThunk anticipated the release of Balatro ultimately not very muchmaybe that would Game around ten Sell it.
Now let's move on to the sales figure definitely still a few zeros added. The developer of Balatro therefore has his professional plans completely thrown overboard and want to yourself in the future completely his artistic passion dedicate.
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Source: GamePro.de