Balatro vs Loop Hero
Reviews on Steam
Balatro
4.4× more reviews
Critical reception
Balatro
6pp gap
Estimated sales (median)
Balatro
2.9× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Balatro
3 years apart
Balatro
2024 · Roguelike Deckbuilder
- Reviews
- 220,000
- Positive
- 97%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- love2d
- Sales (median)
- 11.0M
- Net rev
- $94.2M
Loop Hero
2021 · Roguelike Deckbuilder
Four Quarters · Devolver Digital
- Reviews
- 50,000
- Positive
- 91%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- gamemaker_studio_2
- Sales (median)
- 3.8M
- Net rev
- $32.1M
Tag overlap
50% shared — 2 shared tags, 2 only on Balatro, 2 only on Loop Hero.
Only Balatro
Card GamePoker
Shared
RoguelikeDeckbuilder
Only Loop Hero
Auto BattlerPixel Graphics
Sales estimates
Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.
Sales estimate
vv1.06.6M – 15.4M
units (median: 11.0M)
≈ $56.5M – $131.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.02.3M – 5.3M
units (median: 3.8M)
≈ $19.3M – $45.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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