Balatro vs Slay the Spire
Reviews on Steam
Balatro
1.1× more reviews
Critical reception
Balatro
1pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Balatro
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Slay the Spire
1.5× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Balatro
5 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
Slay the Spire
2019 · Roguelike Deckbuilder
Mega Crit · self-published
- Reviews
- 200,000
- Positive
- 96%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- libgdx
- Sales (median)
- 16.0M
- Net rev
- $228.4M
Tag overlap
75% shared — 3 shared tags, 1 only on Balatro, 1 only on Slay the Spire.
Only Balatro
Poker
Shared
Card GameRoguelikeDeckbuilder
Only Slay the Spire
Turn-Based
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
vv1.09.6M – 22.4M
units (median: 16.0M)
≈ $137.0M – $319.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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