Balatro’s creator isn’t happy about the game’s 18-plus rating in Europe

/ PEGI says that Balatro, which has no gambling, provides skills that ‘could be transferred to a real-life game of poker.’

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The creator of the poker roguelike Balatro, who goes by the alias LocalThunk, has been sharing some frustrations over the game’s 18-plus rating in Europe.

“Since PEGI gave us an 18-plus rating for having evil playing cards maybe I should add microtransactions / loot boxes / real gambling to lower that rating to 3-plus like EA Sports FC,” LocalThunk posted on X over

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