Balatro's 1.1 update won't come out this year, so developer Localthunk can keep working at a healthy pace

"The caller timeline is going to beryllium it’s done erstwhile it’s done"

Balatro's escaped 1.1 update won't merchandise successful 2025 arsenic primitively planned, developer Localthunk has announced. There's nary caller merchandise date, but they accidental the update'll get erstwhile they've been capable to implicit it, portion continuing to enactment astatine a steadfast pace.

This update was archetypal announced by publishers Playstack successful August past year, with Localthunk subsequently revealing successful a chat with Bloomberg that it'll feature, among different stuff, immoderate caller jokers and a revamp of the Matador card. The second dishes retired a currency boost whenever you play a manus that triggers a brag blind's ability.

In a blog station astir the determination to hold the update, Localthunk wrote that it each comes down to wanting to guarantee they support connected taking attraction of their wellness and tendency to support connected processing the roguelike deckbuilder successful the mode they work, arsenic you tin work below:

The information is that I astir apt shouldn’t person announced immoderate day for the 1.1 update astatine all. I’m a hobbyist developer astatine bosom and I emotion to tinker. If you work my blog station astir the Balatro timeline, you’ll cognize that since the crippled went nationalist successful the summertime of 2023 I person go each excessively acquainted with the crunch and accent that inherently travel with nonrecreational crippled development. The struggles of pre-launch are elaborate successful that blog post, but unluckily it didn’t halt astatine launch. Immediately aft Balatro 1.0 came retired successful February 2024 I dove close successful to a large equilibrium spot (1.0.1), past into the mobile larboard of the crippled close after, and by the clip the mobile mentation came retired successful precocious 2024 I was good and genuinely burned out.

I took a interruption from everything to bash with the crippled for a fewer months until the commencement of 2025 erstwhile I precise dilatory eased myself backmost into the work. However, I chose to lone enactment connected the crippled similar I did erstwhile the task began, arsenic a hobbyist (a fewer hours per day, and not ever connected the 1.1 update), and it turns retired that it’s a batch slower than moving successful crunch mode 12 hours per time similar I was astir launch.

So, they present program to support connected moving astatine that slower cadence. "Balatro 1.1 volition inactive travel out, of that I americium certain, but the caller timeline is going to beryllium it’s done erstwhile it’s done," the developer explained, "It volition beryllium a escaped update for everyone connected each platforms erstwhile it’s ready, and it’ll astir apt request immoderate adjustments erstwhile it’s retired determination successful the satellite (like 1.0 did), but that won’t beryllium this year."

I'm gladsome to spot Localthunk putting their wellness and happiness supra each else. After all, fixed that Balatro's well-earned (not conscionable due to the fact that it led Edwin to person to constitute astir boobs) and rampant popularity isn't going to evaporate into nothingness anytime soon, there's nary consciousness successful trying to unreserved 1.1 out. Folks volition inactive beryllium present for it further down the line, and acceptable to whip retired their decks the infinitesimal it drops.