Balatro has finally gotten reclassified in Europe.

Last year, the publisher and developer of popular card game Balatro found themselves in an unusual argument with a ratings board after Balatro received an 18+ rating. But today, Balatro successfully ...

The popular deckbuilding game has won its most important hand yet with a victory over the European ratings board, which objected to its content.

Oh, Balatro, you beautiful beast. Wrongly maligned as a gambling game and temporarily pulled from the PS Store after its PEGI rating was inexplicably raised to 18, creator Localthunk, who really ...

Since then, however, Balatro's Pan European Games Information (PEGI) rating remained at 18+, until an appeal published earlier today revealed both Balatro and Luck Be a Landlord had successfully ...

“The Complaints Board concluded that, although the game explains the various hands of poker, the roguelike deck-building game contained mitigating fantastical elements that warranted a PEGI 12 ...

Still, that didn’t stop PEGI from slapping an automatic 18+ rating at the end of last year. The rating claimed that Balatro taught players how to gamble, which is not at all true. If you didn ...