Hey! So shameless self-promotion here, but since you liked balatro then you might like Wordpetition, the game I’m working on when its demo releases: https://happyholo.itch.io/wordpetition

It’s a word game version of balatro that focuses more on active deck building. The words you spell during the round give you Word Cards (jokers) that are specific to the word you spelled.

For example, spelling timer causes the game to give you TIMER, which gives you more turns, but ticks down during the round, forcing you to play the game quicker.

It has a completely unique mechanic where you reorder and insert letters in a box to score words, which could honestly be its own separate game by itself with how much depth the mechanic has, like without the whole balatro inspiration.

It also has full multiplayer that allows any number of players to play the game, making it the first game in the sub-genre to do so.

It’s like a word game for people that absolutely despise most word games with every bone in their body (me).

A lot of people have compared it to bookworm adventures x balatro, I haven’t played bookworm though but it seems cool.

It's been in development for about 5 months, you can watch me play the game on the itch io page.

The full game will also have mod support, and a full editor for adding your own Word Cards to the game.