It’s Balatro, not Balatro.
Ever since its release and subsequent success in 2024, indie hit Balatro has garnered attention for a somewhat surprising and amusing reason. That being how you’re actually supposed to pronounce the title correctly. Is it ‘Bah-LAH-trow’? ‘BAH-luh-trow’? ‘Bay-LAH-troo’? Yeah okay, no one’s saying that last one…
Well, we now have an official answer courtesy of Stephen Totilo over at Game File (thanks, Push Square). While at GDC, Totilo met with Naman Budhwar, head of video marketing at Balatro publisher PlayStack. According to Budwar, Balatro developer LocalThunk pronounced the game ‘BAH-luh-trow’. We don’t know about you, but we’ve been pronouncing it ‘Bah-LAH-trow’ this whole time.
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