I'm not a full-time Balatro player, but I do have occasional spells where Jimbo lunges from my screen and throttles me until I've sunk about 50 extra hours into it. My doctors tell me that's a ...

With the astonishing breakout success of Balatro, it's no surprise that there's plenty of games taking cues from its dopamine-inducing format of watching numbers ratchet into the billions and beyond.