Balatro snaps up Game of the Year at GDC in a deserving victory
The 2025 Game Developers Conference - GDC - is in full swing in San Francisco, and we now know the winners of the Game Developer Choice Awards. It’s the 39th edition, and one game takes home the coveted GOTY award. Unsurprisingly, it’s the wildly popular Balatro. We’re huge fans of the game - just check out our Balatro review here - and are glad to see it receive even more recognition as GDC’s Game of the Year. Balatro didn’t just get the Game of the Year - oh, no, it swept the awards. The card game earned the Innovation, Best Debut, and Best Design awards on top of the overall crown. And all rightly so, given its monumentally successful debut in 2024. Continue reading Balatro snaps up Game of the Year at GDC in a deserving victory MORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: Balatro review, Best mobile card games, Best Apple Arcade games


The 2025 Game Developers Conference - GDC - is in full swing in San Francisco, and we now know the winners of the Game Developer Choice Awards. It’s the 39th edition, and one game takes home the coveted GOTY award.
Unsurprisingly, it’s the wildly popular Balatro. We’re huge fans of the game - just check out our Balatro review here - and are glad to see it receive even more recognition as GDC’s Game of the Year.
Balatro didn’t just get the Game of the Year - oh, no, it swept the awards. The card game earned the Innovation, Best Debut, and Best Design awards on top of the overall crown. And all rightly so, given its monumentally successful debut in 2024.