Getting bored with the normal cards in Balatro? Well don’t worry about it, because now you can customize your cards with faces and designs from The Witcher 3, Dave the Diver, Vampire Survivors, and Among Us thanks to the “Friends of Jimbo” update.
The Friends of Jimbo update was announced by surprise (Aug. 27) as part of the Nintendo Direct 2024, and released today for Balatro players, completely for free. Subscribers to the Balatro newsletter and developer LocalThunk’s social media got the lowdown earlier.
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The effect adds four customizations, turning Spades into Witcher 3-themed cards, Hearts with an Among Us theme, Clubs with Vampire Survivors characters, and Diamonds with Dave the Diver (Dave the diamond?).
How to customize your cards in Balatro?
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The new option is unlockable by heading to the Options in the main menu. Click the Customize Deck option and choose which suit you want to customize. You can also select high contrast versions of each suit for better readability (and so you have no excuse when you try to play a Spade flush with the four of Clubs).
Developer LocalThunk has stated that this surprise update is just one of three big announcements about Balatro over the next few weeks, the first, The first was the promise of a major content update in 2025, revealed earlier this month. A third will apparently come later.
Balatro has been flying high as of late. Besides inspiring dozens of genre-similar homages such as Dungeons and Degenerate Gambling, a new collaboration with Dave the Diver was revealed at Gamescom. We can only speculate what the next big announcement will be for the addictive poker rogue-like.