Somebody caught this on Discord and it is wild. UPDATE: Developer has responded
The lengthy arm of PEGI could have whacked one of many 12 months’s greatest eShop success tales.
Stories emerged on our Discord server this morning of a UK-based chatter making an attempt to buy Balatro at 1130 GMT, even going as far as to achieve the purpose of funds being added to their eShop stability. Earlier than the acquisition accomplished, the sport was eliminated.
There was no updates from the sport’s builders concerning the obvious ban. Though not confirmed, it’s probably that the sport’s content material (utilizing playing cards to make poker fingers in a roguelike) could have run afoul of the necessary PEGI 18+ score for playing in video games.
UPDATE 1:00pm EST: Developer PlayStack has issued a touch upon their social media (here) reiterating that they do not have an anticipated time of return, however the elimination was apparently brought on by a unilateral score change: initially the sport was assigned an 18+ score, however following discussions with the authority (not named however presumably PEGI) have been in a position to affirm a 3+ score.