DOOM launched on Balatro cards. Poker roguelike becomes a new platform for the iconic shooter

People love running DOOM on non-standard platforms. Sometimes they even play the shooter inside another game.

DOOM continues its journey across the most unexpected platforms. Recently, the cult shooter was embedded into an adult toy, which yielded a spicy recoil effect, and now the game has been ported inside another game using cards.

Balatro is a poker roguelike, but a user going by the handle UwUDev offered an unconventional take on this project: the cards have images, which means they can be replaced with something else. The tech enthusiast figured they could insert DOOM gameplay there.

The idea worked, but overall, such a “port” does not run very well; DOOM will lag noticeably in this game mode. Nevertheless, the concept of running the game was successfully realized, which in itself is quite an achievement.

At the same time, after such a modification, Balatro’s “card nature” hasn’t gone anywhere — the player can move cards around, and a “slice” of DOOM will shift along with them. This creative experiment was appreciated by the card game’s developer himself.

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Cover art author: UwUDev, id Software, LocalThunk, Playstack. Image source: reddit.com