Both roguelikes and deck-builders are all the rage in indie PC games right now, but I find it hard to engage with both genres. Aside from dalliances with smash hits like Hades and Hearthstone, they simply haven’t clicked with me, either being too dense or too capriciously randomized. Indie darling of the moment Balatro managed to break through my reticence. First by being approachable, basing its mechanics on well-known poker hands with a standard 52-card deck. And second, by letting me completely break those mechanics. Balatro(Latin for fool or joker) looks complicated upon first glance, with…