Checked: the Netherlands Balatro card, id 6502453075. Result: a paid listing whose lookup average leads this sheet. The diary below is the lab note, not a walkthrough of hands.
What the price field returned
The formatted price on the Netherlands lookup was €9.99, with a numeric price of 9.99. I treat that as a paid card. The lookup did not attach an in-app purchase flag, so this note does not claim one and does not deny one. Seller and artist name are both Playstack Ltd. The bundle id is com.playstack.balatropremium. Genre on the card is the broad label Games. A narrower shelf name was not in the fields I stored.
Size came back as 98,006,016 bytes. Divided by 1,048,576 that is about 93.5 MB, the smallest package of the five. Minimum OS is 13.5. Version is 1.3. The current version date is 5 June 2025. The first release date on the lookup is 26 September 2024. Fourteen language codes were listed, including NL and EN.
Stars, and why they sort first
averageUserRating was 4.93411. userRatingCount was 1,381. A storefront that rounds to one decimal will show 4.9. I sorted on the raw figure, so Balatro sits at NO. 1 even though Minecraft’s sample is much larger. The protocol does not weight the count. That choice is written on the method timeline so a later check can change it.
Content rating is 12+. The advisory strings on the Dutch card were: occasional or mild simulated gambling, occasional or mild mature or suggestive themes, and occasional or mild horror or fear themes. Those lines are quoted as rating descriptors. This capstan does not explain how to play for money, because the card is a game listing and this site does not host the app.
What the description actually says
The Netherlands description opens in Dutch and calls Balatro a mix of patience and poker in which the rules can be changed. It says the aim is to beat the boss with strong poker hands, to look for jokers that change the game, and to win enough chips. I am not adding drop rates, run length, or a difficulty curve. None of those numbers were on the card.
The still used on the ranking card shows a hand in progress, with a blind panel and jokers. It also carries a Dutch caption about poker and patience. That caption matches the description. I did not crop the caption off.
Fields I refused to fill
There is no download total. The App Store lookup does not publish one, and a guessed million would be a false fact. There is no star histogram, so there is no bar chart of 5-star versus 1-star votes. There is no version history beyond the current version date and the original release date.
Where the page stands now: Balatro remains NO. 1 on the raw average from 16 October 2026. A later reading of the same Netherlands card can move it. Until then the row in the verdict table is the result of this check.
How the still and the id were stored
Icon file is the 512-pixel marketing artwork from artworkUrl512. The preview is the first iPhone screenshot, requested at 800 by 450. Both files sit under images/games and are linked, not re-hosted as a playable build. The public store URL kept for the button is the Netherlands track view, with the affiliate-style query stripped of any tracking I did not need: the id in the path is enough.
If the artwork changes on Apple’s CDN, this page will keep the copy saved on 16 October 2026 until the next check. The checked date on the card is that day, not the version date of 5 June 2025.
A second pass on the same lookup, still 16 October 2026, only to show the fields that did not make the ranking line.
The track view URL is the Netherlands path for id 6502453075. I stored that URL on the button and did not swap in a United States link, because the price €9.99 belongs to the storefront I opened.
Screenshot count on the iPhone list was six, and the iPad list was also six. The card uses the first iPhone frame. The other frames stay on Apple’s page.
I compared the byte size with the other four only as a column, not as a rank. Balatro’s package is the smallest. That fact does not move NO. 1, because the sort key is the raw average 4.93411.
The description’s Dutch text mentions jokers and chips and bosses. I do not own a run log, so I do not write how many blinds a typical attempt lasts. Anyone who wants that number has to play the app on the store, which this capstan does not ship.
Language codes included NL and EN among fourteen. I did not open the app to see which code the interface actually selects on a Dutch phone.
If the average later falls below The Room Pocket’s 4.6313, the order changes and the archive gets a new date. Until that reading, the row stays NO. 1.
This capstan stores one choice in this browser: whether you accepted or declined the notice.
