We need an UNDO button.

[TheronGodspeed]

Losing a run because you quickly mistook a spade for a club is unreasonable.

[Vyrtualis]

Or just double check your hand before you hit play. What's the rush?

[TheronGodspeed]

When runs take THIS long, a little rushing is to be expected.

The fact remains: Allowing players to lose a run because of a misclick is not exactly inspired design.

[Vyrtualis]

Can't think of any other card game that has an undo button. Play button is pretty permanent. All I can say is maybe slow your roll a bit and take the few extra seconds to look over your hand before you hit play.

[Goblin]

Mistaking a spade for a club is unreasonable, high contrast card option exists. Picking a blue card instead of a black one and then complaining sounds pretty unreasonable.

[Catman]

Originally posted by TheronGodspeed:

Losing a run because you quickly mistook a spade for a club is unreasonable.

Stay out of my card game

[Descending Minor Key Line Cliche]

Undo would break the game. Just train yourself to be more patient. Learn piano :D you will get used to taking things slow when your hands want to go fast.

[Litigious Hippo]

undo is pretty much a save scum, if you have a lucky card or other probability cards

[Кекс]

You can always try alt+f4 and restart the game if you did something bad, but that doesn't always work. And about spades and clubs - go to options - settings - game - high contrast cards, it makes diamonds yellow and clubs blue, so your cards all have very different colors.

[Kadarus]

I enabled high contrast setting and never made that mistake again.

[Harmonica]

Originally posted by Vyrtualis:

Can't think of any other card game that has an undo button. Play button is pretty permanent. All I can say is maybe slow your roll a bit and take the few extra seconds to look over your hand before you hit play.

Magic the Gathering has an undo button. If one of the longest running games has one - ie the game with some of the most experienced players on the planet - it doesn't seem unreasonable that this does!

Originally posted by Litigious Hippo:

undo is pretty much a save scum, if you have a lucky card or other probability cards

The results are seeded or would be seeded if there's an undo function (same result every time).

[Goblin]

Originally posted by Harmonica:

Originally posted by Vyrtualis:

Can't think of any other card game that has an undo button. Play button is pretty permanent. All I can say is maybe slow your roll a bit and take the few extra seconds to look over your hand before you hit play.

Magic the Gathering has an undo button. If one of the longest running games has one - ie the game with some of the most experienced players on the planet - it doesn't seem unreasonable that this does!

Originally posted by Litigious Hippo:

undo is pretty much a save scum, if you have a lucky card or other probability cards

The results are seeded or would be seeded if there's an undo function (same result every time).

If you tell most Magic players you want to undo your last turn, they'd probably kick you out.
Seeded or not, if a lucky card doesn't trigger, or your glass card breaks, you can just undo and play a different hand.

[Harmonica]

Originally posted by Goblin:

Originally posted by Harmonica:

Magic the Gathering has an undo button. If one of the longest running games has one - ie the game with some of the most experienced players on the planet - it doesn't seem unreasonable that this does!

The results are seeded or would be seeded if there's an undo function (same result every time).

If you tell most Magic players you want to undo your last turn, they'd probably kick you out.
Seeded or not, if a lucky card doesn't trigger, or your glass card breaks, you can just undo and play a different hand.

I was talking about the digital version of the game on Magic Arena. If you play the wrong thing you can often wind it back once you realise it's not going to work (not always but this is more a case of inconsistent UI).

But even in paper if you're playing with people who would kick you out for asking for a take back you're either in a competitive match where that would obviously be unlikely (although actually not breaking the rules, some players will allow it, judge rulings require take backs all the time, etc), or you're not playing people who suit your playstyle (putting it diplomatically).

For the glass card thing I guess you can specifically always randomise the breaking so it can't be scummed with an Undo. There is always a solution!

[Nico]

We certainly *don't* need the ability to savescum.

Playing too quickly, thereby making a mistake and then going "oh sh..." when the score tallies up has happened to me before... and every single time, it was my own fault. This teaches you to be careful.

[Harmonica]

Originally posted by Nico:

We certainly *don't* need the ability to savescum.

Playing too quickly, thereby making a mistake and then going "oh sh..." when the score tallies up has happened to me before... and every single time, it was my own fault. This teaches you to be careful.

Okay but do you prefer to be punished for intentionally making decisions that turned out to be incorrect, or accidentally making the wrong play? Because these are completely different things.

Honestly having this enabled if only for the first n hours of gameplay seems totally reasonable.

Also there are many excellent games that literally let you rewind gameplay no matter what you did (and I'm not just talking about Life is Strange or Blinx the Minesweeper.. :) ).

[Ronald Brain]

Originally posted by Harmonica:

Okay but do you prefer to be punished for intentionally making decisions that turned out to be incorrect, or accidentally making the wrong play? Because these are completely different things.

Honestly having this enabled if only for the first n hours of gameplay seems totally reasonable.

Also there are many excellent games that literally let you rewind gameplay no matter what you did (and I'm not just talking about Life is Strange or Blinx the Minesweeper.. :) ).

If you blunder due to misclick, hastily play and whatnots, that's on you, completely. I've lost tons of runs due to my sheer stupidity: Click Play instead of Discard, selecting only 4 cards instead of 5, high card my last hand without realizing I just took -1 hand per round, etc... and that's skill issue. The answer is NO, Undo simply doesn't work with Balatro.

If you want to brute force a particular run, just use the Seeded function. Undoing leads to tons of savescum and will mess with progression that the game already established.