“This is not an issue with the stores themselves, however, a reaction to an overnight change to Balatro‘s age rating from 3+ to 18+ by a ratings board without any advance warning, due to a mistaken belief that the game ‘contains prominent gambling imagery and material that instructs about gambling,'” publisher Playstack explained in a message on X.
Side note this article spent 5 paragraphs rephrasing it sold 500k copies instead of providing any context about the “delisting drama”.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/balatro-delisted-in-regions-rating-change/
This is exactly what the article needed, thanks!