A Balatro quality of life mod that makes the mouse and gamepad controls more efficient and easier to use, reducing hand strain. This is possibly one of the most essential mods for any regular Balatro player.
I highly recommend using Handy instead. It was released last August and has been consistently maintained since then, has more features, includes many shortcut operations, and allows highly customizable key bindings, almost outperforming my mod in every way. As of July 12, 2025, the drawbacks are: slightly cumbersome settings, and somewhat different controls (mainly the inability to continuously select and cancel cards during a single right-click hold, even if the option "Presets -> Pre-made presets -> Better Mouse and Gamepad" is selected, making it less smooth than my mod).
On right-handed mice, Mouse 2 corresponds to the right mouse button.
Mouse 3 is the middle mouse button, usually a clickable scroll wheel.
Mouse 4 and Mouse 5 are less common, but are usually found by the
user's thumb.
| Binding | Function |
|---|---|
Mouse 2 |
Deselect all cards (same as the unmodified game) |
Mouse 2 (Hold/Drag) |
Select multiple cards |
Mouse 3 |
Open menu (same as ESC) |
Mouse 3 (Hold) |
Start new run (same as R) |
Mouse Wheel Up |
Play hand |
Mouse Wheel Down |
Discard cards |
Mouse 4 |
Sort hand by suit |
Mouse 5 |
Sort hand by value |
Gamepad bindings bind to the mouse bindings, allowing toggling via the
Features config menu. See Configuration for more details.
| Binding | Function |
|---|---|
B Button (Hold) |
same as 'Mouse 2 (Hold)' |
Right Joystick (Click/Hold) |
same as 'Mouse 3'/'Mouse 3 (Hold)' |
Left Shoulder Button |
Same as 'Mouse 4' |
Right Shoulder Button |
Same as 'Mouse 5' |
Follow the
installation instructions
for
Steamodded
to install. This will at least include
installing the Lovely injector,
adding a Mods folder in your Balatro %appdata% folder, and adding
Steamodded to this folder. Once Steamodded is installed, download a
release of this repository
here,
and extract the archive into the Mods folder.
| Steamodded version | Better-Mouse-And-Gamepad version |
|---|---|
v1.0.0 or newer |
latest |
v0.9.8 or older |
v1.0.5 (latest patch) |
Mod configuration is split into 3 menus: Features, Modifiers, and Gamepad. Features enables and disables the base functionality of the mod. Modifiers changes the behaviour of the mouse bindings. Gamepad binds gamepad buttons to the base functions (which can still be toggled under Features).
Too much code is overwritten and may conflict with other mods which also modify key mapping.
By the way, you can find more mods in these places: awesome-balatro Balatro Mod Index discord--modding mod wiki nexus
Pull requests are welcome!
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License. This ensures that the software is free to use, modify, and distribute. For more details, see the LICENSE file in the repository
