Now this seems like it’d be more up my jam than Balatro!

Glad to see this being talked about! GMTK had a similar idea and recently published a demo, the developer also released a devlog yesterday about it https://youtu.be/jfD7m7sgOgQ

Here’s some better links than that shitty blogspam site run by a douchebag

Steam link:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2906730/Watchword/

Official Site:
https://watchwordgame.com/