[geoffpado]

It doesn’t sound like they did? The author seems to be proactively not releasing out of respect for LocalThunk, not out of fear. (And certainly not because they’ve already been sent a takedown or anything.)

[kinduff]

Because he didn't published it, but there are other similar ports that have been taken down.

For example, this C64 port was taken down: https://ko-ko74.itch.io/balatro-for-the-commodore-64-c64