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Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Released 18 January 2022

Players recommending it

71%Mostly Positive

of all 102,011 reviews on Steam

58%▼ 13

recommend it, last 7 days

200▲ 9%

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RecommendedUnder an hour playedEnglish

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel is the best way to play Yu-Gi-Oh! online. It has great graphics, thousands of cards, frequent events, and cross-platform support. Whether you’re a casual duelist or a competitive player, there’s always something to do. Pros: * Huge card collection * Free-to-play friendly * Ranked mode and events * Great animations * Cross-platform play Cons: * Some decks can be expensive to build * Meta can get repetitive Overall: A great game for Yu-Gi-Oh! fans. 👍

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Recommended0 found it helpful24 hours played · 30 Sep

Fun and pretty cool for anyone who cant buy or keep cards around physically. Allows us to still enjoy the game. My complaint is since when was yugioh so complicated. iv played for a total of 24 hours and i can confidently say atleast half of it is waiting for my opponent and reading the effects that are about a book long. Its cool if you enjoy it of course. Play how you want. Its just personally I miss when things were simpler and I would love maybe a playlist that only allows decks from older and the original cards from OG yugioh. Before pendulum or links were a thing. It would I THINK grab the attention of the classic duelists out there and allow players, such as myself, to enjoy the game the it was years ago.

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Not recommended8 found it helpful74 hours played · 24 Sep

Making a simple and fun Yu-Gi-Oh game cannot be that hard. The card game launched back in 1999, and somehow we still don't have a remotely fun way to play it from home. Take it as a hot take, but when I want to play Yu-Gi-Oh, I want to have some fun. Maybe 1–2 Spell or Trap Cards, some Fusions or Rituals, and just enjoy my time. I don't want to watch my opponent put down 5000 ATK Synchro monsters on the first turn, disable every single one of my cards, and then somehow summon even more monsters during my turn. It can't be that hard to make a simple and slow-paced card game. I have so many questions. Why is everything so fast? Why is everything so extra? Who wished for Synchro? Who wished for Pendulum? Who wished for Xyz? Who wished for Link? I have played for 70 hours. Most of that was AFK because I forgot to close the game. I spent hours reading through cards and trying to understand some meta deck just to have a slight chance of getting some cards on a new account without using my credit card and the rest 6 ish hours were to play against friends. And after all of that, I only had fun with one thing I mentioned above. P.S. The Solo Mode is trash too.

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29 languages · point at one
LanguageReviewsShareRecommend itthe tick is every language, 71%; the chip is the gap
English49,13248%
73%+2
Simplified Chinese12,18412%
61%−10
Korean8,4258%
75%+4
Portuguese - Brazil6,3266%
77%+6
Spanish5,9866%
81%+10
German4,9765%
67%−4
Traditional Chinese3,3483%
66%−5
Japanese3,0243%
50%−21
21 other languages8,6108%

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