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Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL is the ultimate free-to-play cross-platform strategy card game with fast-paced Duels, stunning HD graphics and a new, dynamic soundtrack! Get ready to challenge Duelists around the world!
“Nostalgic connection to Yu-Gi-Oh makes it a must-have for fans”
How it holds up
−50+5
Gameplay
-2.27
Strategy-2.68· Depth of builds, tactics, and meaningful choices
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Story & World
-0.12
Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.
Story-1.00· Plot, quests, writing, and the ending
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Content Volume
-2.70
Variety-3.23· Fresh content and situations versus repetition
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Visuals & Sound
+2.82
Visuals+2.81· Graphics, art style, and animation
“visually satisfying with direct animation style” (24)
First of all, I want to especially thank this game for destroying one of my childhood dreams. Secondly, I can say that it's visually satisfying. I like the way the drawing style is directly animated. As a single-player game, it's quite good, but the content is insufficient, it has an ending, and you can't do daily or event tasks in solo mode. This prevents me from earning points and building the decks I want in peace by myself. I don't want to play with others because... Playing online is no different from solo mode, but it's worse. Watching the one-sided game of whoever starts first or has th
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Multiplayer
-2.57
Playing together-2.27· Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals
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Pricing & Fairness
-3.52
Balance-4.30· Whether classes, weapons, and builds are evenly matched
“opponent plays 30 cards turn 1 with 4 negate effects, making player unable to play” (148)
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Tech & Support
-1.92
Developer support-2.62· Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players
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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.
Steam review activity
% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
Jan 2022Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 893 reviews, peak 48/day
Aug 21Sep 18
per month · 2,744 reviews, peak 1,006/month
Jun 2026Aug 2026
per month · 5,420 reviews, peak 1,008/month
Mar 2026Aug 2026
per month · 12,840 reviews, peak 2,150/month
Sep 2025Aug 2026
Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.
Review languages
Languages of the 380 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.
English37%
Chinese17%
Japanese16%
Portuguese9%
Spanish8%
German5%
Other9%
🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.
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