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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!

Developer
KONAMI
Publisher
KONAMI
Franchise
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Release date
Jan 18, 2022
Store page updated
Aug 30, 2026
Price
Free · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

32.5/ 100

Based on 380 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😐 Mixed 50% of 917
All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 71% of 101,669
“Nostalgic connection to Yu-Gi-Oh makes it a must-have for fans”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-1.83
Strategy -2.68

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Story & World
+1.33

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Story -1.00

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Content Volume
-2.78
Variety -3.23

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Visuals & Sound
+2.99
Visuals +2.81
“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
-2.53
Playing together -2.27

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Fairness
-3.74
Balance -4.30
“opponent plays 30 cards turn 1 with 4 negate effects, making player unable to play” (148)

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Tech & Ops
-1.54
Developer support -2.62

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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
40%60%80%100%
Jan 2022Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 901 reviews, peak 48/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

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%

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