Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel Reviews

Overall the game is fun and no complaints for the most part except for three things. 1. The amount of gems that the game gives you the opportunity to get for FTP (free to play) players on a daily basis is abysmal. Especially since the majority of things in the game cost several hundred gems; card packs, accessories, specific cards you would need to craft for decks, all cost in some form or fashion a considerable amount of gems. Which realistically would take several weeks just to get one or two items. 2. The online public dueling system is horrible. There’s no system for efficient, plentiful dueling on a casual level. It’s either play ranked and get creamed by a meta deck or use the meta decks. And on the flip side search through tens of dead rooms and hope to get a casual unranked duel. There needs to be a system just like ranked but for causal duels with a queuing system as well. And number 3 is the lengths you have to go through just to get the smallest amount of gems in the game. I believe one of the achievements if I recall correctly is Special summon a monster 300 times (I believe not exactly sure if it was more) just for 50 gems. And it increases drastically to get the same amount of gems or less for progressing even farther in the achievement. It’s absolutely absurd. But overall not a bad game. Those things make it less enjoyable to play however.

My comment is just I’m speechless, except not actually. This review is bad but it’s not based off the actual app itself which works pretty well. This game used to be really fun and challenging and took thought to play and have a good time. Now starting a duel and having the other person have the first turn with 5 cards and somehow play 9 different monsters on the field all in one turn to all be some how fused all together into 3 different monsters 2400 + with no other cards traps or spell cards played. It’s just like what is this you can’t even play with a deck that has original cards in it because this is pretty much just an online game against other real people who all like to play this way for some reason. Why did you guys ruin this game like this? it used to be really fun and now it’s over in one turn it’s not even a game it’s just who can be a bigger clown and find a away to complete the duel the fastest. Why do you need to be able to play 9 different cars in a turn when the original is just one besides when very few other cards let you do more then one sometimes. It’s just boring now maybe find away to do the first couple generations completely separate in there own game or make your “campaign” not just a couple training classes, make it like the one from the Xbox that lets you play pretty much every duel from the shows and gives you card packs after that help you add to your deck.

Not that this review will ever be read, most never are; however, This game is everything I’ve ever looked for in a yugioh game minus a few key points. Gouging for money in this game is insane, I’ve reached a point where building decks is going to cost real world money, and I’m not doing that when I have the real cards, that would be the dumbest thing I could do. No rewards for ranked placement is absurd, literally every other game in the world has rewards and without them, it feels like a casual duel for a cool sticker that tells your friends you’re good at a trading card game. While on the topic of TRADING card games, when is the last time a major yugioh title had cross player trading in it? That doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense considering the game is called a trading card game. Lastly, GOD THAT MATCH SPEED. You’re telling me I can load in to a massive map in the middle of a dessert and shoot a bunch of bad guys on call of duty at 120 frames flawlessly but I get on yugioh on my PS5 and the match lag is so absurd it’s insane on us taking turns placing 2D cards on a field? That’s actually embarrassing. I sit there for thirty minutes for my opponent to make his moves. (Before all you yugioh buffs go crying about how that’s just card effects and whatnot, I’ve won regional yugioh events multiple times, I understand turns take awhile, this is way to long.) good game, needs so much work.

I’ve played several video games and previous apps regarding the game I’ve known since I was a child. But this game managed to cover EVERYTHING* Yugioh is, the good things and flaws alike. I am truly mesmerized by how much love and attention this game as gotten, both from developers and players alike! It has reignited my love for this franchise a million times over, and I will always remember that! *Having said that, there was one feature in a previous game that I hope will come in Master Duel some day. World Championship 2007 had a feature called “Recipe Duel” where you could fight against the decks you made and see how strong they truly were. I hope you can make that feature available for us down the road.

EDIT: Also, could you give options for different soundtracks that we can customize to our liking. I loved the winning soundtrack in Duel Generations for instance and would love to hear that again. Even the ones from World Championship 2007 were good as well.

I have never played a card or video game with this level of broken balancing. I played this game for several hours and tried out several decks. The tutorial and solo stuff was pretty good but once we got to actual pvp/online battles it just turned into a nosedive. First, servers were abysmal. I don’t know if it was just me but most games I played my opponent would be disconnected and I would win automatically without even being able to play the game. When I actually did get a match that worked 9 times out of 10 my opponent would have several 3000+ attack monsters on their side of the field by the end of their first turn. I had an opponent who literally spent 5 minutes summoning and pulling off whatever build his deck had to kill me by turn two, something I quite literally cannot do anything about. This game has absolutely zero balance and will never be balanced due to the massive amount of bloat and power creep. If you want to slough through to the point where you can also have a 1 turn game ending deck then you do you, but literally any other card game would be a better investment than this one.

I recommend hearthstone, the league of legends one, Horus heresy, or practically any game where your opponent cannot one shot you on their first turn thereby preventing you from actually playing the game.

Overall the game is great, it’s a good mix of both TCG and OCG yu-gi-oh. However my biggest gripe with the game is collecting cards. In the game there are four rarities:Common, Rare, Super Rare, and Ultra Rare. You collect cards by pulling them from packs and or crafting them via materials that you get from either the Duelist pass or Dismantling cards of the rarity in question. Although crafting cards is a welcomed addition getting materials can be rather rough. There are times where you don’t pull many if any Srs/Urs and when you level up in the duelist pass you get around 9-10(with the upgraded gold pass). Decks can have cards of any rarity, however most if not all semi competitive decks have a hefty amount of Sr/Ur cards(unless you’re specifically playing a budget version of the deck, or are playing a more causal deck). A Daily/Weekly mission that gives more crafting materials of all rarities would be greatly appreciated as it would help you get more cards for new decks. Overall it isn’t the worst thing, however when you are low on materials you really wish there was some sort of way to acquire more. Sincerely- A casual turning into a somewhat competitive player.

I’m sorry but I’m getting tired of facing people with these new advanced play styles, why can’t I just have an option that will allow me to play old decks like harpies, joeys old deck etc? This game isn’t good for newbies or past players coming back to play unfortunately, nothing to do but continue to surrender when someone plays a 3000+ monster on their first or second turn, it’s just too much. Played this game and still haven’t one a single match and I’ve already played over 15 matches. Please Konami, make changes to the the overall gameplay of Yugioh, games like MTG are so simple and fun to play, you win some and you lose some, but the point is to have fun, I have no fun playing this game after the 5th loss in a row to an OP deck. Yugioh was a fun game in the past, unique decks, a more forgiving Meta, but now someone HAS to run specific cards and specific decks, no unique flare anymore. If you only supported multiple formats someone could play like time-wizard etc, that would be fun. I was hoping that if I enjoyed this game I could get back into Yugioh in real life again but seems like that won’t happen at all, not in the mood to get recked on the first or second round multiple times. A few losses is fine but when you lose non stop, who gets any fun out of that?

Alright, so this is what we’ve wanted since we were all 10 years old. It looks great, UI is clear and it’s snappy and quick. Now you see that part in the description that says “even offline!”? There’s big invisible asterisks there. There’s an “offline” mode for sure, but riddle me this: why does a card game need a constant connection to the internet? You know the REAL offline people look for? I can ignore micro transactions which lead to potential P2W grime all too common in mobile games but this is a different sort of buggering the player about for no reason. I work on a ship and when I’m in the middle of the sea, with no internet, it means I just can’t play this and have to stick to Duel Generations which is clunky and broken for sure but is truly offline functional.

In summary, Master Duel is like receiving a free shiny Ferrari in your favorite color and even comes with one of those pretty Japanese showroom girls, but you can only drive it if you call Konami every time and the wheels are made of condensed marmite so you won’t be getting very far anyways.

This game is probably the greatest way to introduce a new player, or someone like me who absolutely hated yugioh, to the game altogether!! Before playing this i never wanted anything to do with this card game mostly due to my inefficiency to learn or pay attention. But I have to give it to you, this game is scary good lol I’m even considering recreating my in game deck in real life!!! One thing I would say is the cpu time for deciding is outrageous and irritating at times. And it feels like although everything is “randomized” in the deck I seem to keep getting the unluckiest draws of the game, while the cpu seems to have 5 of each card in their deck. Sometimes I feel like there is absolutely no way the cpu abides by the same rules that the game intends they always seem waaaaaay to lucky leaving strategy out of the option and leaving everything to luck even considering the fact you specifically made a counter deck to work in your favor!!!!

At first i need to congrats at konami because this is exaclty all the yugioh fans wanted for long ago, a game with high graphics an all the specs that yugioh brings above,

Apart of the low in game pve(it’s understandable because the game is new and is focused on pve) i thing there some things that could be more helpfull for old players trying new decks and old player teaching new player, a custom room.

A custom room against a IA where i can pick which cards i want in the field, in the hand, graveyard, banished, etc and i can choose which cards the IA have or make the IA or not play, would be helpfull too practice complicated combos and practice to understand better a new deck, meanwhile if we are teaching a new friend how to play or how to play certain decks and we can do the same already mentioned but surely the new player can understand better he is seeing what are the principal things to do to play correctly a new deck.

There are definitely a few cards that need to be changed. Let me just say that cards that can attack 3 TIMES IN ONE TURN SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED OR AT LEAST SHOULD BE LIMITED. Fossil Machine Skull Convoy is a card that can attack 3 times in one turn and can make your monsters attacks weaker by reducing attack equal to their original amount of defense. It DESTROYS your cards with only 2100 ATK that are in attack position. It also deals 1,000 damage per card destroyed, if it destroys 3 cards in defense position, that’s still 3,000 damage. This card needs to be limited or forbidden.
There should also be a reason to report people for WASTING YOUR TIME.
In this case I mean them just offing themselves in game. They just play a bunch of cars that kill themselves like ones that make them pay half their life points.
We come here to duel for fun (or maybe serious if u wanna be some champion in this game.) We don’t duel people to have them just killing themselves. We want a duel to play, not to watch somebody else play some cards and leave more or less.

Don’t get me wrong, this is like the best Yu-Gi-Oh! game you can play for being on the go, especially if you are on the go from playing Master Duel from console or PC with the cross game data feature! But the games needs something that’s missing that should have been added at its release, there’s a Dark Magician mate that stands by you’re dueling field but my favorite card/monster Dark Magician Girl is not a mate to stand by you’re dueling field as well as a offline mode for the solo mode in the game. With how popular Dark Magician Girl is she should have been a mate to be by you’re side on the dueling field, please add Dark Magician Girl to the mate shop, she deserves to be in the game as a mate. As well as updating the game to have a offline mode for the solo duel mode, the offline mode for solo duel would be a great thing to add for those who don’t have access to the internet. These features really need to be added to the game.

I was going to write a more detailed review, but my previous one was lost, so I’ll just say that this game is not the place to look for a “traditional” yugioh experience. Duel Links or Cross Duel are better options for that. This game is for veteran yugioh players who want to challenge their deck building skills. The game itself is okay, but it has a cruel and expensive deck building meta, and gems are far too tedious to grind. Duels can take over 20 minutes if you have a difficult opponent. Not to mention the game will make it its personal mission to give you every SR and UR besides the ones you need. Some of these really annoying things can be offset by using some strategy and brainpower, but overall the game mostly feels like a chore to play. The game is functional, I won’t give it much more than that though. Take these things into consideration before downloading this game and if you do, pick the archetype of your first real deck very carefully. It will have a huge impact on how many gems you can grind off ranked.

Love this game I have it on my ps5 too i mean everything is just great the music the graphics it is just great but I can’t lie it does have some bugs it from time to time. I will go ahead and say that I do like the mechanics and that if you need to get a card you can always jut try and get some of those medals to get get the cards or or try to summon them. Ow the deck I use in this game currently i a world chalice deck I will send art off by saying it is a good deck to use but the bets ones to use right now from my point of view is a galaxy dragon 🐉 deck because it is just that good from the power to the abilities. The only complaint I have is about the forbidden 🚫 world chalice card the synchro one it is such a great card to use but I can’t use it cause it is forbidden 🚫 well that is the end of my review bye hope this was helpful

Played many different yugioh games and have played duel links as well for a long time. This game just seems to have played off the success of duel links and set up full style matches. That sounds great but it ends up not. Your ability to collect cards to make any sort of workable deck is unmanageable without spending a pretty penny. Also the method to collect cards is quite bad. You draw basically from every card in existence. Then can only get more selective sets to draw from if you pull a sr or ur from said set. Also the game is basically just pvp with weak events based on a couple sets at the time. You will constantly be outmatched in the first turn everytime. This is due to you not having access to cards to get by against most other players. Then because you lose, you end up with little to no rewards leading to not being able to get more cards. This creates a broken system for new players downloading this. Honestly skip this and go to duel links. It is much more balanced, has much more to offer, and you will have a better time.

Right now this is just another yugioh pvp duel simulator and not a real “game”. The solo mode is total trash, just text on a screen where you do a few battles with bad decks against a computer opponent. Where is the actual yugioh world where you can have a character and interact with other characters and move around? Where are the storylines? Why can’t Konami make a real modernized GAME like The Sacred Cards for mobile that has pvp as a feature and not the core thing? Speaking of PVP, it’s fun for a bit until you run into the same 5-10 toxic decks that take FOREVER to play against. I shouldn’t be waiting five minutes for every opponent turn. The only good thing about this game is you can get a ton of gems in the beginning to draw a lot of packs and the crafting system is really interesting. As of now, this is a really incomplete game with barely any content, and the PVP matches play too slow. Will definitely uninstall in a few weeks if big changes aren’t made. Regardless of Duel Links flaws, it was still way more interactive and I had fun playing for a while.

YuGiOhMasterDuel works fine my big issue with the game is some of the stupid decks that were added. I used to love this card game as a kid and now they’ve way over complicated it. My deck in this game was simple but effective, but it doesn’t come close to these stupid decks that make it to where someone can play 20 different cards in one turn. I place my 2-3 cards down and end my turn and then I have to wait 10 mins for my opponent to play 20 different cards and summon 5 monsters to the field... it’s stupid, great way to ruin a simple fun game yugiho. Not only that but these decks also seem to have a card for every situation, you place some traps down to help aid your win and they have something to destroy all your traps and spells, you summon a stronger monster then them oh wait they destroyed a card 4 turns ago that destroys your monster as soon as you try to attack. The new decks have made it to where the old cards and decks are just completely useless. This isn’t even the same game anymore and if I wanted to play something confusing and different from yugiho then I woulda picked up magic the gathering.

As a veteran player of from the 2002 era this game is a breath of fresh air. Combining the OCG & TCG is the best way to go. This confirms keeping the game split in real life is a mistake. Master Duel finally allows players to play others from other nations with one list. A huge criticism that only Yugioh had. Hopefully they take this approach in real life and merge the OCG & TCG so Worlds means a lot more than it does. I can’t find a player in America who can name a world champion but plenty can name YCS and Shonen Jump Champions.

This makes it much easier for returning players to learn new mechanics instead of having to learn everyone at once. I did that back in 2019 after a ten year hiatus as a competitive player. It was daunting and was probably a reason a lot of more causal players ran to other games. Master Duel fixes this fight or flight response.

Konami really needs to give options for playing with Pre-Errata cards & old rules when having a private room. This will allow players to play decks from past eras of the game. Also the choice of alternative art on cards would be a nice addition for later installations.

One huge criticism is there is no way to log in from your account on different devices. Meaning I had to create a new account to play on mobile vs my PC. They should fix this quickly. Over all the game is well made just like Magic’s Arena but not as costly.

I’ve always loved the yugioh anime/manga since I was little and I always enjoyed the card game with friends but it was to difficult for us to play outside of our friend group so I eventually but when I heard that duel links came out I hopped on the hype train and played the crap out of that game but with duel links I had a bunch of pet-peeves with the game for example the micro transactions was a huge part so when I heard that this game was going to have 10,000 cards it made me really nervous but I’m glad that that Konami not only made it super accessible for you to get the cards and the premium currency aka (gems)
But just like any other game their are some problems with the game and remember not every game is perfect but for what it’s worth this is a solid game and if you like card games or if you like yugioh PLEASE play this game!!!!

Solo mode is deeply unrewarding and has a lot of decks (not opponents, you’re not facing duelists, you’re literally just fighting sentient scraps of paper) that are blatantly unfair. The whole purpose is to show how you can exploit various mechanics in Duel Monsters and then take you to the shop where you can pay a lot of money to pull the same exploitative nonsense.
Solo mode can be played with your own deck or loaner decks. The loaner decks are worthless and get obliterated by the AI’s vastly superior decks. So you’re mashing retry until eventually the AI messes up or gets a bad hand and you can finally get an RNG based victory in.
The 10 pack bundles say they guarantee a super rare card, except for when they don’t but instead promise you’ll totally get an ultra rare card if you buy another 10 packs.
So in summary: Boring opponents, enemies that borderline cheat with their decks, difficulty curve that doesn’t exist because it’s all random, designed to handhold players on their way to the store so they can spend enough of mommy’s money so they can cheat at Duel Monsters too.

I always felt like it was rigged, but can never prove it until now. Matched up with a random in Casual duel, drew 3 copies of Lava Golem. The very next game, I got matched up with the same player and drew my 3 copies of Lava Golem again! Do you know the percentage of that happening. It’s basically impossible to happened back to back against the same player unless the game is coded for you to draw certain cards. I can’t be the only one who notices how much I draw in my opening hand the one card I only have 1 copy of. The 1 copy card that is only in my deck to dump in the GY or bring out with other cards, yet is constantly being drawn. I have 3 copies of so many cards in my deck that I rarely see, yet that 1 card is constantly being drawn. You ever count how many times you win the coin flip? I did. Out of 50 flips, I only won 11. But guess what, after I changed my deck to a Go second deck and started selecting to go second, guess how often I started winning coin flips? Out of 50 I won 27. The game knows. It knows which you prefers and will make you win or lose the flip on how you been selecting. The game knows which card are only used for what and will make you draw them. This game if RIGGED!!!!

So I’ve been a fan of the anime since I was a kid and I went into this game thinking I could finally learn how to play or at the very least build my dream deck. I was able to build my deck out with the monsters I want but there’s no tip or auto sort for spells and whatnot which cripples the game in my opinion. While the training bit is somewhat helpful the remaining bits are INCREDIBLY redundant to a casual gamer such as myself who just wants to collect cards and battle players. In regards to pvp, I won a total of two casual duels and have been losing since then not because of lack of skill but rather because I seem to get cards that I can’t use/summon whereas the enemy is able to get multiple hit points before even attacking. Finally this game has an auto button that legitimately does nothing so don’t get this assuming that a bot will duel for you. For anime fans, I strongly recommend you pick this up because I got an Egyptian god card.

for anyone who plays master duel, knows that it takes no skill to be the best anymore. while konami did an amazing job building up the game in terms of being a free game that was constructed beautifully, master duel is flawed for these two reasons. one, they have their own banlist separate from TCG/OCG, and it’s by far the worst of the 3 platforms. and two, master duel encourages players to use a meta that they only keep around until they release a new one, and that meta gets banned all around the next month. the worst part is players are allowed to copy other decks so by all means someone has a better deck, just use theirs and climb your way up the ranks. the fun aspect of yugioh was to build your own deck that was from your heart, hence the heart of the cards. yet instead. all everyone wants to do is use the one archetypes that’s winning. you could say “hate the game not the player” but the community is just as bad for falling victim of this scheme. overall, a fun game with your friends, but the game needs to be reformed if you truly want to compete for being the best deck builder.

Why do all of you in this company just love nothing but money money money money money. The card game on its own is pay to win and soo Dammn expensive at that. But not you have a Mobil version so I’m my head I was like awesome I get to play the game. But no I log in and are given a straight up horrible year one deck and when I try to build my own I can’t cuz I have to acquire the cards but by bit witch takes forever making you want to spend real money. So at this point I said it’s ok I’ll just play and earn it but no right off the bat eveyone that it matches me up with has a good deck or an up to date deck and I’m over here with this crap the game gave me where I can’t even get more than one monster per turn on the field. And it’s so frustrating because non of them will see this and do anything about it. It’s all about money to them can’t you guys just let normal people who work everyday enjoy the game without having to pay so much money. Game is straight up garbage do not get unless you want to spend money are play against people who have money.

My only critique for this game is can we please have more SOLO MODE gates and content for SOLO MODE more frequently. Perhaps twice a month. PLEASE!! With so many archetypes available that can be covered it feels like it’s not being capitalized on to tell more of their stories in SOLO MODE. After a couple weeks it feels like there should be another gate available cause it doesn’t take very long to complete each one. And going back and playing the previous gates gets old very quickly. I also feel SOLO MODE would receive more attention from players if there were more content available and rewards. Even if it’s the same amount of rewards as for the previous gates so far. Besides all of that I want to say never has there been a better digital way to play the game. Everything from top to bottom is spot on with meeting expectations except SOLO MODE. The RANKING system is perfect and has allowed me to really test myself against the best players out there. CASUAL has been so much fun for testing out strategies I have never been able to try before anywhere else. Also being able to Spectate duels has helped me improve my skills as well by seeing how other duelists play under the same situations. I could go on and on honestly but all that really needs to be said is keep up the good work KONAMI!!!!!!!!!!