Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

 iOS
  • Publisher: Konami
  • Release Date: Jan 11, 2017
  • Also On: PC
User Score
7.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 65 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 45 out of 65
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 65
  3. Negative: 8 out of 65
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  1. EljeroTV
    May 16, 2018
    9
    Excellent card game for mobile devices that has been given a lot of care to properly fit touchscreen devices and short duels on the go. High production quality with full voice over and great animation make playing this game a joy and it is fairly easy to proceed in the game without ever paying anything as you'll be rewarded constantly with fair amounts of diamonds through quests andExcellent card game for mobile devices that has been given a lot of care to properly fit touchscreen devices and short duels on the go. High production quality with full voice over and great animation make playing this game a joy and it is fairly easy to proceed in the game without ever paying anything as you'll be rewarded constantly with fair amounts of diamonds through quests and special events.
    Some minor balancing issues, (at rare points) dumb A.I. and other small things lower this impression only slightly.

    And by the way, I think having a unique cardpool and rules specifically made for this game and meta was the best choice they could make and gives some interesting new deck types to enjoy.    … Expand
  2. RainbowStaple
    Jan 16, 2018
    8
    If you are a fan of classic Yu-Gi-Oh you will enjoy this game.

    Not only does it have a good free to play model but has a fun playstyle too; be aware this game is not the original playing field with 5 spell/trap zones, 5 monster zones, and 40 card decks. Instead this format is quick format; which means there are 3 spell/trap zones, 3 monster zones, and a 20-30 card deck with a 5 card    If you are a fan of classic Yu-Gi-Oh you will enjoy this game.

    Not only does it have a good free to play model but has a fun playstyle too; be aware this game is not the original playing field with 5 spell/trap zones, 5 monster zones, and 40 card decks. Instead this format is quick format; which means there are 3 spell/trap zones, 3 monster zones, and a 20-30 card deck with a 5 card extra deck.

    Pack system is good, they give out many free gems and do effectively continuous events to provide more free stuff for players, which is amazing for a free to play game.

    The ace cards such as Dark Magician and Blue Eyes have amazing animations compared to many of the previous Yu-Gi-Oh games, and the characters live up to their personalities; with interactions between many.

    Its also one of the first continuously updated games of Yu-Gi-Oh to date, so you know that this game is certainly going to last, and Konami isn't just going to realease a Duel Links 2019 next year.

    Overall this game is pretty great, and I would recommend it if you've ever been slightly interested
    in Yu-Gi-Oh and want to play it on the go.    … Expand
  3. Akai121
    May 17, 2018
    8
    A great mobile app and an excellent example of how you balance a free to play game and a gem economy. The greatest feature of this game is you don't have to buy anything with real money to get a Top Tier deck. They give you enough free gems to get booster packs, structure decks or straight trading your jank rares for a better one. The only way you run out of steam is if you try to buildA great mobile app and an excellent example of how you balance a free to play game and a gem economy. The greatest feature of this game is you don't have to buy anything with real money to get a Top Tier deck. They give you enough free gems to get booster packs, structure decks or straight trading your jank rares for a better one. The only way you run out of steam is if you try to build a bunch of decks at once and sporadically spend your gems on pointless packs instead of trying to construct a viable deck. Progression is great in this game, in terms of unlocking or gaining new cards, this whole game is comparable to the DS games in how fast it takes to get multiple powerful decks. I haven't spent a single dollar and I have King of Games Worthy decks. Play the game, play the quizzes and claim the free stuff they give you.… Expand
  4. DistractedPine
    Aug 7, 2019
    8
    I personally think the game is very fun and addicting. I find it nice on how Konami made the game like old school Yu-Gi-Oh! so it could be newcomer friendly. I think the character selection is nice but I personally think Konami should add more characters to GX World. There are also 3 different worlds (at the time I’m writing this) based on the first 3 Yu-Gi-Oh! animes. Yu-Gi-Oh! DM (DuelI personally think the game is very fun and addicting. I find it nice on how Konami made the game like old school Yu-Gi-Oh! so it could be newcomer friendly. I think the character selection is nice but I personally think Konami should add more characters to GX World. There are also 3 different worlds (at the time I’m writing this) based on the first 3 Yu-Gi-Oh! animes. Yu-Gi-Oh! DM (Duel Monsters) Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (Generation X) and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5DS (5 Dragons) One flaw of the game is how Konami might make the game complicated like the card game again if they add XYZ Monsters for the new world if it comes out. Also not allowing 10 card decks anymore. In conclusion, I thing DL is a very fun and easy to learn game. I would naturally recommend it to YGO fans or people who like strategy based games. Overall I think the game is fun and interesting.… Expand
  5. TakeruBrito
    Oct 25, 2019
    10
    Um dos melhores jogos de yugioh que já joguei. Como sempre a konami acertando na qualidades do jogos da franquia. É muito legal poder montar seus decks favoritos. Um jogo perfeito pra quem é fã de yugioh
  6. NoirNoah
    Dec 19, 2017
    10
    I think it's the best mobile game ever. I spent about a month playing Duel Linkd and
    I'm still not bored with this game. Love pvp, making decks and buying cards for free. Trust me - it is not p2w.
  7. mhswv20
    Aug 30, 2019
    10
    A great game! I have so much fun playing it! Loving all the characters they're adding as well! Keeps the game fresh!
  8. et_phone_home
    Mar 2, 2017
    0
    Pré-script.
    If you want a decent, fair, tactical and with a campaign, daily duel quests, draft and a few more game modes, go and try "MABINOGI DUEL". This is the CCG game i'm playing right now and it doesn't have the RIDICULOUS after duel rewards that YUGIOH does.
    Now, After a good start YUGIOH Duel Links becomes quickly boring. The lack of decent events, game modes (quests,    Pré-script.
    If you want a decent, fair, tactical and with a campaign, daily duel quests, draft and a few more game modes, go and try "MABINOGI DUEL". This is the CCG game i'm playing right now and it doesn't have the RIDICULOUS after duel rewards that YUGIOH does.

    Now,

    After a good start YUGIOH Duel Links becomes quickly boring.

    The lack of decent events, game modes (quests, daily duels, draft, sealed, main campaign...) and the RIDICULOUS rewards for completing quests (i.e. 10 coins for completing ALL weekly quests, when a pack of 3 cards costs you 50 coins???) makes me wanna quit this game and get back to my old PSP to play YUGIOH.

    This game could be great, but by now it's not... What is the motivation for dueling? To get keys for more dueling, (against Legendary Duelists)? REALLY? (Sometimes you get a GOLDEN chest with an AMAZING 1 COIN, REALLY??? Is this a JOKE??? or a crappy repeated card that you already have a dozen...

    You should make a game like the ones in PSP with some sort of quests and tournaments and not the crap events you have by now in this game.

    This game is only in the beggining and there is still a lot they can do here, but, i think it's gonna happen like Pokemon Go and after the initial wave, most people start quiting it and only pure "blind" fans keep playing it.

    For now i'm deleting this game and charging my PSP to play a decent YUGIOH game or playing the recent cool game i've discovered: MABINOGI DUEL where you don't feel exploited and have fair rewards by playing it.

    I don't mind paying in a game and unfortunately i've already spent 12 euros on YUGIOH LINKS, but that's the last coin you'll see from me. Like i said before, 1 gold coin in a GOLDEN chest and 10 gold coins from cleaning all WEEKLY (not daily) quests. While you pay 50 coins, for usually, 3 REPEATED cards is worst than a BAD JOKE...

    At least in MTG Duels after you have 3 copies of a certain card you won't get that card anymore. Here you get more and more and more of the same cards.

    This game doesn't really deserve a zero score, but until you make changes in some departments in this game, for me this game scores a zero because it doesn't deserve to be in my iPad.

    Maybe someday (after you make the necessary changes) i'll install it again and change my score but until then:

    ZERO is what you'll get!!!    … Expand
  9. bigcheifdan
    Apr 10, 2017
    0
    From the moment the download started I knew that this game was actually a piece of garbage. First of all it stopped the download 4 or 5 times which is bogus because my download speed is in the 25-30 range (I checked to make sure).
    Once the game finally downloaded, I chose my character and started that amazing duel where we summon vanillas and I beat my opponent down; riveting game-play as    From the moment the download started I knew that this game was actually a piece of garbage. First of all it stopped the download 4 or 5 times which is bogus because my download speed is in the 25-30 range (I checked to make sure).
    Once the game finally downloaded, I chose my character and started that amazing duel where we summon vanillas and I beat my opponent down; riveting game-play as always Ko-money.
    To be completely honest, I stopped the game after that. Basically I came to write a review because this game is absolute trash compared to dueling network, the site they shut down when they dropped this app to eliminate competition. I want anyone looking for reviews to know that dueling book is a way to play yugioh online with access to all the cards    … Expand
  10. thientoan341
    Mar 11, 2019
    7
    One of the best card game out there. You can always grind and the strategies involved are interesting. However, Ancient Gear Reactor Dragon is kind of unhealthy for the meta and won't be put in the ban list in March so i will give it a 7
  11. Piethenkens
    Oct 7, 2022
    0
    I just i cant recommend this game at all its the purest form of greed there is. Komoney just sees you as their little paypig or cashcow and if you don't your often nothing to them. Even if you manage to get a good deck no matter if it's with your hard earned cash or with your long farmed gems next month this deck is brought back to nothingness with lots of card bans or new OP (overpricedI just i cant recommend this game at all its the purest form of greed there is. Komoney just sees you as their little paypig or cashcow and if you don't your often nothing to them. Even if you manage to get a good deck no matter if it's with your hard earned cash or with your long farmed gems next month this deck is brought back to nothingness with lots of card bans or new OP (overpriced and overpay'd) decks that are new and from new boxes. New boxes that cost you hundreds of dollars each month if you want to keep playing good decks. Most of this money spent goes to cards without much vallue cards that you will get 9 too 20+ from. This game is borderline toxic gambling/gacha and its really sickening. It prays upon its fanbase like games like diablo immortal stay far away from it. Your current deck might be really good and fun but just wait next month you can't use that same good deck because of all the card restrictions, while the newest strongest 300 too 500 dollar deck will probably even be better then your current deck at its peak. You might realise very soon that all those hundreds of dollars spent felt like as if you set it all a flame.

    Just really sad and disgusting how games more and more start to pray upon people and resamble gambling addiction or drug addictions and konami you should be ashamed treating people like this.    … Expand
  12. Viivi
    Jun 8, 2020
    0
    After de last actualization of day 08/06/2020, the game doesn't conect to server and I can't download the last version of the game. I can't connect me and I will lost all my progress in the KC Tournament! I buy many things in this game, I want a solution!
  13. BambiRue
    Mar 30, 2020
    9
    This is a great way to play YuGiOh. I see people complain all the time about how expensive and PtW it is, but have you ever played the physical card game? And as a free phone app, you can be competitive as a non-paying player so it is waaaay better than most free mobile games. Give it a shot, if you don't like it you can delete it later.
  14. Sirio99
    Nov 4, 2022
    7
    It is a good Yu-Gi-Oh game available for most platforms, with a lot of characters to unlock and a good amount of game modes and events to keep you playing daily. Unfortunately, if you want to reach the highest levels of competitive play it is a must that you spend some money on in-game purchases. 7/10.
  15. pedcruv
    Dec 14, 2020
    8
    História: O jogo tem uma história simples, a progressão é focada em apresentar as mecânicas de jogos e conseguir novos decks.

    Gameplay: A gameplay é boa e intuitiva, as partidas são rápidas, infelizmente o único modo de jogo é o link. Veredito: É um bom jogo, nada supera a experiencia de jogar presencial, mas é bom para passar o tempo e para introduzir pessoas ao universo de    História: O jogo tem uma história simples, a progressão é focada em apresentar as mecânicas de jogos e conseguir novos decks.

    Gameplay: A gameplay é boa e intuitiva, as partidas são rápidas, infelizmente o único modo de jogo é o link.

    Veredito: É um bom jogo, nada supera a experiencia de jogar presencial, mas é bom para passar o tempo e para introduzir pessoas ao universo de Yu-Gi-Oh!.    … Expand
  16. BielSantos2112
    May 17, 2021
    1
    The game has many repeated events and a little variety of content besides bugs in the KC cup that were never fixed and bugs of not finding a match in the ranking
  17. AriWertheim
    Apr 7, 2022
    5
    Very unfaithful to the original game, and is very basic even for people who have never played before. Not worth spending time on but overall not a completely awful game.
  18. Catboy
    Jun 21, 2022
    8
    I really like this game although it’s mobile and if you stall as yugi and if you use Kaibas white egg or stone thing **** you
  19. Geektamer
    Feb 23, 2023
    10
    El Mejor Videojuego de Yu-Gi-Oh que he jugado en mi vida
  20. ltnnn
    Apr 25, 2023
    7
    As a phone videogame, very solid tbh.
    As a YuGiOh game, could have gone way further

Awards & Rankings

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#64 Best iOS Game of 2017
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#3 Most Discussed iOS Game of 2017
78
#78 Most Shared iOS Game of 2017

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. SpazioGames
    Jan 21, 2019
    75
    Duel Links is a simplified yet deep enough version of the trading card game we all know and love.
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  2. Gamezebo
    Feb 2, 2017
    70
    Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links might lack some of the depth of the original, but it’s still a pretty good mobile conversion. By cutting certain elements down, you’ll be able to get more accomplished than you would have before.
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  3. Multiplayer.it
    Feb 1, 2017
    83
    Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links is not only a great homage to the series but also a good starting point for the gamers who don't already know its mechanics.
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