Yu User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience49.6% of reviews
Neutral9.8% of reviews
Negative experience40.6% of reviews

~ Based on 1,017 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Yu Safe?

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Yu is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 89,630 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 89,630 App Store ratings for Yu.

Is Yu Legit?

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Yu is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Acceptably Mediocre

A fun shadow of real Yugioh that lets you play the entire expanded series with ever-growing content & card pools. There are 2 permanent modes with rotating limited modes. Progression is sluggish, card acquisition is frustrating at best & PVP is a nightmare rife with rampant cheating, harsh time limits, intentional power creep & broken, game-warping “duelist skills” that violate the fundamentals of basic design & play. PVE is tedious & each update breaks the autoplay’s AI in increasingly worse ways. It’s a far cry from perfect, but moderately better than modern paper.
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No ban list control

Apparently Konami doesn’t want to follow their own ban list and let red-eyes dark dragoon players ONCE AGAIN make yugioh no fun in PvP so Konami FOLLOW YOUR BAN LIST! Or go to the shadow realm!

Plz add Rage Yuya Sasaki

Love the game, but I can’t stand the bases for rush duels. I do wish raging Yuya would be a playable character or skill. Also red eyes dragoon is way too powerful for this game. Other than those thoughts love the game

Duel links is the best

Awesome fun game

Just waste of time!

This game has completely lost what made Yu-Gi-Oh! enjoyable and turned into a glorified single-player simulator. Most matches are nothing more than watching your opponent play for several minutes while you sit there doing absolutely nothing. It’s not engaging, it’s just a waste of time.
The so-called “skill” system only makes things worse. Instead of adding depth, it dumbs the game down and strips away any real strategy, turning it into a generic, watered-down experience that barely resembles Yu-Gi-Oh! anymore.
At this point, the game feels fundamentally broken. It rewards long, uninteractive turns and punishes anyone who actually wants a fair back-and-forth match.
If you value your time or your sanity, stay far away from this game.
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poor card character

why the oldest card inside of the character is still alive? but all is good but update like the new card in character is dead and feel like rocks dislike of the cone out of the card character is dead

BEWARE! if your game wont let you connect your KONAMI id. dont use your gems or anything

so a while back last month, I downloaded the game and decided to play it because I had a friend who wanted me to play with him and so I still grind it out stage one through 15 on do list kingdom arc and had spent a lot of gems gambling on the card box. the new one that held dark magician the dragon knight. and i got lucky enough to pull it as a prismatic foil. (only being as lucky in master duel.). but for some reason when I tried to connect my konami ID to the account, I kept getting random mysterious errors and it didn’t matter how many times I reloaded the game it wouldn’t let me connect the id. but after I uninstalled the game for storage reasons and went to go re-downloaded the app didn’t keep the data I had. And after trying to get Konami support to help me, and while I admit, I forgot my endgame ID at first that same person who got me into dueling, found the ID of the account I used, and even after given the information to komani they couldn’t verify me. and yet it wouldn’t tell me how I’m supposed to make it easier for both parties to move forward. this is ridiculous.
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I lost my id

I have love this game and played for soo long time and almost spend more than 1000 dollars in the game but 3 or 4 years ago suddenly my id wont open saying someone complain that i hacked and cheated i have never done it i tried to contact you guys so many time but also this hasnot been fixed

Free to play but Character skills gone too far

Definitely the most aesthetically pleasing and free to play Yu Gi Oh game available. So much rewards given out for events and earning currency for packs is fairly easy. However, came back to the game after 2 years, character skills which meant to enhance gameplay instead are broken (most duels are ending in a single turn). A single card having 3-4 different effect yet the summoning cost for such card is a single card with no prerequisite. For example: Red eyes insight-> Red eyes fusion-> Two-Three fusion available (which have ability to negate effects and other effects)
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Power creep

Amazing game!! Duel links unfortunately fails where the paper version does. Cards being released at an increasing speed and rewards being more and more limited lead to the high ranks of PvP being mostly pay to play players. If you like building silly decks and grinding through thousands of hours of PvE content this is the game for you! If you’re more interested in a more advanced form of PvP, get your wallet ready.
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Too much storage

Utterly insane amount of storage. Super fun, but had to delete because the app won’t work unless you let it use up 8G of storage space on your phone!

Just let me play the game!

This game could have been great but all these stuff cluttering the game kills it. Enough with the events and just give us the prizes at once!

Dualing online against other people

I hate the time limit that’s not fare cause it takes time for strategy and I don’t like when it’s not even your turn yet the time still clicks on you and you lose the dual that’s the need to be change asap

Acceptably Mediocre

A fun shadow of real Yugioh that lets you play the entire expanded series with ever-growing content & card pools. There are 2 permanent modes with rotating limited modes. Progression is sluggish, card acquisition is frustrating at best & PVP is a nightmare rife with rampant cheating, intentional power creep & broken “duelist skills” that violate the fundamentals of basic gameplay. It’s not perfect, but it’s far better than modern paper.
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Absolutely Garbage in terms of authenticity

For one very powerful play value cards like red eyes dark dragoon and the skill that cheats and allows players to summon him on the very first turn is given and easily available to any player while simple cards like spirit reaper which have much more thought into a strategy behind it is sooo hard to get from a pack! For two the pack pulling for ten pack pulls have the worst possible chances to get anything more than rares or uncommons (no SR’s or UR’s) that it gets ridiculous and when you get the off chance of any SR’s or UR’s they are completely cards with hardly any play value whatsoever! This “Yu-Gi-Oh! Game”, I actually don’t want to call it that, supports duelists with no actual dueling skills while constantly punishing the Duelists with a lot of thought process in their decks and play styles! WOULD RATE 0 IF IT WAS POSSIBLE!
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New link monsters overpowered and changed the whole game!

New link monsters can wipe all your cards off the field while adding multiple 3000 attack monsters to their side of the field with no restrictions. All monsters can still attack and use effects. Went from picking 20-30 cards in a deck to 20-60 cards. Seems like you only can win with a link deck with 30 plus cards now
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Keeps crashing

Dueling a vagrant and every time he plays a pot of greed the game crashes

Original cards are the only way to play and have fun

cheating new cards in this game makes this game unworthy of plane

Brings back memories

First, I want to say thank you for creating one of my favorite mobile games. I’ve been a Yu-Gi-Oh! fan for years, and Duel Links captures the feeling of actually being a Duelist better than almost any other game I’ve played. The animations, the voice acting, the music, the character interactions, and the storytelling all make the game feel alive.

One of my favorite features is the unique summoning animations for signature monsters. Seeing iconic cards come to life never gets old, and I think adding even more unique attack animations or signature voice lines for ace monsters would make the experience even more immersive. I’d love to hear characters call out specific attacks the way they do in the anime.

I also love the progression system. Climbing the ranked ladder, improving my decks, and testing my skills against other Duelists is incredibly rewarding. The competitive aspect keeps me coming back because every duel feels like an opportunity to improve.

That said, I have one major concern, and it’s the first time I’ve felt compelled to leave critical feedback.

The current meta surrounding Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon has made ranked duels feel repetitive and frustrating. In my last ten matches, roughly eight of my opponents were using essentially the same Dragoon strategy. In one stretch, I faced five Dragoon decks in a row. Instead of feeling like I’m adapting to different Duelists with different strategies, it feels like I’m playing against the exact same deck over and over again.

The issue isn’t simply that the card is strong,powerful cards are part of Yu-Gi-Oh!. The problem is that Dragoon is so powerful, so consistent, and so difficult to answer that it feels like many decks either have to play it or be built specifically to counter it. Losing within two to five turns because of the same card repeatedly isn’t enjoyable, and building a deck solely to beat one monster takes away a lot of the creativity that makes deck building fun.

One of the things I’ve always loved about Duel Links is seeing the incredible variety of decks people create. I’ve lost to some amazingly creative strategies, and honestly, those losses are fun because I learn something new. But when the majority of matches revolve around one overpowered monster, that variety disappears.

I truly love this game, and that’s why I’m taking the time to write this. I want Duel Links to continue being the incredible game that it is. I hope you’ll consider ways to balance Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon or adjust the current meta so that more deck diversity can thrive again.

Thank you for continuing to support Duel Links. I genuinely appreciate all the work your team puts into the game, and I hope my feedback helps make an already amazing game even better.
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Fun

Good way to pass time