# Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links — user reviews > 1,030 indexed App Store user reviews of Yu by KONAMI, rated 4.70/5 from 89,655 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yu-gi-oh-duel-links/id1068378177/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yu-gi-oh-duel-links/id1068378177.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 79,138 · 4★ 4,743 · 3★ 1,519 · 2★ 901 · 1★ 3,354 ## What do users think of Yu? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fast-paced gameplay - 👍 Nostalgic for Yu-Gi-Oh fans - 💡 Unique character skills and abilities - 🚀 Quick duels - 👍 Generous free-to-play model **Cons** - 🐛 Matchmaking issues in PvP - 🔒 Difficulty recovering lost accounts - 💰 Monetization can feel heavy-handed - 🔒 Lack of account syncing across devices - 🐛 Graphical bugs and glitches **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent connection issues during PvP - Deck list tutorial getting stuck in a loop - Incorrect card effects not matching the real game - Auto-duel making poor plays leading to losses **Most requested features** - Add more monster and spell/trap card zones - Implement a 40-card deck format - Introduce Xyz, Pendulum, and Link summoning mechanics - Add more characters and story content - Improve the friend duel system ## Newest reviews (17 of 1,030) ### 3/5 — Mise à jour *2026-08-23, version 10.11.0* Mise à jour trop longue à télécharger!! ### 4/5 — Please komoney *2026-08-19, version 10.10.0* It is 2026 and we still don’t have 3 copy’s of toy vender. Stay strong fluffal bros ### 2/5 — Acceptably Mediocre *2026-08-11, version 10.10.0* 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. ### 2/5 — No ban list control *2026-08-09, version 10.10.0* 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! ### 4/5 — Plz add Rage Yuya Sasaki *2026-08-07, version 10.10.0* 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 ### 1/5 — BEWARE! if your game wont let you connect your KONAMI id. dont use your gems or anything *2026-08-01, version 10.10.0* 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. ### 2/5 — I lost my id *2026-08-01, version 10.10.0* 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 ### 3/5 — Free to play but Character skills gone too far *2026-07-30, version 10.10.0* 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) ### 3/5 — Power creep *2026-07-28, version 10.10.0* 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. ### 2/5 — Too much storage *2026-07-26, version 10.10.0* 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! ### 1/5 — Just let me play the game! *2026-07-25, version 10.10.0* 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! ### 4/5 — Dualing online against other people *2026-07-25, version 10.10.0* 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 ### 3/5 — Acceptably Mediocre *2026-07-24, version 10.10.0* 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. ### 1/5 — Absolutely Garbage in terms of authenticity *2026-07-22, version 10.10.0* 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! ### 1/5 — New link monsters overpowered and changed the whole game! *2026-07-20, version 10.10.0* 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 ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing *2026-07-18, version 10.10.0* Dueling a vagrant and every time he plays a pot of greed the game crashes ### 1/5 — Original cards are the only way to play and have fun *2026-07-16, version 10.9.0* cheating new cards in this game makes this game unworthy of plane ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Takes up all your storage *2026-09-01, version 10.11.0* Deleting this as it’s by far the largest app I have at like over 10gb worth of storage. ### 1/5 — Game is a Microtransactions Fest *2026-08-31, version 10.11.0* This game is far from what it used to be. These devs dont know what else they can possibly monetize. Right after booting up the game you get hit with offers, nonsense scenes you cant get out off and advertisements. Its literally $8 for 10 packs so if you want to build a deck you better be ready to spend over $150-$200 to even come close to it. ### 1/5 — Needs major rework *2026-08-28, version 10.11.0* I don’t know why when I have auto battle on, and ai takes 2 whole minutes to decide on a simple thing. I mean I already knew he was dumber than a rock but is he mentally disabled? And when he pulls this, you can’t even turn it off because he’s going to ignore the auto button completely and continue to do whatever it was that took him sooooo long to decide to do. Been issue for years. Shoulda been fixed years ago too but even tho I report to support they don’t give me any real answer back. It’s bad. Been reported multiple times and still major bad issue. Sounds like someone over there doesn’t care. ### 1/5 — Terrible game don’t waste your time *2026-08-27, version 10.11.0* The greed to force people to play ranked knowing how terrible your game is is laughable sit through a 15 minutes long turn while a guy fills the board for 50 gems funnelling players into ranked to help your dying game keep any kinda numbers is hilarious ### 1/5 — 1 Star for for sound and Customer service *2026-08-26, version 10.11.0* This game is insanely fun but what weird is the game plays perfectly but no sound comes out I checked the settings In-Game and ON my Phone and nothing seems to work and the support on the website is nonexistent as it keeps asking for a valid email (It was the same email I logged in Konami’s website with) I will change the review if it’s fixed because I do love the game ### 1/5 — Superheavy Samurai does not work as intended! *2026-08-22, version 10.11.0* Spent 30,000 gems making a superheavy samurai deck. The in-game auto-duel feature places them all in attack position despite being able to attack while in defense position. Support told me they will not fix it, nor refund some of my gems. Billion dollar company by the way! lol ### 1/5 — Dragoon spam *2026-08-19, version 10.10.0* I promise PVP is no fun no more no creativity just players spamming the same cards over and over. Especially Red eyes Dark dragoon!! The card is literally too overpowered everytime u try anything its going to negate or destroy your monster the card is not even real just something the creators decided to add and its game killing definitely uninstalling ### 1/5 — Rating *2026-08-17, version 10.10.0* Plese make this game playable in regions like vietnam. If you about hacking, then your game design is simply poor. ### 1/5 — Just waste of time! *2026-08-04, version 10.10.0* 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. ### 1/5 — poor card character *2026-08-02, version 10.10.0* 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 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love the game *2026-08-27, version 10.11.0* I love the game and I rate it five stars because ive never had an issue with it and I had a blast playing it and Theres always something to do and that’s what I love the only thing I do wish though is for them to bring back some old events so I can get those event cards because I wasn’t playing during those times and I would enjoy having those thank you for the game ### 5/5 — Nice and relaxing game *2026-08-13, version 10.10.0* Pretty good game nice and relaxing except they put cards does not in the original show. They have effects they make you wanna quit the game ### 5/5 — Duel links is the best *2026-08-06, version 10.10.0* Awesome fun game ### 5/5 — Brings back memories *2026-07-14, version 10.9.0* 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. ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-07-12, version 10.9.0* Good way to pass time ### 5/5 — Awsome *2026-07-08, version 10.9.0* Awsomezxxxzzxzzzxxbxbxvzvzvzbx ### 5/5 — Duel links go rush is awesome!! *2026-07-08, version 10.9.0* This game is really great and the fact that I can play Rush duels makes it the best! It’s really enjoy the requiem contact fusion deck and recommend that they keep releasing Rush duel cards for the go rush anime!! ### 5/5 — It’s for you *2026-07-07, version 10.9.0* This game is beast mode ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-07-07, version 10.9.0* Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links is one of the best mobile adaptations of the classic Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game. It successfully captures the excitement of the anime while streamlining the gameplay for mobile devices through the Speed Duel format. Matches are fast-paced, making it easy to play a quick duel during a break or spend hours climbing the ranked ladder. The game features a large roster of iconic characters from multiple Yu-Gi-Oh! series, each with unique skills that add strategic depth. The card pool is extensive and continues to grow with regular updates, events, and new worlds, keeping the gameplay fresh for both new and veteran players. Visually, Duel Links looks great, with smooth animations, impressive summoning sequences, and authentic voice acting that enhances the nostalgic experience. The soundtrack also fits the atmosphere well and adds excitement to duels. One downside is the game’s monetization. While it is possible to play for free, acquiring the latest competitive decks can require significant grinding or spending money on card packs. Some players may also find the evolving meta frustrating if they prefer casual play. Overall, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links is an excellent digital card game that balances nostalgia, strategy, and accessibility. Whether you’re a longtime Yu-Gi-Oh! fan or someone looking to learn the game, it offers an engaging experience with plenty of content to enjoy. ### 5/5 — alexis castillo *2026-07-03, version 10.9.0* alexis Castillo --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-03.*