Yu-Gi-Oh! EARLY DAYS COLLECTION
Developer Digital Eclipse
Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection is a video game compilation developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Konami, released in commemoration of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game's 25th anniversary. It contains emulated versions of the first 14 handheld games based on the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, originally released between 1998 and 2004. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
344 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 29, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
149 positive · 34 negative
95% range 75–86%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 149 | 34 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 30 | 5 | 115 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
What players are saying
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 183 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (410 of 536 positive).
Many feel the $50 price is too high and recommend waiting for a sale. [1][2][3]
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Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories should be in this collection... $39.99 just to play Dark Duel Stories is a scam even when it's on sale. Forced to pay for 8 extra trash games just to replay 1 childhood classic.
- [9]
Glad to have this game, but KONAMI please give us another collection that has games like Forbidden Memories, Duelists of the Roses, and The Falsebound Kingdom.
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TL;DR: EARLY DAYS COLLECTION is a good game collection that features a mixed bag of games. Some are good, some are great, and some aren't worth playing. I recommend getting this collection when it's on sale, because the $50 MSRP is steep. First and foremost: The price. It's steep, and I think it's the main thing many people will point to regarding this collection. This collection is good! But the price makes it a …
- [14]
A LOT of people are upset that this didn't include Forbidden Memories, Duelist of the Rose or the Tag Force games and they just included all the old handheld games... guys its called Early Days Collection not the EVERY SINGLE YU-GI-OH! GAME THAT HAS RELEASED collection. Either way I'm glad I'm able to play these games to the fullest and actually have them in my library, collections like these need to be out for a …
- [2]
for 50 DOLLARS? no. for 15 dollars. it's fine
Summarised from 34 of the 340 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
82% of the 183 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Yu-Gi-Oh! EARLY DAYS COLLECTION. The complaint that keeps coming up: overpriced at full $50 MSRP. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection received "mixed or average" reception according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received fair approval, being recommended by 39% of critics. Jordan Biordi of CG Magazine praised the comprehensive nature of the collection, but believed the games might feel too archaic for newcomers to enjoy. Cody Perez of Siliconera felt a select few of the included games, particularly those that diverged from the traditional Yu-Gi-Oh! formula, made the collection a worthwhile purchase. Chris Penwell of Hardcore Gamer believed more could have been done to modernize the older games' mechanics through…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 344 · most liked firstThe fact the Yu-Gi-Oh Early Days Collection games include "phonetic Brooklyn" in their localizations puts a smile on my face.
positive · AI labelView post →Glad to have this game, but KONAMI please give us another collection that has games like Forbidden Memories, Duelists of the Roses, and The Falsebound Kingdom.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Yu-Gi-Oh! EARLY DAYS COLLECTION trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdpK... Preorder Switch w/ bonus card: Amazon buff.ly/3BnHhdv Best Buy buff.ly/4h685it GameStop buff.ly/3A00kde Target buff.ly/3YqCrES Walmart buff.ly/3YsHXqE VGP buff.ly/3Ys4wvG PNP Games buff.ly/48f1XAy
neutral · AI labelView post →Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories should be in this collection... $39.99 just to play Dark Duel Stories is a scam even when it's on sale. Forced to pay for 8 extra trash games just to replay 1 childhood classic.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Konami reported record-breaking quarterly profit during October to December 2024, driven by Silent Hill 2. Upcoming games include: Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection, Suikoden I & II HD Remaster, and Metal Gear Solid Delta. Is Konami Back? automaton-media.com/en/news/kona...
neutral · AI labelView post →Surprise! We've been working with @Konami on the Yu-Gi-Oh Early Days Collection this year, too. Duel across 14 handheld games, now enhanced with modern conveniences. www.konami.com/yugioh/early... Wishlist on Steam now; out for Switch & PC Feb 2025! store.steampowered.com/app/3013550/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection full games list announced (14 total) www.gematsu.com/2024/12/yu-g... Newly added: -Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule GB -Yu-Gi-Oh! Dungeon Dice Monsters -Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel
neutral · AI labelView post →literally ONLY the gameboy and gameboy advance games you still have to look elsewhere for forbidden memories or duelists of roses
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →~ DIFFICULTY ~ 🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it 🔲 Easy ✅ Normal 🔲 Hard 🔲 Dark Souls ~ GRAPHICS ~ 🔲 MS Paint 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh ✅ Graphics dont matter in this game 🔲 Good 🔲 Beautiful ~ MUSIC ~ 🔲 Bad ✅ Not special 🔲 Good 🔲 Eargasm ~ STORY ~ 🔲 This game has no story 🔲 Like playing Temple Runners for the story ✅ It's there for the people who want it 🔲 Well written 🔲 Epic story ~ PRICE ~ 🔲 Free 🔲 Underpriced 🔲 Perfect Price ✅ Could be cheaper 🔲 Overpriced 🔲 Complete waste of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →first look at the Yu-Gi-Oh! EARLY DAYS COLLECTION box art
neutral · AI labelView post →Apparently the full list of games featured in Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection has leaked Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection releases February 27 Physical release includes a random bonus card Pre-order Best Buy: bit.ly/3V6RAZW Amazon: amzn.to/4ePLcNT Target: bit.ly/3ZnvpBv #ad Walmart: bit.ly/3B02v0Y
neutral · AI labelView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) preorder w/ bonus card is $49.99 (out this week) Amazon buff.ly/4beMEt1 Best Buy buff.ly/4h685it GameStop buff.ly/3A00kde Target buff.ly/3QwwK3v Walmart buff.ly/3QAtVhO VGP buff.ly/3Ys4wvG PNP Games buff.ly/48f1XAy #ad
neutral · AI labelView post →I've had my fun. Now bring us the Tag Force collection.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great collection for OG yugioh fans. Hopefully they’ll do a ps2/gamecube era collection next with duelist of the roses, capsule monster coliseum etc
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really hope this Yu-Gi-Oh Early Days Collection rumor is correct because 7 Trials to Glory and WCT 2004 were some of my favorite games growing up. I still have my old copies!
positive · AI labelView post →Duel Monsters (1998gb) B+ tier. Box art is great, its rather short, its not too difficult and it plays really fast in the collection. Wonderful art for the cards. A great starting point for Yu-Gi-Oh!. This deserves a lot of attention simply for being the foundation of the series. Duel Monsters 2/ Dark Duel Stories Japan? (1999gbc) C tier. Didn't improve enough to make it worth it. Made a few things worse. Slowed down the gameplay with extra options and was mostly repetitive. Big detractor was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its nice to have these games available but like, it would be nice to have the ps2 and psp games as well as forbidden memories.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) preorder w/ bonus card is $49.99: Amazon buff.ly/3BnHhdv Best Buy buff.ly/4h685it GameStop buff.ly/3A00kde Target buff.ly/3YqCrES Walmart buff.ly/3YsHXqE VGP buff.ly/3Ys4wvG PNP Games buff.ly/48f1XAy
neutral · AI labelView post →I bought the game just to play DungeonDice Monsters online. Pretty worth it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →here's the official ESRB box art for Yu-Gi-Oh! EARLY DAYS COLLECTION physical release includes a free bonus card pre-order here: bit.ly/3Sdem15
neutral · AI labelView post →TL;DR: EARLY DAYS COLLECTION is a good game collection that features a mixed bag of games. Some are good, some are great, and some aren't worth playing. I recommend getting this collection when it's on sale, because the $50 MSRP is steep. First and foremost: The price. It's steep, and I think it's the main thing many people will point to regarding this collection. This collection is good! But the price makes it a tough sell for anyone who isn't the most diehard Yugioh fan. (Specifically the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Rumor] Seems like the complete list of games for the 'Yu-Gi-Oh Early Days Collection' got leaked. Sadly no Forbidden Memories on the list.
neutral · AI labelView post →An extremely overpriced collection containing generally the weakest and worst Yu-Gi-Oh games. Sacred Cards and Reshef of destruction are probably the only genuinely good games (Reshelf only if you turn on some of the built in cheats to bypass the ridiculous unfair difficulty). The rest of the collection ranges from "fine but later instalments did it much better" to several forms of digital torture. At full price this collection is a scam, it should be £20 full price at max and it'd still say…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was having a real TCG itch so I bought this on sale for $39.99. Decided to wait until I got all the achievements until I wrote a review. I'll write a quick review for each game in the collection along with it's biggest pro and con. Duel Monsters: Very reminiscent of the original few anime episodes where they make rules up as they go. 98% of the cards are normal monsters. Pro: Pixel art is good Con: basically just the card game 'War' where big number wins and you slam fatter monsters into each…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) is $31.99 on Woot buff.ly/ZBb8ivw
neutral · AI labelView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection confirms three additional titles www.gematsu.com/2024/09/yu-g...
neutral · AI labelView post →Got my copy of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection
neutral · AI labelView post →Free game??? The card that Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection comes with is worth more than the game costs on Amazon: bit.ly/3Sdem15 $19.99 lowest price ever This deal doesn't require a Prime membership now but keeps selling out
neutral · AI labelView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection releases February 27! Includes random bonus card Best Buy: bit.ly/3V6RAZW Amazon: amzn.to/4ePLcNT Target: bit.ly/3ZnvpBv Walmart: bit.ly/3B02v0Y JP release includes different cards (English is on game card) Amazon Japan: amzn.to/3WxRyei Play-Asia: bit.ly/4aBjZhl #ad
neutral · AI labelView post →I did end up getting the Yu-Gi-Oh: Early Days Collection. I've tried messed around with some of the later entries and felt like I wasn't understanding something about how to play but just trying the first Game Boy game without a lot of the rules from the newer games made it click.
positive · AI labelView post →for 50 DOLLARS? no. for 15 dollars. it's fine
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) is $14.39 on Woot MOBILE APP (discount at final checkout screen) buff.ly/PBjffgg #ad
neutral · AI labelView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) is $28.79 on Woot App (extra discount at final checkout screen) buff.ly/4z7NSGw
neutral · AI labelView post →The Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection offers 14 iconic Yu-Gi-Oh! digital titles. Coming February 27, 2025 -- preorder the physical edition at your favorite retailer! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdpK...
neutral · AI labelView post →Deal still available: Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) is $19.99 on Target Circle buff.ly/BCUKBIv #ad includes one of two cards - Quarter Century Secret Rare
neutral · AI labelView post →ONLY GET THIS ON SALE THIS ONLY CONTAINS THE HANDHELD OLD GAMES WE REALLY NEED THE PS1 AND PS2 GAMES, KONAMI
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really wish this had Duelist Of The Roses and Tag Force games
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just in time, my copy of the Yu-Gi-Oh Early Days Collection has arrived!
neutral · AI labelView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) is $17.99 on Woot buff.ly/BzCqPLH
neutral · AI labelView post →Overpriced for what you get. Wait for it to be on sale.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) is $19.99 on Woot buff.ly/HHTfyN6
neutral · AI labelView post →I do wish that it had Forbidden Memories and Duelist of the Roses, it's still pretty good. Definitely a bit pricey though.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Konami is streaming an English intro trailer for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection game, highlighting the new features such as online play for some games.
neutral · AI labelView post →Honestly, not a bad collection. Not a great one though either, and I will explain why. Bought it to enjoy the OG Yu-gi-oh experience before I truly got into the game. I really just have three complaints. The first one is obvious and let's get it out of the way. The price. No, this bundle is not worth it at full price. I am in no way going to defend this horrid price gouging. I only swallowed my pride and gave in so I could experience it at face value and give an honest opinion. And I have to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Review] Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection shows that it can be fun to revisit the past, but we also have to acknowledge that sometimes the past can be awkward.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Yu-Gi-Oh! EARLY DAYS COLLECTION Trailer. youtube.com/watch?v=WdpK... Pre-Order: Yu-Gi-Oh! EARLY DAYS COLLECTION (S) $49.99 via Amazon (Prime Eligible). ow.ly/qgPe50UKojf Target. ow.ly/k9fV50UKojv VGP. ow.ly/oFpC50UKojk GameStop. ow.ly/MUcJ50UKojt Best Buy. ow.ly/TAA950UKojp
neutral · AI labelView post →The Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection will d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-duel on February 27!
neutral · AI labelView post →To be fair, the pack is exactly what it says it is, and the extra save and load feature is pretty nice. That said, I can't recommend this unless there's specific games on this list you want. They call it the 'early days' pack, but exclude every popular game (like the duelist of the roses) and only included the extremely simplified ones, most of which don't even use trap cards. If you want to play these specific games, then it's exactly what you want. If you want to play the fun yugioh…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"The translated texts use the Western names from the TV series. This attention to detail is always beautiful [...] the people in charge have done an excellent job " - Atomix on the localization of Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection, 85/100 atomix.vg/review-yu-gi...
positive · AI labelView post →Really good ad for Yu-Gi-Oh Early Days Collection www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVct...
neutral · AI labelView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) physical release is 64% off on Woot!: bit.ly/4mVGeUE $17.99 lowest price ever The card it comes with is worth ~$20
neutral · AI labelView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) physical release is 16% off on Amazon and Walmart: bit.ly/42lVqCM $41.92 lowest price ever
neutral · AI labelView post →***Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) physical release is 10% off on Woot: bit.ly/4hyRGSM #ad $44.99 free shipping with Amazon Prime
neutral · AI labelView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection - Official Announcement Trailer.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love the old games but man do i feel like they put no effort in to making this. It feel like they made straight ports without optimizing anything for the pc experience. I can't justify the buy when i stutter and lag to 0 frames after every action in a duel and struggle to find the right button for each games controls.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unless you have a deep nostalgia for the original gameboy games I'd skip this. You're better off emulating other titles or playing Legacy of the Duelist. The other titles might be better but personally even at a high discount this isn't really worth it for most players/
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →can't wait for the biggest February game release ever - dozens of hours of challenging content - amazing characters - peak Soundtrack - so much costumization in regards to builds - is actually 14 games!! all of this is why I can't wait for Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (picture unrelated)
positive · AI labelView post →He's checking out Yu-Gi-Oh Early Days Collection
neutral · AI labelView post →HELP! MAXIMILLION PEGASUS STOLE MY SOUL AND PUT IT IN A TV OVER A CARD GAME! I'm excited for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection #Rybucart
positive · AI labelView post →A LOT of people are upset that this didn't include Forbidden Memories, Duelist of the Rose or the Tag Force games and they just included all the old handheld games... guys its called Early Days Collection not the EVERY SINGLE YU-GI-OH! GAME THAT HAS RELEASED collection. Either way I'm glad I'm able to play these games to the fullest and actually have them in my library, collections like these need to be out for a ton of games, this was just a great ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ deal!
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