Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist
Game
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution
Developer Other Ocean Emeryville
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution is 2019 video game from Other Ocean Interactive. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
298 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
86
LovedLoved
179 positive · 29 negative
95% range 81–90%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 179 | 29 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 14 | 4 | 70 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
2,524 of 3,008 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
86% recommend · 172 yes, 29 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 201 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (4,101 of 4,957 positive).
Players praise the game for its massive card pool and nostalgic single-player campaigns. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize the poor user interface and slow, repetitive gameplay. [4][5][6] Many appreciate the lack of microtransactions and paywalls. [7][3][8]
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Representative posts
- [14]
Though the game tries to reinvigorate the classic Yugioh! feeling, the campaign quickly turns into solitaire. That the banlist isn't enforced during the whole campaign does not help this either. I could forgive this, since this isn't the video game's but rather the larger card game's structural fault. However, the game fundamentally does not respect your time. The booster pack rosters (314 cards per roster) are way …
- [1]
I bought Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution for one reason: I’ve been rewatching the anime, and I wanted something that lets me play the story—especially the original Duel Monsters season. It absolutely delivered that “Saturday morning duel” feeling, and then some. This is basically a huge, playable Yu-Gi-Oh! museum: tons of duels across the anime eras, a massive card pool (10,000+ cards), and the …
- [5]
Legacy Of The Duelist is an good game that is buried underneath attrocious UX. You can't bulk purchase booster packs. Can't restart battles without quitting to the story menu. Can't cancel most moves (I don't care if the rules forbid it, it's bad UX. This isn't a real comp, I'm playing a single player game against a bot). Everytime you start a duel the game flashbangs you just before throwing you into the duel, …
- [8]
The greatest Yugioh game ever made. No gotcha systems just duel, win, and earn cards. No wallet needed after initial purchase to buy anything.
- [2]
This game is perfect for someone who only reads the manga or watches the anime like me. Reliving the old days. No sweating, just build whatever deck I want and beat the bots.
Summarised from 34 of the 279 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 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution sits at 86% positive across 208 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Newsweek said "Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution is a must-have for fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh! series who are itching to do some dueling. Putting it on the Switch was a brilliant move, because now you can play a match or two wherever you are". Kotaku said "There's plenty of fun stuff in Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution for competitive players. Ranked and unranked matches, local battles, and plenty of options for deck editing should keep them busy, and sealed play using Battle Packs sounds exciting".
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 298 · most liked firstCard pack opening, GO! Earlier this year I played a lot of card-related games like "TCG Card Shop Simulator" and "Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution", which led to @theslateguardian.bsky.social surprising me with this fun art. #furry #furryart #yugioh
positive · AI labelView post →I bought Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution for one reason: I’ve been rewatching the anime, and I wanted something that lets me play the story—especially the original Duel Monsters season. It absolutely delivered that “Saturday morning duel” feeling, and then some. This is basically a huge, playable Yu-Gi-Oh! museum: tons of duels across the anime eras, a massive card pool (10,000+ cards), and the modern ruleset support that makes it feel less like a retro novelty and more like a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is perfect for someone who only reads the manga or watches the anime like me. Reliving the old days. No sweating, just build whatever deck I want and beat the bots.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is way, WAY better than it has any right to be, given how utterly lazy most of the presentation and structure truly is. What you're getting here is a series of pretty damn barebones visual novel-style recreations of the major story beats from the various YGO anime over the years that lead you into a huge selection of duels against decks built more or less off of the matches from those anime, as well as an equally huge selection of custom challenge decks you unlock throughout the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The best thing I can say about this game is... it runs great on Steam Deck. And it's decent enough Single-Player experience of the game with Modern Rule-set. This game is just Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist, but with remade boss card animations all around and VRAINS anime saga added in. But guess what? They are still selling Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist. It's just more stuff added on top of what was already there. So this game could've been a DLC instead. It almost feels like a Flash game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Though the game tries to reinvigorate the classic Yugioh! feeling, the campaign quickly turns into solitaire. That the banlist isn't enforced during the whole campaign does not help this either. I could forgive this, since this isn't the video game's but rather the larger card game's structural fault. However, the game fundamentally does not respect your time. The booster pack rosters (314 cards per roster) are way too large, slimming the chances of getting the cards you want out of it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ohhh, I love this game. FINALLY found a 1-player game, with a MASSIVE amount of playable cards, that is NOT a roguelike deckbuilder. You don't have to constantly start from scratch! The main issue with this game is at the very beginning, it's extremely difficult to understand how cards group together, and how to build an effective deck. My advice.... just pick ONE species type (insect, machine, plant, rock, fiend, harpie, etc) and start putting just that 1 species type into a deck.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist Link Evolution is an example of a game that is best not finished if you do not enjoy it. This entry takes a fun card game and makes it a slow experience that will waste your time in every way imaginable. Duels are slow, the graphics make the game look cheaply made, and the music is unremarkable. Duels are the worst part of this game, as the animations for summoning monsters, accepting or declining effects, and switching phases add up to a lot of time being…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its fun but oh my god having to say "no" to the game asking me if i want to use an effect every second of a duel makes me want to rip my hair out
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was a reminder of what the game is suppose to be like... GoD (Gen 1) and GX (Gen 2) were the only times Yu-Gi-Yo was actually good. Almost no deck mining, no full deck plays in one turn, and certainly no 20 minutes of merging cards to merge cards to merge cards to link, sycro, tribute, link, XYZ summon some absurd 10 star card. A simple back and forth battle of themed decks.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can play all cards up to up to Ignition Assault, Mystic Fighters, Legendary Duelists: Magical Hero, Structure Deck: Shaddoll Showdown, and Duel Overload. The very last single-player Yu-Gi-Oh game ever released. Sad.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game so much. Granted, you will have to duel a lot to get enough DP for all the cards you want, but I'd rather deal with that than use real money for microtransactions. (looking at you Master Duel)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the best Yugioh game out there right now. I wish they would update this game but they only care about their trash game "Master Duel" Master duel is a joke!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Steam is probably the best platform for gaming on Linux right now. Here are some games I recommend that run well on Linux: - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (the spiritual successor of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night) - Romancing SaGa 3 (retro JRPG that involves non-linear, open-world exploration) - Octopath Traveler 2 (another JRPG; you don't need to play the first game in the series to enjoy this game) - Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist Link Evolution (not a freemium game!)
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t remember the episode where Yami Yugi had way too many Celtic Guardians and Polymirizations while getting his ass slapped around with an endless supply of Pot of Greeds, Swords of revealing Lights, and Graceful Charities before being Exodia’d.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dude. Modern Yugioh is dog water.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A decent yugioh game. But the game's UX is not very good, especially the deck builder menu and effect activation prompt settings
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection and Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution Nintendo Switch are both in stock at VGP 👉 tinyurl.com/5f4s8yse Duelist: $49.99 / 35 USD Early Days $64.99 / 45 USD - Enjoy Free Shipping when you spend $80 / 60 USD
neutral · AI labelView post →Legacy Of The Duelist is an good game that is buried underneath attrocious UX. You can't bulk purchase booster packs. Can't restart battles without quitting to the story menu. Can't cancel most moves (I don't care if the rules forbid it, it's bad UX. This isn't a real comp, I'm playing a single player game against a bot). Everytime you start a duel the game flashbangs you just before throwing you into the duel, which is an absolute disgrace if you're playing this at night. Then there's some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think I might be addicted to Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist
positive · AI labelView post →Save 78% on Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist Bundle on Steam. Sale ends soon!
neutral · AI labelView post →I also played Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution today. Made progress on some of the duels I was stuck on. I have hit another wall where none of my strategies seem to work, though.
neutral · AI labelView post →The greatest Yugioh game ever made. No gotcha systems just duel, win, and earn cards. No wallet needed after initial purchase to buy anything.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is fun i like to play my cards and i like to do my combos and i like the music and i like the design and i like to win the games and i like that i can play the matches from the show and i can even play those matches in reverse and i like the animations that come with certain notorious cards even if it might get repetitive on a grind with the same cards i like that with the campaigns theres a lot of diversity in the decks and playstyles and it lets you experience everything yu gi oh…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Your opponent drew a card. Activate the effect of a card? Y/N It is the draw phase. Activate the effect of a card? Y/N It is the standby phase. Activate the effect of a card? Y/N It is main phase 1. Activate the effect of a card? Y/N It is the battle phase. Activate the effect of a card? Y/N It is main phase 2. Activate the effect of a card? Y/N It is the end phase. Activate the effect of a card? Y/N You're getting sick of seeing this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ message and leaving a negative review on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good Card Game Simulator, very meh video game. Alright, allow me to explain. I've been a fan of the card game since the earliest days. I also really like the manga. Thing is, I don't really get to play the actual card game, for a few reasons. Money is the biggest one. I don't really want to sink dozens of bucks (minumum) into collecting cardboard until I have like one decent deck. I love the cards, the designs etc, but not that much. Second reason is the lack of opportunity to actually play…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The penultimate single-player Yu-gi-oh experience. Play through the entire storyline as either player with story decks, or build your own. Extra fun if you play through it while watching the show
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is actually decent right up until the Vrains campaign from there onwards the game expiditiously hot doses itself with pervitin and strings together the most ludicrous link summon sequences imaginable. Reason and strategy are completely abandoned, you will be waiting 5 business days for the AI's turn to end, you will see more ludicrously luckily drawn cards than the exodia match, you will see the game openly ignore card affects regardless of card speed. Of course this can be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Legacy of the Duelist Link Evolution is one of the better Yu-Gi-Oh games that delivers a solid single player experience. It covers all of the iconic duels from the anime and has a solid 6 seasons worth of content to work through and even offers reverse role duels once you beat it. There are thousands of cards to collect and nothing is locked behind a paywall of any kind unlike some of the newer games Konami has released. The deck builder while not the best I've ever experienced is still pretty…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Our #Konami #BlackFriday Publisher Sale launches at midnight EST. 👉http://tinyurl.com/34m8z8az Silent Hill 2 $59.99 / 43 USD Metal Gear Solid Vol.1 Master Col $29.99 / 21 USD TMNT Cowabunga Collection $29.99 / 21 USD YU-GI-OH Legacy of the Duelist Link $39.99 / 28 USD +more...
neutral · AI labelView post →🔹Going Live (in about ten minutes)🔹 It's day seven of Streamtember. Time to start a new challenge stream! A game I've never played on stream before. Can I beat Yu-Gi-Oh Legacy of the Duelist Link Evolution using one of my childhood decks? #twitch #vtuber #yugioh
neutral · AI labelView post →ITS TIME TO S-S-S-SAIL! Live now playing Yu-Gi-Oh Legacy of The Duelist before more Wind Waker HD! www.twitch.tv/jessiesthebe...
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is alot of fun. No paywalls or micro transactions. Dont care for the link stuff but rest of the game feels old school enough from a modern perspective.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game if you're searching for a good 1-player yugioh experience. You can get most cards in yugioh without paying more than the base game. You're not pressured to build the most meta decks, you can easily build weird decks and combos, and still have fun and win (tho only against cpus). A tipp for anyone struggling against the pop-ups of "want to activate the effects?". Press and hold the right key on your mouse, it will stop the pop-up to even show up. But remember to let go WHEN you do…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The UI is awful, who gave this an approval?! I wanted to play Yu Gi Oh because I really like the art style of the cards, but the way it's made you can barely see the cards, and even if you could, the UI is so bad that it makes the game feel super lame, I'm back to playing solitaire.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As someone whose TCG experience is like, 90% M:TG, the existence of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist games feels insane to me. 10,000+ cards and a fully featured singleplayer campaign alongside (now sadly non-functional) online? M:TG would *never* do something like that.
positive · AI labelView post →I should go to sleep but I've got a newfound enjoyment in Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist. そろそろ寝たほうがいいんだけど、『遊☆戯☆王 デュエリストの遺産』に新たな楽しみを見出してしまったんだ。
positive · AI labelView post →Good game, but it has annoying constant pop ups for if you want to activate a card. No game, i want to use my card later. Singleplayer gameplay pretty good, i recommend if you know nothing about playing yu-gi-oh- this game will teach you all the mechanics and basic knowledge. Online is dead, you either need a friend with the copy of the game or get lucky to find someone online (good luck with that lol) When it comes to getting cards, the whole process is pretty grindy- but i don't mind it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →9/10 Great game! This is the best Yu-Gi-Oh! single-player game you can play offline without worrying that Konami will shut down the servers. Even though Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links and Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel are the games people tend to prefer, it’s important to remember that those games require a constant internet connection. Otherwise, it would end up like Yu-Gi-Oh! Cross Duel. It’s great that you can relive the story modes from various Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series, but the story mode in Yu-Gi-Oh!…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yeah sure I can wait 15 minutes for you to pull all your xyz-synchro-link-pendulum-poly summons all in one turn but I'm still gonna dark hole and pull Exodia because my balls were promised a spot on your forehead 3000 years ago.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yugioh Fan For Life and man does this game cure that itch when i want to play yugioh and have no one to play against. XD
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After beating very campaign with story mode only deck (yet to beat all in reverse), if you are wanting to have the full yugioh experience without having to play master duel this is the best thing to play. Every Archetype pre 2020 is here to where you get to experience a lot of era's of yugioh seeing how it evolves from slowly playing a few monsters at a time to summoning 20 monsters in a single turn near the end. The only thing bad about this game is the online scene is pretty much dead so its…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist sprite edit, featuring a rather rebellious Alexis Rhodes!
neutral · AI labelView post →great for beginners. Easy tutorials and the gen 1 and 2 are easier to understand. no Try hard like in master duel. go at your own pace. easier to build your deck
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Without question, the best game to play if you're just trying to learn how to play Yu-Gi-Oh I suggest players who are new to Yu-Gi-Oh play this first before trying Master Duel. I understand that the UI is a bit dated, and the card pool is kinda lacking compared to Master Duel's current format. However, I believe this game brings in the love of the lore brought by Duel Links and a format similar to Master Duel that lets new players dive deep and fall in love with the game AND its lore, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A to X have all been done, only 2 games left. Y is Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution Z is Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Weird to think the ABC challenge is almost over. Glad to have stuck to it even though this year has been all over the place. Golden Axe II was still the worst.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun game if you like playing Yu-gi-oh! or ever wanted to test a duel that was from the animes.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Infinitely playable and great fun. Amazing deck build variation, strong AI with a huge pool of opponents to choose from.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →crunched the numbers and Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution has 515 premade duels you can do that's kinda crazy, value-wise
positive · AI labelView post →Okay, so just as a heads up, because it was too late at night and because I am running on low energy, I've decided to swap the Mice Tea stream out for Yu-Gi-Oh Legacy of the Duelist instead. Would ya'll want me to stream Mice Tea tomorrow or push it off to next week? Genuine question.
neutral · AI labelView post →We are live playing some Yu-Gi-Oh Legacy of the Duelist Link Evolution. Can't wait to see you there! www.twitch.tv/greatmangrey...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tentative schedule for this week (Birb isn't at 100% health yet): - Sunday: Super Secret Sunday Stream - Let's try some indie games! - Monday: Shantae and the Seven Sirens - Wednesday: Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist - Friday: Pokemon Black - The Bugcatcher Challenge!
neutral · AI labelView post →🔹Going Live (in about ten minutes)🔹 It's day fourteen of Streamtember. Time for more of my Yu-Gi-Oh Legacy of the Duelist challenge. I've been surviving so far but when do I hit the point where I just can't win? #twitch #vtuber #yugioh
neutral · AI labelView post →The game will sometimes crash right as you get the exodia win, which is hilarious.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely awful game. Using story decks you, just brick your hand constantly until you get lucky and win. Problem is, you'll be using story decks in the beginning. The entirety of the game is just RNG of your first hand.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Feels cheap and like the bare minimum for some reason. The CPU is really dumb. What makes this review positive is you can (could) get this game for 5 dollars and sort of learn modern YuGiOh or get into the card game at your own pace without feeling overwhelmed since you can select between generations to play. So if you're a Duel Monsters kind of guy (you like YuGiOh before it got "complicated) then you have alot of choices from Duelist Kingdom to Duel City to uh um idk man. If you were okay at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The tutorials are amazing, they genuinely helped me understand how to play yugioh better than i did, I learned every type of summon even the trickier ones from when i got out of yugioh like the xyz summons etc. the single player mode has a lot of content. The bad outweighs the good, without a crafting system good luck getting the cards you need to complete your deck. but my main issue is just what yugioh has become in a modern day format. every game like legacy and duel links and master duel…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The ai cheats like crazy also if ur winning it still feels scripted ..... the gameplay is worse then legacy of duelist this is just a ♥♥♥♥♥ console port .....unskipable animations and alot of time wasting .... expiriancing the the story duels is kinda cool concept but everything around it feels very ♥♥♥♥♥♥.... get duel links u will have more fun there u cant alt tab on second screen to do something till the ai finishes its turn the game just pauses which u could do in legacy of the duelist its…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Things that PSP games did better: -Fast loading times -Free roaming -Better card resolution -Duel animations -Smoother signature monster summoning animations -Easier to get cards that you want -Option to edit ai decks -Tag duels -Ai vs ai duels -Voice acting -Better ai somewhat -Voice acting -Anime only cards Things that the most recent single player focused Yu-Gi-Oh game did better: -Has more cards Despite this being a minimum effort product by Konami, if you like YGO, this is still a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unironically one of the best ways to play Yu-Gi-Oh online without having to grind / spend real money on packs in a f2p game.
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