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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
KONAMI · 89,485 ratings · ★ 4.7
4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 57 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"game"
42 negative reviews mention this · 74% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Awful now!. If you participate in the last KaibaCorp event you understand what I’m saying, Therion, Mr.D, Adena, I’m tired that every time that the normal players we try so hard to build a deck with gems they just do this, it’s just a Pay-To Win, they …" - RBT Exam Pass
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"cards"
14 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Need fixed the Game. I am writing to you because I have been playing this game for many years-ever since I was a child. I have loved it since the very beginning; ever since the mobile app was released, I have been a loyal fan because I have cherished this game …" - Ulquiorra$
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"crashes"
14 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pay to win/ crash unexpectedly. I have played this game for years now, and I feel very comfortable saying that they just want your money. It is absolutely ridiculous how when you’re just about to reach a milestone the game just crashes and you loose all your progress. You…" - sapper134
4
"game crashes"
11 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Game crashes after 5min. This game has a terrible crashing problem….this needs to be addressed. It makes the game unplayed." - xyyperson
5
"play"
10 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Awful now!. If you participate in the last KaibaCorp event you understand what I’m saying, Therion, Mr.D, Adena, I’m tired that every time that the normal players we try so hard to build a deck with gems they just do this, it’s just a Pay-To Win, they …" - RBT Exam Pass
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"duel"
10 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Need fixed the Game. I am writing to you because I have been playing this game for many years-ever since I was a child. I have loved it since the very beginning; ever since the mobile app was released, I have been a loyal fan because I have cherished this game …" - Ulquiorra$
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"every"
8 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Awful now!. If you participate in the last KaibaCorp event you understand what I’m saying, Therion, Mr.D, Adena, I’m tired that every time that the normal players we try so hard to build a deck with gems they just do this, it’s just a Pay-To Win, they …" - RBT Exam Pass
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"deck"
8 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Awful now!. If you participate in the last KaibaCorp event you understand what I’m saying, Therion, Mr.D, Adena, I’m tired that every time that the normal players we try so hard to build a deck with gems they just do this, it’s just a Pay-To Win, they …" - RBT Exam Pass
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"money"
8 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Awful now!. If you participate in the last KaibaCorp event you understand what I’m saying, Therion, Mr.D, Adena, I’m tired that every time that the normal players we try so hard to build a deck with gems they just do this, it’s just a Pay-To Win, they …" - RBT Exam Pass
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"been"
8 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Need fixed the Game. I am writing to you because I have been playing this game for many years-ever since I was a child. I have loved it since the very beginning; ever since the mobile app was released, I have been a loyal fan because I have cherished this game …" - Ulquiorra$
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"since"
8 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Need fixed the Game. I am writing to you because I have been playing this game for many years-ever since I was a child. I have loved it since the very beginning; ever since the mobile app was released, I have been a loyal fan because I have cherished this game …" - Ulquiorra$
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"duels"
8 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Need fixed the Game. I am writing to you because I have been playing this game for many years-ever since I was a child. I have loved it since the very beginning; ever since the mobile app was released, I have been a loyal fan because I have cherished this game …" - Ulquiorra$
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Awful now!
If you participate in the last KaibaCorp event you understand what I’m saying, Therion, Mr.D, Adena, I’m tired that every time that the normal players we try so hard to build a deck with gems they just do this, it’s just a Pay-To Win, they build deck (no meta decks) (imposible decks) you can’t even do nothing no matter what. I’m going to unistall the game. You guys can still spending money.
Need fixed the Game
I am writing to you because I have been playing this game for many years-ever since I was a child. I have loved it since the very beginning; ever since the mobile app was released, I have been a loyal fan because I have cherished this game my entire life. However, lately, it has become impossible to play against monsters that activate their effects over and over again-summoning more than 20 monsters in a single turn, triggering over 20 effects in just one turn, and completely filling the field with monsters in one fell swoop. These types of monsters have completely unbalanced the game of Monster Duels, making it impossible to enjoy. I really miss the days of the early anniversaries. Please-this game desperately needs a balance adjustment of cards because it is very far from what the duel of musts really is.
Trash
The game was way better before they started adding all the new dumb cards
Fix your gacha rates
I pulled 13 packs and didn’t get anything above R, so I deleted the game lol. I’m sick to death of these predatory gacha mechanics that just make spend all your money.
Unbalanced.
Skills Are Unique But Very Very Unbalanced.
游戏卡顿
ios26.4系统不兼容这游戏版本，没更新，运行掉帧卡顿，请尽快优化
boring all the same
this game is ridiculous, everyone always playing the same broken decks. you can only go sooo far until you hit the point of broken meta decks. after a few matches im done with this game. Every time its always a broken meta deck wether its an event or just plain pvps. How boring to use a deck and same strategy as everyone else. there is no room for originality here, what this game needs more than anything is stop uploading these ridiculous broken meta decks
LOST ALL PROGRESS!
I haven’t played in awhile. But some of my friends and I were rewatching the show. I told them about this game and my deck with God cards and Blue Eyes. I download the game to show them the characters and decks I have all for it to be gone. Now I’m looking stupid in front of others and on top of that feeling hurt to the time I put into the decks I built!😭😭🤬 Besides that I do like the game and would play it again and suggest it to others if that problem was fixed.
Red eyes dark dragoon.
If your opponent goes first with Joey it’s almost a 100% lose. The only counter is Polly I have but if I don’t get get it with my strategy that can be easily countered by this card just remove if from ranked it’s has no skill what so ever
P2W
Absolute garbage new currency system + hiding staple cards behind timed selection boxes. Go f yourself
Trash
Trash asf. They made the game whoever goes second gets an instant win. Cards are way way way too powerful. They ruined the game. TRASH
Worst event
The event of wave duel is a hard on the rush duel fix it now so the game can be easy to beat. The opponent beat me in one move all the time fix it now or I’m done playing this cheating game 😡. This was fun but until you made the npc to hard to beat. Make all npc easy to beat now.
Arrow Clicking Simulator
I wanted to get back into dual links but it feels like the entire game is click where the arrow points. There should be a way to skip it
Konami
konami the ptm 60 envelopes and I still don't get the ur that I'm missing you did the same to me with 2 sr I had to fold 2 boxes mrd set
Dumb af
This game is dumb af
Game freezes
Anytime I go online the game freezes mid game and then I have to close out of the app causing me to lose the game and it happens very frequently and also prevents me from closing out or even turning off my phone. Hope the issue gets fixed ASAP.
Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon
This card needs to be taken out of the game or completely nerfed. No cards are being able to be used against it, and there is literally a card named “De-Fusion” that LITERALLY defuses Fusion cards. How are you going to have a busted card like this in the game but not have “Pot Of Greed” to be obtainable in the shop or otherwise obtainable?
Pay to win/ crash unexpectedly
I have played this game for years now, and I feel very comfortable saying that they just want your money. It is absolutely ridiculous how when you’re just about to reach a milestone the game just crashes and you loose all your progress. You’re also not reaching KOG without spending your own money, and they don’t care because every month they drop a new pack and the meta changes completely to where the deck you built becomes obsolete. If you mind spending money, don’t even bother playing this.
Game structure is good but it’s SO. BUGGY!!!!!!
I want to love this game. Really, I do. But it’s really hard to enjoy the game when it freezes and crashes 2-3 times per duel. Literally every single PvP duel I play, I end up having to close and reopen the app at LEAST twice during the duel. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all and then automatically gives me a loss. This has happened so many times that the game isn’t even fun anymore. Devs PLEASE FIX YOUR APP!!!
Games now unfair
Everyone spams the same combo using red eyes dark dragon since it’s been unbanned making ranked unfair and not enjoyable they banned this card for a reason it should have never been unbanned
Game crashes after 5min
This game has a terrible crashing problem….this needs to be addressed. It makes the game unplayed.
Cruel Links
The longer you play, the meaner the game is to you, and the less fun you have. Take it from me, I’ve been here since release 9yrs ago, and my skill level is not at all respected when I play.
You can be good at the game, spend money on the cards, play 1000 duels, and still have 0 fun because the AI running this game rigs duels against you.
Isn’t that point though? To have fun? Konami only cares about numbers and dollar signs, that word is meaningless to them.
You can be good at the game, spend money on the cards, play 1000 duels, and still have 0 fun because the AI running this game rigs duels against you.
Isn’t that point though? To have fun? Konami only cares about numbers and dollar signs, that word is meaningless to them.
Game CRASHES
After iOS 26 update the game keeps freezing all the time! I have seen other players having the same issue! It’s been over a month now!
game always crashes
game always crashes for no reason.
Crashes
App crashes constantly. They refuse to fix it.
Unplayable
Game crashes often
Too expensive and buggy
This game is too expensive to even try to put together a decent deck. You’re looking at upwards of 100$ and that’s being generous or just mindless and mind numbing auto dueling for a couple measly gems here and there. There is no card crafting at all, they give out tickets but they can’t be used for half of any of the decent cards. Just super grindy, expensive and over all not fun. On top of all of that the app is constantly crashing even on newer phones, I lost count of how many duels I had to shut down the entire app and more than once it locked up my entire phone.
Bugs
It will literally freeze out of nowhere. I’m not sure if an update is needed but …. Yeah
Strongly Recommend Not Playing
If you haven’t played yugioh in years or are a fan of the anime, I don’t recommend this game. It’s pve has no challenge to it, and between skills and unbalanced cards, pvp is an awful experience.
Too many major bugs
The card effects don’t even work properly and on IOS the game keeps crashing therefore I can’t win any of my duels, it has been like this for months and there has been no fixes.
Game crashes
I love duel links but since the last update the game crashes and Konami can't find a solution for some players we can't play anymore
Recent glitches gone unfixed
Have been playing since 2017 and have loved the game but there’s a recent glitch that has gone unsolved for the past couple weeks, where the game freezes and when you re-load you learn you’ve lost the duel. It happens every 4-5 duels or so. Pretty frustrating when trying to get KoG ranking for the month. Not sure why it hasn’t been fixed yet and there’s no way to report the glitch in-game so I am leaving a review in hopes they notice. I use iOS 26.2.
Game crashes a lot
The game is crashes a lot so you have to restart constantly
Crash city
Game freezes constantly during battles requiring full reboot of app. Sometimes even crashes iPhone completely.
Freezes
Used to be able to play this tried reddit and all and no solution game always crashes now please fix this
problem
my game have problems is freezing I can’t play correctly please
Pay to play
First let me start by saying this game will freeze and crash your phone unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Brand new iPhone 17 pro max freezing for over a min with no way to un-freeze or fix, you just have to wait it out until you can control your phone again. I would advise not downloading this game JUST based off that but I’ll now get into the gameplay.
Game is fun at first if you like the show, but the draw hands are 100% rigged. The game will purposely start to deal you bad hands in the higher/better loot drop matches. And when I say bad hand I mean not one playable card while your opponent has 2-3 blue eye white dragons on the field second turn. They do this to encourage you to spend REAL money and pay for more cards to improve your deck. I don't spend money on mobile games so I actually grinded 10k gems with a bad deck, which took FOREVER so I can finally build my deck!
Well.. you only have 2 super over priced options spend 50 gems for 1 pack of 4 cards or 1k for 10 packs of 4. No other options, I bought over 80 packs and never pulled the rare card I needed to complete the deck. That's just them encouraging you to spend MORE money.
Don't even get me started on PvP casual or ranked. Just don't even do it. They all paid top dollar for their decks and it's not even close to being fair if you didn't pay the same as them. This is a pay to win game. You will not win, if you do not pay. Plain and simple.
Deleting the app
Game is fun at first if you like the show, but the draw hands are 100% rigged. The game will purposely start to deal you bad hands in the higher/better loot drop matches. And when I say bad hand I mean not one playable card while your opponent has 2-3 blue eye white dragons on the field second turn. They do this to encourage you to spend REAL money and pay for more cards to improve your deck. I don't spend money on mobile games so I actually grinded 10k gems with a bad deck, which took FOREVER so I can finally build my deck!
Well.. you only have 2 super over priced options spend 50 gems for 1 pack of 4 cards or 1k for 10 packs of 4. No other options, I bought over 80 packs and never pulled the rare card I needed to complete the deck. That's just them encouraging you to spend MORE money.
Don't even get me started on PvP casual or ranked. Just don't even do it. They all paid top dollar for their decks and it's not even close to being fair if you didn't pay the same as them. This is a pay to win game. You will not win, if you do not pay. Plain and simple.
Deleting the app
It will cheat u
This game will cheat u right in your face 💯💯💯
Lose in two turns
After years of updates this game just isn’t fun anymore. If you don’t spend money, you’ll simply lose in two turns.
苹果为什么老是卡死？
我苹果15pro max经常玩着玩着突然游戏就卡死了，尤其是今天玩遗产决斗，打了10场卡死6场
Constant crashes for a few weeks
Game crashes almost every duel and has for a couple weeks now. Pretty unplayable on mobile.
Red Eyes Dark Dragon Needs To Be Banned
This card is OP and everyone is using it. That card needs to be banned
Crashes mid duel
The game crashes mid duel constantly leaving a stuttering screen. I’m constantly getting demoted on the rank system because I can’t finish duels anymore
Glitchy
Wont stop freezing.
Glitches
Man i am tired of this game constantly glitching and freezing especially when im in the middle of a ranked duel you have updated this game and still it freezes fix your game this has been going on for a while duels that i shouldnt have lost but ive had to close the app because the game just freezes its annoying
Unplayable
I love this game! Until this year it has had almost not issues, now it’s unplayable. 👎
Add auto battle for PvP
Add auto battle for PvP. I don't know what all them words and phrases mean or how all that summoning stuff works.
Dragoon
Game is busted, and the fun is sapped. Terrible addition to the game for classic players.
Predatory
If you wanna play against actual people, the only cards worth having are locked behind rng. It’s time to d-d-d-d-d-donate money to support corporate greed
Too pay 2 win
Y’all need to chill this game is EXTREMELY P2W I don’t mind spending a little money on a game here and there but damn are y’all kidding??? Y’all need to chill
+ 7 more in the clipboard copy
Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
5%
Negative (1-2★)