Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel is Out Now

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There have been many factors helping keep the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game relevant in the last 26 years. From anime such as Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, constant releases with new monsters and archetypes that aim to change the game up each set, as well as different formats for the game's many players. Throughout the years, the one thing Yu-Gi-Oh! has lacked is a proper digital card game simulator for itself, but that has changed with the release of Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel.

Ever since the advent of PC games was on the rise, there has been a demand for tabletop games such as Monopoly or even Dungeons and Dragons to be made into an easier, digitalized version where the rules of the game were processed automatically by a computer. Card games had followed suit for ages, such as Pokemon and even digital-only card games like Hearthstone have come out of the demand. Yu-Gi-Oh! released a few similar titles, but all of them acted more like video game adaptions rather than a proper digital version.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel upon being announced back in July has always aimed to finally fill that niche in Yu-Gi-Oh!'s portfolio. The game has already been announced to feature at future World Championships events, as well as that it would feature a hefty story mode that focuses on YGO card lore rather than the story from the franchise's many anime seasons and spin-offs. And now, to the surprise of fans, it has been released suddenly onto all platforms without any prior announcement.

The game, much like Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, is free to play and uses gems as a currency for an in-game shop. Players can use in-game purchases to fill up on gems with real-world currency, or simply complete in-game