While other companies are using Pot of Greed every turn, Konami is surprisingly lenient on the microtransactions in this free-to-play game. They instead made a game that is so good all my free time has fallen into a Dark Dimension Trap Hole. There are microtransactions but other than one Card Rotator banner image and an ocassional Drill Bug in the daily updates, they don't really Mirror Force them down your throat or encourage them that much. This is a welcome change of pace from most f2p games I've played.

The gameplay is what you'd expect from a Yu-Gi-Oh card game; you play against CPU opponents or can go online to challenge other players. I haven't done the multiplayer yet so my experience has been on the solo end of things. I spend a lot of time building decks and trying them out. This, to me, is where most of my enjoyment of card games comes from. There are multiple ways to get new cards for deck building. You can earn them from challenges, buy them from the in-game store with gems you earn from completing challenges/duels, or use the Card Trader who recycles his inventory every so often.

Also, as expected, you can buy packs with real money, but you don't have to do this if you don't want to. As I've said, there's plenty of other ways to earn in-game currency. I can accept this since it's a free-to-play game. Microtransactions have no place in anything except free-to-play games. Though personally I could do without them entirely but your mileage may vary.

Another great thing is you can unlock Téa Gardner really early. She's always so nice to everyone when she duels. What a great person. So full of energy and optimism. Best character is best.

So overall my final verdict is that this is a fantastic game that you can get hours of enjoyment with for free. Highly recommended.

EDIT on 11/23/2023 : Quick update to this review. Since I first played the game, I have over 2000 hours in it now and finally got all the achievements. Patience is a virtue with these kinds of games. No need to spend a lot of money just to build a good deck. Especially now with the new Wild Spirit Deck Build box. It's super free-to-play, only 50 packs in the box and if you go through the box a couple times, you'll have enough cards to build decks in three different archetypes: Lunalight, Bujins and Fire Fist. If you haven't played for a while, now is probably a good time to come back to the game. They also added a Rush Duel world for SevenS. It's a different card pool with different rules. It's pretty neat. I still highly recommend the game. Especially for fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh anime.