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It'south not likewise often that a game comes along and smashes all the previous records in its genre. However, that is exactly the feat which Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel has achieved. Since its launch on January 19th, the free-to-play card game has effortlessly become the number one played card game on Steam, with a loftier of 255,207 concurrent players.

For comparison, that number is twice as high as the previous record-holder Prismata and four times the high of Valve-made Antiquity Classic. Even so, neither of those games currently has a very substantial following, and if you're merely taking today's player numbers into account, Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel has anywhere from ten,000 to sixteen,000 times the number of players.

Nevertheless, this game isn't only a massive success compared to card games. Yu-Gi-Oh! has really achieved one of the biggest launches of the past 12 months and is merely about 1000 concurrent players behind Halo Space's peak.

Now, information technology's unlikely that Yu-Gi-Oh! will exist able to maintain these numbers. As stated earlier, its predecessors Prismata and Antiquity Classic have had huge drop-offs from their heyday. However, if the team behind Yu-Gi-Oh! Main Duel tin can maintain a steady flow of content, the gratuitous-to-play game may exist able to keep nearly of its players engaged for a long time to come.