Editing Yu-Gi-Oh (section)

==Simulators==
Since Konami <s>is</s> was primarily a video game company, Yu-Gi-Oh has far more video game versions than any other TCG. Indeed, it's one of the video game franchises with the most released games, clocking in at over 50. These can be simple games with nothing to do but fighting opponents and navigating a menu, repeats of the anime storyline or, more rarely, completely original plots set in the same world as the anime. Unfortunately, these games vary wildly in quality, with many being shit, almost always due to cheating AI and gimmicks that aren't card games. Among the ones considered best are ''Stairway to the Destined Duel'' (OG), ''World Championships 2008'' (GX) and ''Over the Nexus'' (5Ds), which coincidentally were all released near the end of one of the anime series and before the next round of gimmicks were introduced to the card game. ''Over the Nexus'' in particular has a surprisingly high degree of effort put into it, with an original story, customizable avatar, a bunch of side-quests and tons of shit to find. There's also a bunch that play by the anime "rules", many of which were made prior to many of the actual card game's rules being codified.

Unfortunately with Konami's move to focusing on pachinko, they stopped making many games at all, including Yu-Gi-Oh ones, and so we only have Duel Links, which is unfortunately a mobile game and thus a relatively stripped-down experience and (far more pressing) is riddled with microtransactions. Years after this move to pachinko, Konami walked this stance back in September of 2019 in wake of anti-addiction laws that would cripple pachinko stating "high-end console games are the most important" and they were working on "multi-device titles for [...] Yu-Gi-Oh".

There are a few fan-made simulators so if you want to play for free with all the thousands of cards unlocked from the start you can do that. Duelingbook is an browser-based manual simulator, while EDOpro and YGOPRO and downloaded automatic ones. (So it moves the cards for you, if you're too lazy to do that.) There's also YGOPRO2 which is the most flashy one. YGO Omega is currently the favorite of people who have Discord (online play requires it) due to being insanely customizable (you can play all popular duel types, use every set of Master Rules and even mix and match rules from any of them) while still having animated effects.