Designer: Konami team | Artist: Various
While it may not have the mainstream fame of Magic: The Gathering or Pokémon, the Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game has been going on strong for 20 years now. Like any collectible game with dozens of card sets and rules additions, it can seem overwhelming to jump in now if you missed the train by a decade or two. Speed Duel, a reboot in some ways and spin-off in others, aims to solve this problem. Based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! mobile app Duel Links, it’s a blazingly quick introduction-level simplification of the game’s extremely pleasing “summon cool monsters, spells and traps to mess up your opponent” battling. And it works a treat.