72
Quality Score
Strong
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links is an iOS app from KONAMI, currently rated 4.7★ across 89,509 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 72: Strong (healthy traction). For an app like this, that means healthy traction. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$700K/mo
In 12 months
$741K – $1141K
In 24 months
$886K – $1645K
BIG tier
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- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$5.8K/mo · 2.3M ratings · 4.4★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦Asset bundle (138 MB) | +$35K |
| ⚙9.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$56K |
Total estimate$140K
👥 Estimated audience size
9.3M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
780K
Daily active
155K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲category engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 📅9.4y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁category D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React NativeFlutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦App bundle size | 138 MB |
| 🏷Category context | category |
| 📦Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-05-14 · 9 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅9 days since last update | Active development |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 60/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.2
Product Quality
9.5
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.3
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.73★ across 89,502 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $12.6M-$22.4M.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (89,509 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 138 MB🔞 9+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v10.8.0🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +5💰 Free🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)
📝 About this app
"Yu-Gi-Oh!" is available on-the-go as a mobile app!
Become the best Duelist in the world!
Anywhere, anytime! Prepare yourself for some sweet Duels!
[ABOUT "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links"]
-Easy to learn rules and simple controls for beginners!
-Don't worry if you are not sure how to use your cards. The game will indicate when you can activate your cards!
-Among 3 million players who have participated in the past World Championships, even Duelists with only 3-6 months of Duel Links experience have also became a champion.
Duel online and aim for the top of "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links"!
[FEATURES]… View full description on the official store →
Become the best Duelist in the world!
Anywhere, anytime! Prepare yourself for some sweet Duels!
[ABOUT "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links"]
-Easy to learn rules and simple controls for beginners!
-Don't worry if you are not sure how to use your cards. The game will indicate when you can activate your cards!
-Among 3 million players who have participated in the past World Championships, even Duelists with only 3-6 months of Duel Links experience have also became a champion.
Duel online and aim for the top of "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links"!
[FEATURES]… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v10.8.0
Preparations for events
Preparations for new features
Bug Fix(es)
Preparations for new features
Bug Fix(es)
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.70261★ | 4,590 | 4.70261★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.58976★ | 9,458 | 4.58976★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.66254★ | 6,540 | 4.66254★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.55912★ | 8,678 | 4.55912★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.51251★ | 7,153 | 4.51251★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.74925★ | 10,066 | 4.74925★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.59708★ | 206 | 4.59708★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.3784★ | 54,488 | 4.3784★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.73432★ | 89,502 | 4.73432★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
- Developer
- KONAMI
- Bundle ID
- jp.konami.yugiohmobile
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Not found
- Content rating
- 9+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- KONAMI GROUP CORPORATION
- Description
- This is the website of KONAMI GROUP CORPORATION, the holding company of Konami Group.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- Not found
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇧🇷#94 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- youtube youtube.com/user/KONAMI573ch
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- konami.com/games/us/en/pages/support
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth89,509 ratings+25% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (4 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇧🇷
BR
Top-grossing rank: #94 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#94 now · best #85 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
6 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow many users does Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links have?▾
Estimated audience: ~9.3M lifetime downloads, ~780K monthly active users, and ~155K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What is Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links built with?▾
Our heuristic places Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links last updated?▾
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links last shipped a new version on 2026-05-14 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links?▾
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links is published by KONAMI on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links's BU Score?▾
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links has a BU Score of 72/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.