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YGO Nova

Break boards, rewind mistakes, master your combos.

The modern Yu-Gi-Oh! sandbox — every card, full engine, zero setup. Build and test decks, break real meta boards, and duel online or against a real AI.

The only Yu-Gi-Oh! sim with a real undo button.
Beat the meta before you face it — break preset boss boards with a defending AI.
Your format, your rules — make a custom banlist and the deck builder enforces it.
Rewind any replay, slow it down, and spot the exact turn you lost it.
· Why duelists love it

Headline Features

Rewindable Testing Mode

A chess-style move timeline — step back and forward through a duel and the entire game state rebuilds deterministically: deck order, once-per-turn flags, chains and all. Practise a combo, undo, and try the line again instantly.

Board-Break Puzzles vs. Real Meta Boards

Go second against pre-built modern boss boards — Lunalight, Branded, Swordsoul, Mitsurugi — with a defensive AI that fires the board's disruptions on your turn. Learn how to actually break through, not just goldfish.

Live Chain Stack Visualizer

See the chain build as numbered links, then watch it resolve top-down in real time — spent links dim and strike out, the active link pulses. Finally understand what's happening in a long chain.

A Real Offline AI Opponent

Not a passive dummy — a heuristic AI that summons, sets, tributes, targets, and responds with triggers, at a readable one-action-at-a-time pace.

Smart Deck Builder

Everything a tournament grinder needs to go from idea to sleeved list — in one screen.

  • Drag cards straight from search into your deck
  • Auto-detects your deck's archetype from real card data (generic staples excluded)
  • Search by effect text ("find every card that banishes"), attribute, and level
  • Custom banlist / format editor — make your own list and validate against it
  • Sample-hand / mulligan tester with starter analysis
  • ydke:// import & export, favorites, one-click Tidy, and signature "boss card" art

Built to just work

  • No setup headaches — the runtime is bundled; it runs on a clean PC out of the box
  • Tiny installer — full card database included; art streams on demand
  • Auto-update — get new versions from inside the app
  • Full card pool powered by the real EDOPro/ocgcore engine — accurate rulings

Play your way

  • Online through a relay (no port-forwarding), plus LAN
  • Best-of-3 matches with real between-game side decking
  • Emotes & rematch to keep online games lively
  • Replays with rewind, seek, and 0.5×–4× speed
  • Stats dashboard — win rate by deck, going first vs. second, streaks, average turns

Made for everyone

  • UI scale, colorblind-safe cues, frame cap, and fully rebindable keys
  • Independent master / SFX / music volume with looping background music
  • Cinematic dark theme with a proper intro sequence

How to get started

  • ① Download the installer for Windows.
  • ② Run the installer and follow the steps.
  • ③ Open YGO Nova, build your deck, and start duelling.
Download YGO Nova
Third-party software distributed via GitHub and recommended by Dark Side. Download at your own discretion and always verify the source before running any installer.
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