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Duelyst

Duelyst is a competitive strategy game focused on tactical combat, squad building, and ranked ladder play. Each battle is a 1v1 match between two online opponents. Gameplay in Duelyst is turn-based, with…

82 23 August 2016

Duelyst is a card & board game developed by Counterplay Games Inc., released 23 August 2016 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Duelyst is

Duelyst is a card & board game game developed by Counterplay Games Inc. and released in 2016. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Duelyst is a free and open-source digital collectible card game and turn-based strategy hybrid developed by Counterplay Games, who initially self-published the title but was later published by Bandai Namco. It had been released in an open beta period in 2015, and the full game was released on April 27, 2016. Due to declining player counts, servers for Duelyst were shut down on February 27, 2020.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 10 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Duelyst holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 77% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.5Ghz dual-core Intel Core i5, 4 GB RAM and Open GL 3.1+ Compliant. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Duelyst launched on 23 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Duelyst — frequently asked questions

When did Duelyst come out?
Duelyst was released on 23 August 2016 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Duelyst?
At minimum, Duelyst needs 1.5Ghz dual-core Intel Core i5, 4 GB RAM, Open GL 3.1+ Compliant graphics, 1 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Duelyst?
The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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