The game stands strong with :
- Its campaign following the events of the series
- Its impressive amount of CPU decks to fight against
- A chill environment for casuals who want to experience Yu-Gi-Oh! deckbuilding with the early-2020 cardbase against decent and varied CPU rather than real players who will shove the meta down your throat
Though, unless this is all you need, I wouldn't really recomend it.
Considering the multiplayer is dead, LotD is a good Yu-Gi-Oh! simulator (plays slower than Duel Links and probably Master Duel), but the "video game" around it is arguably poorly designed.
Most importantly, there is little to no incentive to play seriously, so it's up to you to set your own goals :
[h2]Poor incentivization[/h2]
1. The main way of obtaining cards is to buy boosters with Duel Points, which you earn the fastest [b]by surrendering[/b]. This earns you about 50% of the win reward regardless. Thus, you're encouraged to spend your time forfeiting instead of actually playing your duels, until you find all the cards you need for your first decent deck.
2. Boosters can drop a card [b]even if you already own the max amount[/b], and excess cards vanish out in thin air. If you own most of an edition, expect earning one "real" card every ~3 boosters, although the game is rather generous in "forfeit dough" and I feel like there's a small rate up for cards that didn't already reach max amount.
3. No card feels more "precious" than any other. You can find every single card in boosters, and even though there're seemingly rare cards (only 1 per booster), this is a hidden value. No "exclusive" cards that you can only get by doing X. No displayed rarity. No shiny effects. Not even the total amount of copies you pulled of a single card. Thus, I don't feel really attached to any of my cards, besides the last one I missed to complete my deck.
4. Besides story and completionism, progressing in the campaign unlocks fights where you can loot specific cards, which will drop [b]only[/b] if you don't already own the max amount (they also drop by forfeit-farming), which means you can earn every card in the reward pool of a single duel relatively easily. This is a decent incentive for once, instead of praying for booster RNG.
5. Once you have a good deck, there's no real incentive to use a different one, as there's no reason to beat the same stage multiple times, and I believe you can beat the entirety of the CPU duels with the first good deck you'll assemble by instant-rematching until you get a good start.
6. There is a draft mode, a welcome option to play out of your comfort zone. The entry costs the equivalent of 2 minutes of forfeit-farming.
Basically, you build a deck from boosters of an extension, and play 5 matches. If you lose 3, you're out and all the cards in your drafted deck are yours. If you win all 5... well same, but the end screen will show that you won 5 duels instead.
This is most likely an incomplete feature.
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In short, if you want a Yu-Gi-Oh! game that incentivizes you to keep playing with meaningful progression (besides anime storyline), you might not like this one.
