I believe that LotD: LE is the best way of playing Yu-gi-oh! by yourself or with friends on Steam.
Master Duel is cool and all if you want to be competitive but friendly games and silly showdowns are what Link Evolution do best.

If there were a way to disable the ban list in this game without mods it would be the perfect game.

This game REALLY struggles to shuffle your deck. You will get the same handful of cards each new duel and the only way to affect the shuffle is to remove cards from your deck. The Game Boy Advance games did not have this bad of a shuffling problem. The Campaign AI is poor and can only win when it cheats. Campaign difficulty scaling is only how stacked the AI deck is.

THIS IS A TERRIBLE YUGIOH GAME! You can't even cancel a play. Timing is either manual which you can never interrupt the COMP or automatic and the UI asks you if you want to activate Dust Tornado every standby, battle, battle phase, end of battle phase, end of turn phase, for every gosh dang chain link possibility ever! OMG. Then even in story mode, using the story decks, they use modern rules. I can't draw first turn when I'm using Yugi's deck against Kaiba! They don't even let you choose which year/ruleset you wanna play by! Not only that, but it's so dumb - I activate my spell Mystical Space Typhoon, and I press activate, but I gotta set it in 1 of 5 locations. I have to double click! IT GETS ANNOYING AFTER A LOT DUELS AND A LOT OF CARD EFFECT ACTIVATIONS!!! I hate this game. Go play a DS yugioh game emulated on your phone or something. Touch screens and summoning things, and reasonable "do you want to activate this card" notifications UI exist better there! I do not play modern yugioh. DO NOT GET THIS GAME even if it's on sale, which is when i bought it.