Elestrals Clash!

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Elestrals Clash! is a single player and multiplayer action game with a fantasy theme. It was developed by Elestrals and was released on July 29, 2025. It received neutral reviews from players.

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51%

Audience ScoreBased on 212 reviews

gameplay17 positive mentions

stability17 negative mentions

All cards are available for free from the start, with monetization limited to cosmetics only, making it a very generous model for TCG players.
The core gameplay is fun, strategic, and innovative with interesting resource management and unique mechanics blending elements similar to Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon, and Magic: The Gathering.
The developers are active, passionate, and responsive, frequently updating the game and continuously improving the client during early access.

The tutorial is severely lacking, confusing, and buggy with frequent softlocks, making the game very unwelcoming to new players and hindering the learning experience.
The user interface is clunky, unintuitive, and poorly optimized, leading to frustrating gameplay due to difficult navigation, unclear card effects, slow responsiveness, and inadequate visual feedback.
The game is still in early access with many bugs, missing cards, slow gameplay pacing, forced matchmaking after tutorial, and awkward mechanics that reduce overall polish and accessibility.

gameplay
62 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay of Elestrals Clash offers a unique and strategic card game experience with all cards available for free and cosmetic-only monetization, appealing especially to experienced players familiar with similar TCG mechanics. However, it suffers from a clunky, slow, and buggy UI, a poorly explained and incomplete tutorial, and occasional gameplay bugs that hamper accessibility and flow. Despite these early access rough edges, many find the core mechanics fun and engaging once learned, though new players often struggle initially due to the lack of clear guidance.
- “Great card game with fun and unique mechanics.”
- “Gameplay is smooth and by far the most important thing is that all cards are available for free.”
- “There is several ways to interact and play around cards all focused on which spirits you use... really makes you feel smart by fully utilizing the mechanics it has to offer.”
- “The tutorial is severely lacking, not describing a lot of key phrases or mechanics to new players.”
- “Gameplay is painfully slow.”
- “Tl;dr: pretty terrible implementation - feels like it was made for touch devices and there are loads of unnecessary prompts and animations dragging out a match, mechanics need a lot of work, give this one a pass.”
stability
17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game is plagued by numerous bugs and stability issues, particularly during the tutorial, which often freezes or fails to progress, severely impacting playability. The UI is clunky and buggy, causing frustration with turn timers and gameplay mechanics. Despite these problems, players appreciate the game's potential and hope for improvements.
- “It's in such a broken, buggy state which is so upsetting for something that looked like it'd be so fun.”
- “The in-game tutorial is buggy and does not teach you the game; a lot of the UI is missing polish and very clunky, causing players to make mistakes because of it.”
- “Turn timers cut you off: even being a veteran player, the clunky way that you activate and target effects combined with the buggy client and poor alerts for low time often cut off turns prematurely, leading to frustrated surrenders.”
graphics
12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics mimic and improve upon those of Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel but feel somewhat sloppy and unpolished, especially in visual effects and menu design, which is cluttered and overwhelming. The art style, reminiscent of Gen 5 Pokémon cards, is neat and functional but may not appeal to everyone, while the overall visuals and gameplay run smoothly despite some bugs.
- “The gameplay and graphics are super smooth, and the tutorial is so easy to follow.”
- “Some bugs have ended games for me but the visuals and the gameplay and the fact you get every card for free is too good to pass up.”
- “The art style is neat, reminds me of the gen 5 Pokemon cards.”
- “The menus have this horrible over-designed Web3 NFT crypto-adjacent aesthetic. There are so many popups and tiny graphics and freemium resources shoved into your face at all times, making it feel cluttered and aimless.”
- “The release has a full graphical setting that mimics and improves on the graphics from Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, but the release overall feels sloppy.”
- “Its visuals are very unpolished (VFX), needing more refinement, though every card works and mechanics are simple and fun to play.”
monetization
9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's monetization is praised for being fair and focused solely on cosmetic items, with all gameplay cards available for free. This approach is seen as refreshing and non-predatory, encouraging engagement without pressuring in-app purchases. However, some feel the client and animations need improvement despite the solid monetization model.
- “Monetization model focused only on cosmetics is refreshing.”
- “And I really love how all the cards are free and the monetization is just alt arts and stuff like that.”
- “It's a good card game and a very neat monetization model, but the client still needs work.”
- “Setting the predatory mobile monetization aside, this is an amateur mobile project, not a PC game.”
- “But this is what they saw worthy of a public release with full monetization.”
- “This will make me engaged with the game, and drive me towards in-app purchases.”
music
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music in the game features a pleasant store credit song, but its default volume is excessively loud, making it difficult to hear others during multiplayer calls. Additionally, the music can abruptly cut out after relaunching the game, impacting the overall audio experience.
- “The song that plays in the store credit is really nice, credit to the composer.”
- “The music volume is too loud by default, which can be overwhelming.”
- “During the unskippable tutorial, the music was so loud it drowned out my friends on a call, forcing me to leave the game to mute it.”
- “The music volume is set too loud by default.”
- “I assumed the music volume would be at a normal, generic level, but it drowned out my friends I was on a call with during a non-skippable tutorial, forcing me to leave the game just to mute it.”
- “The music cut out completely, so I had nothing to listen to and had to relaunch the game to try again.”
humor
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The humor in the game received mixed reactions, with some players finding certain elements, like the funny attack and defense symbols, more annoying than amusing. Additionally, some users noted that negative reviews themselves were sometimes unintentionally humorous.
optimization
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Optimization is generally smooth during gameplay, but the tutorial is notably poorly optimized, resulting in slow pacing and a frustrating experience.
grinding
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game offers a positive experience with minimal grinding, as players can obtain all cards for free, allowing them to experiment with different decks without repetitive gameplay.