Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 06:31 am
Yomi – Card Game Review
Yomi is a Card game from Sirlin Games, first launched in 17th April 2014.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 18+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Yomi Stand Out
Dice Tower's Game of the Year, Tom Vasel, 2010
Yomi is a fighting game in card form. Learn your character, practice combos, and read the opponent's tendencies. 10 characters to choose from, plus 10 more expansion characters available inside the app.
Yomi captures the mindgames from fighting games such as Street Fighter, and was created by the lead designer of Street Fighter HD Remix, who was also a long-time fighting game tournament player. Yomi itself is a strategy card game that has held up to many years of tournaments. Start practicing now!
• 10 character decks (10 more expansion also available)
• AI opponents, including a pretty difficult AI
• Survival Mode to play many AI opponents in a row
• Tutorial to get you started
• Online play, cross-platform with the web version at www.fantasystrike.com
• Online leaderboards: start in the Student ranks and work up to Master ranks
• Save replays of your games and watch replays from any other player, including top leaderboard players
From the makers of Puzzle Strike, Flash Duel, and Pandante.
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This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Yomi is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th September 2024
Recent improvements include:
Updated Yomi to work on the newest iOS versions.
Download & Availability
Yomi is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Keep updating the app dudes! Its awesome as its ever been.
Come join us at sirlingames.com. There is almost always a tournament going there.
We really enjoy Yomi, so playing it on the go is quite nice! It's awesome how people using the app version and others using Steam version can interact! More people should give this game a chance! If ye enjoyed the mindgames of Street Fighter or other fighting games in the past, and don't mind card games, this is something ye should really check out.
Awesome game, well worth the purchase. If you are on the fence, go online and give it a try for free.
Very solid tactical gameplay. Can you please remove the weird scan lines in the tutorial.
Great game but devs no longer support this and online lobby is ghost town. Amazing game, but prob best played local.
Somehow slow and no updates five years,dont buy.
Great card fighting strategy game.
Yomi is an exceptional "fighting game in card game form." It is a game of mastery and mind games. What initially looks like paper, rock, scissors with cards is cleverly a game rich with character/deck strategies, valuation decisions, and yes–reading your opponent. And like most great competitive games, there is a strategic opening, middle game, and endgame in Yomi. Yomi is the game we play the most on iOS. Practicing vs the AI is a very fun, "when we find a little time," activity. The online play is cross-platform as you can play against players from iOS, Steam, and web browsers. As of version 1.13 the game is running perfectly on our iPad Air 2 and iPhone 5S, both running iOS 8.4. Yes, it looks great and is playable on the 5S screen. Skills rewarded: Hand management (building your big win condition and maintaining a good hand of cards) Valuation (understanding the strength of your options, what is usable/inefficient/tradeable/too good) Reading or Evaluating Your Opponent (understanding the soundness of their plays, deducing their likely hand, observing their risk/reward preference and influencers) Strategic knowledge and experience. Learning the game. If you want to quickly improve in this game, we recommend going to fantasystrike.com Yomi captures the forced mixup situations in many fighting games as well as the rhythm of more old school fighters like Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, and King of Fighters. The hand management is almost like Super Meter management in such games too as you build your big winning strike and try to time that big strike against your opponent. This game is very skill rewarding and worthy of mastering, even if only one character :).
We have been searching for a deep game we could really dive into and learn, and Yomi is more than a perfect fit. It is super fun learning the different characters, and it totally feels like a 2D fighter in board game form. We anticipate playing this for a long time, and hope for lots of people to meet up with online.
It's worth the ten bucks buying the game.
Great game but we think the latest patch is causing problems; our cards are showing up with the wrong artwork on them.
Yomi is a card game by David Sirlin. He specializes in creating games with asymmetrical balance. His games are all set in the same world where battle games (and games about the battle games) are the norm. Yomi has a different deck of cards for each character. The characters all have individual abilities. The basis of the game is a rock/paper/scissors mechanic of Attack/Throw/Block-Dodge. The cards are set against a standard deck of playing cards with numbered cards 2-10, the face cards, aces, and Jokers. Most of the cards have two different actions depending on which end of the card is at the top. So, a card may have an Attack action on one end and a Dodge Action on the other. The two players in the game play their combat cards facedown and are revealed simultaneously. Each character, in addition to having some innate abilities, also has different abilities on some of the cards in addition to the normal combat actions of the cards. It's a fighting game where you are trying to reduce your opponent to a K.O. The crux of Yomi is making your best guess of what type of card your opponent is going to play each turn in the hopes of playing one that will beat it. The base game has 10 different characters, and there is an in-app purchase option for 10 additional characters. There are also higher powered versions of each character which can be purchased or unlocked through gameplay. Since the game is primarily about understanding your opponent's play style, playing online against other players is the standard game. You can also play matches against an easy or challenging AI to practice and to unlock the more powerful EX versions of the characters.
Sirlin knows games. Sirlin knows balance. His iteration has crafted one of the finest card games on the market, with an amazing, original theme. "Yomi", or "reading", takes the age old game of Rock-Paper-Scissors and turns it into a riveting rendition of a 2D fighting game, without needing dexterity or substantial memorization. The app is a smooth and gorgeous translation of the card game. Highly recommended. Well worth the app price.
Pricey for an IOS game, but cheaper than the physical version and we play it way more than console games we spend $50-60 on. Great community, excellent well balanced characters with great themes… We could go on, but buy it.
Perfect card game. Takes the core of what makes trading card games fun, minus the wallet draining "trading" part. Worth your time for the modest one-time fee.
This has all the hallmarks of a great game: easy to learn, difficult to master. On the surface it looks like it's some kind of Rock, Paper, Scissors game, but play it for a few hours and learn that it is such a deep game. How else can the best players rack up 80% win rates? If you like well designed games, put some time in to learn this great design.
This game made a fan out of us. Coming from a hearthstone addict.
Yeah, awesome! Buy the actual cards as well, they are even more fun.
Sf4 player here. We love this take on it Really brilliant.
The game is great, but occasionally the login screen loses our user info or we cant continue a match because we cant tap pass. The game is still good enough to buy the hardcopy version, because the mechanics are very tight and the flow is great.
The game is solid, but either no one is on or there is a bug from hell on iOS. 9.99 is a lot of cheddar for an iOS game. It's too bad the multiplayer is a desert. Save your money, until this is fixed. We will update if that's the case.
How this game is not one of the most popular games on iOS is mystifying. You get 10 decks for the ten dollars the game costs. That gives you a nice variety of characters and infinite replay-ability. The actual game play is fast, unique and very satisfying to play. A win feels like a win and not dumb luck. Go to YouTube and watch the video by Tom Vassel reviewing the game. That is what convinced us to make the purchase and we can't tell you how happy we are that we did. As soon as we are more comfortable with basic set of characters we will be buying the expansion set with ten additional characters / decks. Do yourself a favor and buy a ten dollar game you will still enjoy long after you have kicked ten one dollar games to the curb.
Yomi is a phenomenal card game of strategy and tactics. Hand management, reading your opponent, and playing a bit of poker make this game unique and interesting. Similar to an arcade fighter, you will need to predict your opponent's next move, counter, and execute large combos to win. This is tense, exciting, and most importantly fun. The app for Yomi has a host of features and game modes from replays to online matches to statistics. There are 20 decks to dive into, which if you were to purchase the physical version would cost upwards of $200! This digital version may be more costly than other apps on the marketplace, but you will be hard-pressed to find a game that is as well-balanced and full of content as Yomi is. At the end of the day, we've sunk countless hours into Yomi in both its physical and digital renditions, and it never ceases to entertain us. We highly recommend this to anyone even remotely interested.
Really great job on this. It's a darn fun game, pretty easy to get, difficult to master and looks great.
Anyone who gets frustrated by people buying their way to victory in CCGs needs to play this. The price of entry gets you every character you need and the balance of this game is without equal: any character has a good chance of beating every character. Yomi is a brilliant simulacrum of fighting games, making the Rock Paper Scissors guessing games into clear strategic choices that are available to everyone.
Really unique game and we love how there is no need for in-app purchases unless u want more characters, complete decks otherwise.
If you are a fan of fighting games and card game, you will definitely enjoy this one. We had the original card game and really enjoyed it! This port to iPad translates really well. The art looks great and the game plays really well online. $9.99 is a fair price point for this one.
Really nice UI and fun to play.
We are the fgc's own CORN AlucarD and we this app is amazing.
You might think the price is kind of high, but this is a highly polished port of an extremely well-designed card game. Imagine Street Fighter successfully turned into a card game, and that's what you have here. Lots of depth and endless challenge awaits. Check out the website demo which let's you take the game on a test run first if you must… If you like it this is more than worth the price.
In a word…NICE! David Sirlin knows how to make a game. For those of you who play Yomi, you will love this. For those of you who don't here's a great place to start. Its user interface is great and makes sense. It has an amazing tutorial (we are a seasoned Yomi tabletop player but wanted to see how they approached it) that covers all the rules and some basic strategy, but leaves you to your own devices to use that knowledge to "pass" the tutorials. In the single player game, you're not stuck with a predicable, dumb opponent. You can choose easy or hard, and both have a decent challenge. You can play online as well and it's cross-platform, so you can play with people on their home computers. Survival mode is done well, too. If we were to ask for one thing, it would be to have a way to just look at the decks and see what each character has to offer. For the price, you can't beat this. For a total of $20 you get all 20 characters and unlimited online play. To put that in perspective you should note that the complete tabletop version is $100, and that's just for the 10 base characters. So to sum it all up, this is an amazing app. It plays well and is fun for seasoned players and is a great place for new players to get started. The easiest 5-star rating we've ever given. Here's to Puzzle Strike making the jump to iOS next.
Super, mechanically-sound dueling game. Interface is quite good. It's basically the same as the browser implementation on Fantasy Strike's website. We think it feels a little better on iPad though. Now we just can't wait to get Puzzle Strike on iPad.
Good game, but the iPad controls are terrible. The onscreen buttons for flipping a card, skipping to the next card, and selecting a card are unpredictable and often perform the wrong function. This is especially frustrating when you mean to flip a card and end up playing it instead. Terrible.
As someone who never played the card game, but has played tons of TCGs, the design of this game comes off as pretty much incomprehensible. Yeah, we could muddle our way through it but what we thought was going to be a series of fun counter attacks turned out to be a frustrating Rock Paper Scissors guessing game combined with special rules you have to learn for nearly every action, plus poker rules, plus jokers, plus aces are special case, plus each card has unique abilities, plus even vs odd number cards, plus unique character abilities, plus 6 stages for every round, plus… Anyway, the point is it feels like playing a game of calvinball in card game form.
The tutorial is a convoluted mess.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.17
- Size: 573.31 MB
- iOS: 13.0.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Sirlin Games
Last updated: 17th September 2024 | Genre: Card | Developer: Sirlin Games