Counterplay announced in January 2020 that due to declining player counts, the online servers for "Duelyst" will be shut down on February 27, 2020 at 3PM PST, and the game will become unplayable after that. The game was well received and holds a rating of 82/100 on reviews aggregation website Metacritic, based on 14 reviews. Tom Marks, writing in "PC Gamer", described "Duelyst" as his favourite card game after "" and awarded the game 84% in his review. Matt Cox, in his review for "Rock, Paper, Shotgun", praised "Duelyst" in comparison to its competitors, adding that the game "does so much more by slapping on a whole other game to the tried and tested CCG formula".