Judgment
Judgment is an action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective. The game is a legal thriller set in the Yakuza world of Kamurocho and follows private detective Takayuki Yagami as he investigates a…
Judgment is an adventure developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, released 13 December 2018 on PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $9.99 at Steam. The main story takes about 30.5 hrs to finish.
What Judgment is
Judgment is an adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and released in 2018. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 4 only. It runs on Dragon Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A lawyer pulls off a miracle, only to have the verdict cost him everything. Now, as a string of murders casts a shroud over the city and the law begins to fail, justice cannot afford to be blind. The son of a murdered lawyer, Takayuki Yagami was raised on the streets of Kamurocho by a yakuza patriarch who paves the way for Yagami to follow in his real father's footsteps. Taking a job at the Genda Law Office, Yagami accepts a high-profile case: Proving Shinpei Okubo, a man suspected of murder, innocent. Against all odds, Yagami succeeds and is hailed as a hero, but his prolific career is short-lived. Only months later, Okubo brutally murders his girlfriend, stabbing her over ten times with a…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 47 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series
Judgment is the 34th of 91 entries we hold in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series. The next entry was Yakuza 4 Remastered in 2019. Its critic score of 83 is almost exactly the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Yakuza 0: Director's Cut at 88.
How it was received
Judgment holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 106 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 30.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 72 hrs, roughly 2.4 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $9.99, that works out to about $0.33 per hour of the main story, or $0.14 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-3470, 3.2 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1200, 3.1 GHz, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 2 GB or AMD Radeon RX 460, 2 GB. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 40GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $9.99 at Steam, 75% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Judgment launched on 13 December 2018, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Dusk and Ashen. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Dusk, Ashen.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Judgment yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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