Like a Dragon: Ishin!
Like a Dragon: Ishin! is an action-adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega. Released in February 2023, it is a remake of the 2014 Japan-exclusive Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin! and…
Like a Dragon: Ishin! is an adventure developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, released 21 February 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It currently starts at $9.99 at Steam.
What Like a Dragon: Ishin! is
Like a Dragon: Ishin! is an adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and released in 2023. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Like a Dragon: Ishin brings in familiar faces to tell this epic historical tale. Fans will recognize our protagonist as Kazuma Kiryu from earlier entries in the franchise. In Ishin, Kiryu is cast as Sakamoto Ryoma and brings the rest of his crew along too. Goro Majima and other Yakuza celebrities join Ryoma as friends and foes in this fictional world that trades the flashy streets of Tokyo for the chaotic bustle of 1860s Kyo. These new character dynamics are as thrilling as they are unexpected, with a series of mind-blowing twists and turns in a story only RGG studio can tell.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series
Like a Dragon: Ishin! is the 63rd of 91 entries we hold in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series. The next entry was Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Special Trial Version in 2023. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Yakuza 0: Director's Cut at 88.
How it was received
Like a Dragon: Ishin! holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
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
Like a Dragon: Ishin! launched on 21 February 2023, within three weeks of Hogwarts Legacy, Atomic Heart, Metroid Prime Remastered and Octopath Traveler II. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Hogwarts Legacy, Atomic Heart, Metroid Prime Remastered, Octopath Traveler II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Like a Dragon: Ishin! yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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