Yakuza 5
Yakuza 5 is an open-world action-adventure game and the fifth main title in the Yakuza series developed by Sega. For the first time in the series, it features five settings across Japan along with five…
Yakuza 5 is an adventure developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, released 6 December 2012 on PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 21.3 hrs to finish.
What Yakuza 5 is
Yakuza 5 is an adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and released in 2012. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Yakuza 5 is a 2012 action-adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega for the PlayStation 3. It is the fifth main entry in the Yakuza series. The game was released in December 2012 in Japan, and localized for North America, Europe and Australia as a PlayStation Network download in December 2015. A remaster with improved resolution and frame rate was released for the PlayStation 4 on June 20, 2019, in Japan, and worldwide on February 11, 2020, as part of The Yakuza Remastered Collection. Versions for Windows and Xbox One were released in January 2021.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series
Yakuza 5 is the 12th of 91 entries we hold in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series. The next entry was Ryuu ga Gotoku Ishin! Muryou App in 2014. Its critic score of 84 is 2 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Yakuza 0: Director's Cut at 88.
How it was received
Yakuza 5 holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 21.3 hrs.
What it launched against
Yakuza 5 launched on 6 December 2012, within three weeks of Far Cry 3, Game Dev Tycoon, Hitman: Absolution and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Far Cry 3, Game Dev Tycoon, Hitman: Absolution, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Yakuza 5 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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