Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is a role-playing game developed and published by Sega. Released in 2020, it is the eighth main entry in the Yakuza series. The game introduces a new protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga, and…
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is an adventure developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, released 16 January 2020 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The main story takes about 78.3 hrs to finish.
What Yakuza: Like a Dragon is
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is an adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and released in 2020. 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 Dragon Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ichiban Kasuga, a low-ranking grunt of a low-ranking yakuza family in Tokyo, faces an 18-year prison sentence after taking the fall for a crime he didn't commit. Never losing faith, he loyally serves his time and returns to society to discover that no one is waiting for him on the outside, and his clan has been destroyed by the man he respects most. Ichiban sets out to discover the truth behind his family's betrayal and take his life back, drawing a ragtag group of society’s outcasts to his side: Adachi, a rogue cop, Nanba, a homeless ex-nurse, and Saeko, a hostess on a mission. Together, they are drawn into a conflict brewing beneath the surface in Yokohama and must rise to become the…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 63 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is the 38th of 91 entries we hold in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series. The next entry was The Yakuza Remastered Collection: Day One Edition in 2020. Its critic score of 86 is 4 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Yakuza 0: Director's Cut at 88.
How it was received
Yakuza: Like a Dragon holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 193 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 78.3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 120 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-3470 | AMD FX-8350, 8 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7870, 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 launched against
Yakuza: Like a Dragon launched on 16 January 2020, within three weeks of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Journey to the Savage Planet, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore and Metro Exodus: Sam's Story. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Journey to the Savage Planet, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore, Metro Exodus: Sam's Story.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Yakuza: Like a Dragon yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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