Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Worth it · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 46.1h
- Value
- $0.43/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
Become Ichiban Kasuga, a low-ranking yakuza grunt left on the brink of death by the man he trusted most. Take up your legendary bat and get ready to crack some underworld skulls in dynamic RPG combat set against the backdrop of modern-day Japan.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.99, set in October 2025. It has been discounted 44 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ ($7.49, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth ($69.99, scores 67).
Critics scored it 83. Players sit 11 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 640 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (boost, infinite spend); the score docks it lightly for that.
46.1 hours to finish it, 103 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
78% start to 34% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
470 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
100%'d this game. It's very good for a modern spin on the classic JRPG structures, with nearly endless stuff to do. Even the dumbest of minigames are shockingly well though-out, with custom mechanics and levels of depth. The story is good, and often really funny, but sometimes a bit repetitive and melodramatic. Also the game is rather easy overall, but the final endgame challenge, the "True Final Millennium Tower"...
So much fun.. Even with the switch to turn based combat. Only made better by the respect paid to "older" RPGs
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is a masterclass in reinventing a franchise. Switching from real-time brawling to turn-based JRPG combat was a huge risk, but it paid off spectacularly by capturing the quirky, party-based spirit of Dragon Quest. Ichiban Kasuga is an absolute triumph of a main character-endlessly endearing, chaotic, and loyal. Backed by a phenomenal party cast, an emotionally charged story, and a vibrant...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1235140/yakuza-like-a-dragonThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Sep 24.
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