Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
Worth it · Action · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $15.08.
- Length
- 18.2h
- Value
- $1.10/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
Step into Japan's criminal underworld in this explosive action brawler starring legendary yakuza, Kazuma Kiryu, who is hellbent on unraveling the truth around his daughter's tragic accident.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was March 2023. It has been discounted 34 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. It becomes a BANGER at $15.08, a level the record has reached 33 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games closest to it, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name ($49.99, scores 60) and Like a Dragon: Ishin! ($39.99, scores 48) both come in lower.
None of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 250 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 18.2 hours. Doing everything runs 55, 3.0 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
86% start to 7% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
83 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 18:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Old game, same old Kiryu, and somehow still ridiculously fun. Great story, peak Yakuza nonsense, hilarious side quests, and street fights that feel more like stress relief than actual combat. Probably the easiest Yakuza I've played, but watching Kiryu turn every thug into a walking punching bag never gets old.
An unsung underdog of a bloated franchise, one of the bests of the bunch. Overshadowed by the previously released Yakuza 0... Perhaps rightfully so, but this game possesses its own strengths including a killer new engine that in my opinion enhanced the fights ten fold. There is something to be said for its faults, the lack of different fighting styles is a stand out. But kicking someone through a store window and...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1388590/yakuza-6-the-song-of-lifeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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