Like a Dragon: Ishin!
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$39.99Skip
On its price record
$33.44Fair
- Length
- 23.9h
- Value
- $1.67/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 35 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 2 GB or AMD Radeon RX 460, 2 GB, 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
Become the samurai of legend, Sakamoto Ryoma and embark on an epic action adventure story set in a heated historical Japan. Turn the tide of battle with legendary gun and sword combat to change the course of history in search for justice.
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 $9.99. That was August 2026. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 28 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 16 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name ($49.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Evil West ($49.99, scores 28).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 219 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 23.9 hours. Doing everything runs 119, 5.0 times as long.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
95% start to 3% 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
86 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 01:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Overall it is a great game, ive always like every single yakuza so far ( i ve just have judgement,lost judgement , LAD IF, and pirate warrior left to play) but has few issues imho, thats why i think its one of my least favourite yakuza so far. Story wise i would say its generally cool as all the others yakuza games. What i didnt really like was the huge amount of substories from the very beginning of the game. I...
Not 100% sure if I'm correct here but I thought this might be the perfect introduction into the yakuza franchise for me. I heart the games are janky, arcady, lots of humour, well written stories and a healthy portion of ACTION! And boy it's delivering! First of all, I love the atmosphere and the storytelling. I just finished the first act and I'm already hooked by the main characters plot.. The story might not be...
I have to say this game story was really good and the cutscene quality is GOOD but the combat and the grain in that game is super mid. If you trying to get good gear just use cheats or something.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Like a Dragon: Ishin! scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1805480/like-a-dragon-ishinReviews 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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