Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
Fair · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $59.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17.2h
- Value
- $3.49/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650,4GB or AMD Radeon RX 560,4GB or Intel Arc A380,6GB, 56 GB of storage. Windows only.
Embark on an over-the-top, modern-day pirate adventure with an ex-yakuza, now pirate captain & his crew. Engage in exhilarating combat on land and sea in the hunt for lost memories and treasure.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 13 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. 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.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth ($69.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($19.99, scores 1).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 273 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
17.2 hours to finish it, 44 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
86% start to 19% 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
213 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
GOD YES I'd recommend this game. I FEEL bad for the people who haven't played this game because there missing out on the best pirate adventure ever. I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF THIS GAME. PLAY IT NOW!!!
bro the ending got me so hard bro, i am smiling like idiot till i see the epilog, I AM BAWLING MY EYES WTF
A spectacular game that pushes the series in the right direction in so many ways. Basically since getting into the yakuza series I have been chasing the high 0 left me on and honestly like a dragon was the closest the series got for me, but this game is the first to actually reach that. The story is fantastic and has a majima that actually feels like a final mix of the one we had in 0 and the mad dog we've known...
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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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3061810/like-a-dragon-pirate-yakuza-in-hawaiiThe 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 Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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