Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Developer RGG Studio
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is a 2024 role-playing video game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega. The ninth main installment in the Like a Dragon series, Infinite Wealth centers around Ichiban Kasuga, the protagonist of Yakuza: Like a Dragon (2020), and Kazuma Kiryu, the previous main protagonist of the series, as both of them are trying to find Kasuga's mother in Hawaii. It is the first game… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
478 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
83
LovedLoved
253 positive · 53 negative
95% range 78–87%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 253 | 53 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 48 | 2 | 104 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
9,517 of 10,420 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
83% recommend · 217 yes, 46 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 263 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (21,912 of 24,213 positive).
Players praise the improved turn-based combat and gameplay, calling it some of the best in the genre. [1][2][3] Many find the story messy or a downgrade from the predecessor, with a dragged-out plot and weak antagonists. [4][5][6] Some reviewers criticize the DLC practices, especially hiding New Game+ and jobs behind extra purchases. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [6]
Infinite Wealth starts out with great gameplay that by the end becomes exhausting and absurdly boring, the story has an interesting premise that completely drops in writing quality halfway through the game and just keeps getting worse the more you play. The antagonists in Infinite Wealth are by far the worst in the entire franchise.
- [1]
Really wish those people who "hate turn based rpgs" but like e33 would give Like a Dragon a go. Maybe the best turn based combat I've ever played. That mixed with a wild story with fun and fully fleshed out side quests and mini games.
- [13]
The Infinite Wealth was the friends we made along the way. <3 Given what I've read online, I didn't expect to come out of Infinite Wealth loving it as much as I did. At the very least, I didn't expect to like it more than Like a Dragon. In short: + An amazing ensemble of characters, both old and new, that I've come to root for. Dethroned Persona 4 Golden/Revival in that aspect for me. And I say that lovingly, …
- [18]
It's a good game, with nice combat mechanics and side activities. If you loved the first game, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, you cannot miss this one. But unfortunately it does not shine or has the same impact, due several design decisions that affected negatively the experience: The combat is better, but the game overall is a bit TOO easy. There is almost no challenge in the fights, unfortunately, which is discouraging to …
- [2]
Best turn based combat I ever played. Way better than 7. Story is kinda mid but the Kiryu part goes pretty hard. It's a very good game overall.
Summarised from 34 of the 376 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth sits at 83% positive across 306 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth received "generally favorable reviews" from critics for the PC and PS5 versions, while the Xbox Series X/S version received "universal acclaim", according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Eric Van Allen for Destructoid praised the game for the range of activities on offer, and the character-focused story, although felt that while they like much of the game, "some portions feel way more fleshed out, and others feel like they drag the median down." Michael Higham for GameSpot praised the game for handling heavy tones, but felt it lost focus over the course of the narrative. Writing for IGN, Tristan Ogilvie praised the improvements to the combat system,…
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Reactions
60 of 478 · most liked firsti got to star in a LIVE-ACTION SEGA COMMERCIAL for one of my favorite video game series YAKUZA/LIKE A DRAGON, getting to wear these costumes was so surreal, you can watch the commercial here @sega-west.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ddV...
positive · AI labelView post →Can't stop thinking about this standee of Bruno Mars that looks like he's a guest character on the next Like A Dragon game.
neutral · AI labelView post →In Japan the Yakuza games are called Like a Dragon, but the 7th Yakuza game is called Yakuza: Like a Dragon in the west, but after that they stopped calling them Yakuza in the west and started calling them Like a Dragon, but the latest Like a Dragon game is called Pirate Yakuza.
neutral · AI labelView post →My Dame Da New Game that was just Like A Dragon is getting cancelled for costing Infinite Wealth
neutral · AI labelView post →Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii will have a free New Game+ mode in a post-release patch
neutral · AI labelView post →The PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for October includes: 🌫️ Silent Hill 2 ⏳ Until Dawn 🧛🏻 V Rising 🐉 Yakuza: Like a Dragon …and more. The full lineup: play.st/476NXsf
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm finally starting my Yakuza/Like A Dragon journey. I've heard this game is phenomenal, so I'm excited to see what this series is about.
positive · AI labelView post →Fucking hell Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth keeps making me cry in between the pervert pokemon and real estate chickens, what a singular game
positive · AI labelView post →The PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup for January includes: 🕯️ Resident Evil Village 🐉 Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth 🏎️ Expeditions: A MudRunner Game 🤫 A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead …and more. Full details: play.st/3LLagNu
neutral · AI labelView post →RGG STUDIOS SETS OUT TO MAKE "THE MOST HOMOEROTIC LIKE A DRAGON GAME YET" STATES YOKOYAMA. "WE'VE READ ALL THE DAIGO STUFF" SAYS YOKOYAMA IN RECENT INTERVIEW
neutral · AI labelView post →Former Dame De-veloper guy: My Dame Da New Game is just Like A Dragon
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished chapter 2 of Yakuza: Like A Dragon and I think this game might be peak so far?
positive · AI labelView post →I beat Yakuza 0. My first Like a Dragon/Yakuza game! The story had me hooked from beginning to end. 10/10... Absolutely loved it.
positive · AI labelView post →Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Steam) is $8.87 on Gamebillet buff.ly/48vHqI9 $9.99 XBL buff.ly/3BMSCnE US PSN buff.ly/3VV0dHr Deck verified also on Game Pass Standard
neutral · AI labelView post →PS+ Extra Jan. titles revealed: blog.playstation.com/2026/01/14/p... -RE Village -Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth -Expeditions: A MudRunner Game -A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead -Darkest Dungeon II -The Exit 8 -art of rally -A Little to the Left PS+ Premium -RIDDDDGEEE RACER
neutral · AI labelView post →Amanda Tien analyzes a fan-favorite Like a Dragon mini-game in her first story for Mothership: "At Club Sunshine, I can make sure that women are taken care of." www.mothership.blog/yakuza-0-cab...
neutral · AI labelView post →Told some guys in the new Like a Dragon game to stop picking on an old man and they said "who are you, the grandpa police?" Perfect game
positive · AI labelView post →these are the villains of a Like a Dragon spinoff game set in long island
neutral · AI labelView post →"Like A Dragon Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii" is the name of a 2007 Newgrounds flash game that's the fifth in an unfinished series of fifteen games made by an unstable group of teen developers and artists half of which will eventually die working in the game industry
neutral · AI labelView post →So many good life lessons in this new Like a Dragon game, like if someone doesn't like you and doesn't want to join your crew just beat them up repeatedly until they become your friend
positive · AI labelView post →Imagining a JoJo game but if it was done by the Yakuza/Like A Dragon studio...
neutral · AI labelView post →Video game: Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Language: English Country: United States
neutral · AI labelView post →Having my own Game Awards where I drink lots of wine and wax poetic about Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
positive · AI labelView post →Palmer Luckey absolutely looks like somebody you'd beat the shit out of in Yakuza Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, ideally while the game captioned him as like, ASSHOLE, or CREEPY MAN
neutral · AI labelView post →Like A Dragon is the only video game series where you beat the shit out of Riki Takeuchi, Kazuchika Okada, Beat Takeshi and Samoa Joe and I just think that's great
neutral · AI labelView post →Yakuza: Like a Dragon (PS4) is $11.99 on Amazon buff.ly/3ZwOtMi #ad also on Game Pass Standard
neutral · AI labelView post →Video game: Yakuza: Like a Dragon Language: English Country: United States
neutral · AI labelView post →Yakuza/Like a Dragon is my favorite video game franchise and has been for a long time. Here, @charalanahzard.bsky.social absolutely nails what makes these games so unique and wonderful.
positive · AI labelView post →Looks like Like A Dragon games are going to stop paywalling New Game+. It's the right thing to do.
positive · AI labelView post →12-days of Game Pass Countdown to the New Year ✨🎮🖥️ Day 4 🎁 Yakuza games – Yakuza Complete Series and Yakuza: Like a Dragon 🔥🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →Yakuza 0 (Deluxe Original Game Soundtrack) 6xLP Vinyl is $70 at Light in the Attic buff.ly/4gtdejx Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Deluxe X5LP Boxset) $70 buff.ly/4gtde31
neutral · AI labelView post →Btw the best game of 2024 was Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
positive · AI labelView post →Thanks to santa @mihotheintrovert.bsky.social I now own every mainline Yakuza/Like a Dragon game 🫡 Now I just have to start the series.. 🤔
neutral · AI labelView post →Not too sure who needed to know this, but you can wear crocs in the newest Like a Dragon game.
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is fun, but I can't give it a positive review for two reasons. 1: Uses DRM; in this case, Denuvo. There is no reason for this. 2: The Ultimate Edition pack doesn't actually include all DLC. Most notably, the two DLC jobs are not in the pack.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Titles leaving Game Pass in 2 weeks: -Yakuza 0, Kiwami, Kiwami 2, Like a Dragon (Y7) -Monster Hunter Rise -Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 -Lil Gator Game -MLB The Show 24 -Open Roads -The Lamplighters League
neutral · AI labelView post →Yakuza Kiwami is now Steam Deck Verified✅ With this, every Like a Dragon & Yakuza series title on Steam is Verified✅ Which game are you playing next?
neutral · AI labelView post →I got a chance to review Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii for @polygon.com and here’s the bottom line: game fucks. www.polygon.com/review/52449...
positive · AI labelView post →Really wish those people who "hate turn based rpgs" but like e33 would give Like a Dragon a go. Maybe the best turn based combat I've ever played. That mixed with a wild story with fun and fully fleshed out side quests and mini games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →October #PromoSky Hi! I'm JV and I sometimes make videos that may or may not be funny. Xenoblade 🇬🇧 Kirby🍰 Pokemon🍙 Yakuza/Like a Dragon🐉 Warriors games⚔️ Cozy games🚜 JRPGs🍡 MTG🦀 Board Games🎲 Cooking🍝 F1/Racing🏁 Power Metal 🎸 Console gimmicks🕹 Getting into: Trails and Atelier youtube.com/@jvr_bc
neutral · AI labelView post →Not releasing a "Like a Dragon"-like AEW game is promotional malpractice
neutral · AI labelView post →Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is $17.99 on US PSN buff.ly/dSiobhI (Steam) $28.99 Gamebillet buff.ly/61W1tPc also on Game Pass Premium
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazon has announced an original live-action series for Prime Video based on Sega’s Like a Dragon game series, previously known as Yakuza. Like a Dragon: Yakuza will be released in two batches on October 25 and November 1, 2024. bit.ly/3Rb3zns
neutral · AI labelView post →No problem with the high price of the deluxe edition because I plan to play this at the lowest point of my life. And hell yeah it made me better. I've played previous series that is still one of the factors that helped me get off antidepressants and depression. Even this game makes me want to stay strong and be like Ichiban. I love this game so much. If value inherent in life, then anyone can have infinite wealth. Just like Ichiban. To all our friends around the world, have a nice trip! <3…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Today's Video Game Plush of the Day is: Kazuma Kiryu from the Yakuza/Like a Dragon Can Badge line by Kadokawa
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry, this activated my "New Like A Dragon game" brainrot, and I was compelled to make this.
neutral · AI labelView post →can't believe Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth has gay crab girlfriends. this game is everything
positive · AI labelView post →finally got around to playing Yakuza: Like A Dragon and all my friends were right, good game
positive · AI labelView post →The game was good, but the story is kinda mess and its not better than its predecessor(LAD 2019) but gameplay is peak. Anyway, I will sell my left nut to go back in time to play yakuza 0 all over again.Its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Peak.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Infinite Wealth starts out with great gameplay that by the end becomes exhausting and absurdly boring, the story has an interesting premise that completely drops in writing quality halfway through the game and just keeps getting worse the more you play. The antagonists in Infinite Wealth are by far the worst in the entire franchise.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First game of 2025. Maybe this is the year I finally finish Yakuza Like a Dragon lol. #YakuzaLikeADragon #PS5Share
neutral · AI labelView post →November #PromoSky Hi! I'm JV and I sometimes make videos that may or may not be funny. Xenoblade 🇬🇧 Kirby🍰 Pokemon🍙 Yakuza/Like a Dragon🐉 Warriors games⚔️ Cozy games🚜 JRPGs🍡 MTG🦀 Board Games🎲 Cooking🍝 F1/Racing🏁 Power Metal 🎸 Console gimmicks🕹 Getting into: Trails and Atelier youtube.com/@jvr_bc
neutral · AI labelView post →It's more or less the same as the last game with the main differences being that half of the game takes place on a brand new map in Hawaii and besides cancer Kiryu also gets schizophrenia. It's not a bad game by any means, I just expected more and bringing back Kiryu as the second protagonist didn't sit right with me, ffs let the man rest in peace. His whole arc felt like the developers tried to extend the playtime. The story itself isn't great either, there are so many filler scenes in between…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Okay but why did Sega promote this new Like a Dragon game with "Uber driver sucked me off??" promotional art
neutral · AI labelView post →They're setting up the plot of the next Like a Dragon game
neutral · AI labelView post →#LikeADragon After 93 hours, I've now finished playing Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth for the first time! That game was absolutely incredible!!! This is undoubtably my new favorite game from the series! :D
positive · AI labelView post →I sincerely wish I could give a Mixed review on this game. Coming into LAD8, my expectations were through the roof. A game where the prior Kiryu and Ichiban pave way for the Yakuza to be liberated from the past and allow the lost souls, bounded by a life of crime to have a future? Incredible, FANTASTIC premise...only for them to barely follow through with any of it after the prologue. The gameplay is a gigantic step up from Yakuza 7 in every possible way, with Kiryu's Dragon Of Dojima style…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Update 'Like A Dragon: Ishin' is not leaving Game Pass.
neutral · AI labelView post →I need the Hangman Page Like A Dragon game
neutral · AI labelView post →The Infinite Wealth was the friends we made along the way. <3 Given what I've read online, I didn't expect to come out of Infinite Wealth loving it as much as I did. At the very least, I didn't expect to like it more than Like a Dragon. In short: + An amazing ensemble of characters, both old and new, that I've come to root for. Dethroned Persona 4 Golden/Revival in that aspect for me. And I say that lovingly, because when the Revival releases next year I'll be just as enthusiastic to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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