Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
Game
Game2023
Like a Dragon: Ishin!
Developer RGG Studio
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. From the Steam store page
369 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
73
Fresh
145 positive · 53 negative
95% range 67–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 145 | 53 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 34 | 2 | 117 |
| 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
2,838 of 3,319 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
74% recommend · 147 yes, 52 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 199 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (5,203 of 6,460 positive).
Some players find the story engaging and historically interesting, while others consider it boring and hard to follow. [1][2][3] Combat is praised for its variety but criticized for being spammy and unbalanced. [1][4][5] The game is seen as grindy, especially for 100% completion, with tedious blacksmithing and battle dungeons. [6][7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [8]
I really like this franchise as a whole, but i just can't really find a reason to recommend this game, the side content is all right at best, Battle Dungeons are mid, there is so much grind, upgrading the smith is horrible, having to reach 99 to limit break, none of these things are hard, they just take so long to complete, it feels like this game wants you to waste time, the main story is nothing to write home …
- [1]
Probably the weakest entry in the yakuza franchise. Luckily, you can just skip it without remorse as it's a spinoff that adds nothing to the lore. I might be a little biased since I'm not a big fan of historical dramas but the story is genuinely so boring. It doesn't help the characters have different names which makes the plot hard to follow at times. I didn't particularly like the combat either, it has 4 distinct …
- [9]
I just wrapped up Like a Dragon: Ishin! and I can confidently say: this is hands-down the best entry in the entire Yakuza / Like a Dragon series for me personally. I went in expecting to casually enjoy some side quests, maybe dabble in mini-games, and at first, that’s exactly what happened. The charm, the quirky characters, and the endless things to do completely hooked me. I was singing karaoke, farming, gambling …
- [11]
I went in expecting for this game to suck because everyone online called it one of the worst yakuza games only to have an INSANE amount of fun. Can't recommend it enough if you love pre restoration era japan and yakuza games.
- [2]
So, I've steered away from these Like a Dragon games because they seemed a bit too absurd for my liking, but something intrigued me about Like a Dragon: Ishin! and I'm glad I gave it a shot. I know that this is a remaster of an older game so I have a hard time holding its janky combat against it, but the story in this game is just so fun. I loved following the story of Sakamoto Ryoma and his quest for revenge, and …
Summarised from 34 of the 311 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
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
74% of the 199 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Like a Dragon: Ishin!. The complaint that keeps coming up: grindy progression and tedious blacksmithing. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 369 · 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 →To RGG and SEGA: Delisting your beloved classics and forcing newcomers to pay significantly more is exceptionally scummy. At least give people the choice; you already spent the money to port the classic versions so removing them from sale is just spiteful and greedy. You've become the sort of people who usually get punched by the main characters of your own games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I mean the story is good and I like wandering around as a samurai but I’m mainly playing on the steam deck while out and about and Denuvo decides that you need an internet connection or the main screen won’t load, making it unplayable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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
positive · 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 →Yakuza: Like A Dragon Party Chat #61 "The Game Lessons"
neutral · AI labelView 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 →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 →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 →First game of 2025. Maybe this is the year I finally finish Yakuza Like a Dragon lol. #YakuzaLikeADragon #PS5Share
neutral · AI labelView post →Probably the weakest entry in the yakuza franchise. Luckily, you can just skip it without remorse as it's a spinoff that adds nothing to the lore. I might be a little biased since I'm not a big fan of historical dramas but the story is genuinely so boring. It doesn't help the characters have different names which makes the plot hard to follow at times. I didn't particularly like the combat either, it has 4 distinct combat styles. Brawler = dog water, gunman = situational and not very good,…
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 →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 →I want a Like A Dragon style game about Minoru Suzuki's life.
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyone in my board game table for this evening called it off at the last minute, after I had studied the rules in order to teach them the game. I guess I'll stay home and play Yakuza: Like a Dragon instead. Who needs a social life, right? 🥲
neutral · AI labelView post →I just wrapped up Like a Dragon: Ishin! and I can confidently say: this is hands-down the best entry in the entire Yakuza / Like a Dragon series for me personally. I went in expecting to casually enjoy some side quests, maybe dabble in mini-games, and at first, that’s exactly what happened. The charm, the quirky characters, and the endless things to do completely hooked me. I was singing karaoke, farming, gambling (i.e. racing chickens, playing poker or in the cho-han den), getting jumped at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ya boy has a cameo in the new Like a Dragon game
neutral · AI labelView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA…
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