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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
Developer RGG Studio
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is a 2025 action-adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega. It is a spin-off of the Like a Dragon series and takes place six months after the events of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. It was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on February 21, 2025. The game follows series mainstay Goro Majima, who, after… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
487 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
80
LovedLoved
251 positive · 63 negative
95% range 75–84%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 251 | 63 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 37 | 4 | 114 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| 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
5,023 of 5,670 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
80% recommend · 221 yes, 55 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 276 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (8,789 of 10,015 positive).
Many players find the game fun and enjoyable, praising its fresh pirate theme and Majima's character. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize the game for feeling shallow, lacking depth, and having technical issues like crashes. [4][5][6] A few players note the game reuses assets and feels like a spin-off rather than a full entry. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [15]
Shameless money grab, avoid. The whole premise of this game is that you get to play as Majima, and that there is naval combat atop a pirate ship. Both of these are present in the game, but only technically; you could have easily removed both and the game would be mostly the same. Probably the biggest complaint I have is that the story is impressively terrible: Majima gets amnesia from the get-go, and lets some …
- [2]
Has to be the most over-hated game in the franchise. It's genuinely shaping up to be in my top three. It feels fresh for a franchise that has had the same storytelling style and same tropes for 20 years, and people hate on it! Meanwhile, the combat is fun as hell, the environments are some of the most breath-taking ones in the franchise, the new cast of characters is well written... People made me think this would …
- [4]
It's alright. The game feels a bit all over the place honestly. Combat is fun but the naval gameplay is super shallow. Story is just okay, but makes you go back and forth all the time for everything. On a big sale, it's worth it (if you like Yakuza), but I wouldn’t recommend it at full price.
- [7]
For any die hard Yakuza fans, this side installment might scratch an itch for more Majima/Yakuza content you might desire. For any casual players, this is probably the one game that adds almost zero things to the overarching lore lol. No one will be mad if you skip it. That being said, the game is fun. I liked Honolulu in Y8 so much I jumped back in with way too much enthusiasm. The pirate system they've introduced …
- [1]
Good fun, fun localisation, glad that Majima finally got his own story and as bananas and technically optional as it is, it ties directly into the main story of LAD and Infinite Wealth and I really recommend everyone play Mad Dog: Black Flag - Child Endangerment Edition Disclosure: My wife worked on it, I'm so proud of her.
Summarised from 34 of the 389 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: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii sits at 80% positive across 314 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. OpenCritic determined that 84% of critics recommended the game. In Japan, four critics from Famitsu gave the game a total score of 36 out of 40, with each critic awarding the game a 9 out of 10. Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 487 · 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 →Good fun, fun localisation, glad that Majima finally got his own story and as bananas and technically optional as it is, it ties directly into the main story of LAD and Infinite Wealth and I really recommend everyone play Mad Dog: Black Flag - Child Endangerment Edition Disclosure: My wife worked on it, I'm so proud of her.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →I got to 100% a Yakuza game without touching Mahjong or Shogi. More Majima games, please!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →Shameless money grab, avoid. The whole premise of this game is that you get to play as Majima, and that there is naval combat atop a pirate ship. Both of these are present in the game, but only technically; you could have easily removed both and the game would be mostly the same. Probably the biggest complaint I have is that the story is impressively terrible: Majima gets amnesia from the get-go, and lets some random kid steal his show. Admittedly, the "old legendary yakuza plays dumb and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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) $70 buff.ly/4gtde31
neutral · AI labelView post →Btw the best game of 2024 was Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
positive · AI labelView post →I'm having really hard time whether to give this game a positive or negative. Treat this as neutral. It's an okay Yakuza game. Fun combat (except ship battles), good music. Graphics are getting worse each release and the game is crashing a lot. I was really trying to find positive arguments for this release, of course there's a lot of positive about this game but some stuff really needs to be said and finally changed. RGG yearly releases are slowly getting out of hand, quality wise. Repeating…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thanks to santa @mihotheintrovert.bsky.social I now own every mainline Yakuza/Like a Dragon game 🫡 Now I just have to start the series.. 🤔
neutral · AI labelView post →Not too sure who needed to know this, but you can wear crocs in the newest Like a Dragon game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Titles leaving Game Pass in 2 weeks: -Yakuza 0, Kiwami, Kiwami 2, Like a Dragon (Y7) -Monster Hunter Rise -Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 -Lil Gator Game -MLB The Show 24 -Open Roads -The Lamplighters League
neutral · AI labelView post →Yakuza Kiwami is now Steam Deck Verified✅ With this, every Like a Dragon & Yakuza series title on Steam is Verified✅ Which game are you playing next?
neutral · AI labelView post →interesting concept but bad execution worth it on sale only if you want a goofy pirate game full price would be a rip off this feels like it was originally made to be DLC for Infinite Wealth at 20$ but instead they added extra low effort crap to post it as a full game instead weird color filters and broken overexposed lighting that'll hurt your eyes they should use this game as an example on how not to do post processing and lighting in schools could be in the top 10 worst looking water games…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →"Let's make a spin-off game where the returning character loses his memory and goes on an unrelated wacky adventure." "Great, that'll give newcomers a fun entry-point for the series!" "We will also spoil the entire core plot of 'Infinite Wealth' in an unskippable dialogue section 2 hours in, and then end on a key spoiler for the ending of that game. Even though none of it is relevant to the plot of THIS game." "...Why are you like this?"
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Has to be the most over-hated game in the franchise. It's genuinely shaping up to be in my top three. It feels fresh for a franchise that has had the same storytelling style and same tropes for 20 years, and people hate on it! Meanwhile, the combat is fun as hell, the environments are some of the most breath-taking ones in the franchise, the new cast of characters is well written... People made me think this would be sloppy, brain-rotted garbage, but it's genuinely just an enjoyable experience!…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the most "mid" phoned in game in series. It feels like a fan mod made using bits of Infinite wealth. The dialogue is stupid, the setting and levels look rushed compared to the other recent games. Crashes to desktop with no warning randomly. ANNOYING ASS CHILD CHARACTER IN EVERY DIALOGUE, I don't mind haruka in the older games but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I just started skipping all the parts with Noah (so basically all of it), why bother playing a yakuza game at that point. This just feels like they…
negative · 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 →The heart is still there, but it is struggling to beat as well as it used to. Something's missing, but the large parts are still there. What you're looking at is a Yakuza game at its core, but with polish missing. Polish that we are used to because, well, RGG once were the kings at reuse. The resources saved by reusing existing assets used to go towards making sure everything else was up to snuff. Now... it's being used to pump something out in a quick timeline, forgetting entirely about the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →All style, no substance Pirate Yakuza is more of the same but without the charm previous entries had. Yakuza 0 was the peak of the series with Yakuza: LaD being a close second. The only thing that might be interesting in the game is that you can play as Majima but that's it. The Naval Combat and the Pirate stuff in general are either clunky or things you have seen before but with the Pirate caption. The ship is slow while exploring and the fights either take too long or are way to short to…
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 →YMMV. It's the best pirate game I've ever played, but it's also the worst Yakuza game I've ever played.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't know if it's the best Yakuza or not, but it is definitely my favorite and absolute best Pirate game since Black Flag. I whole heartedly recommend playing this game. It helps to play other yakuza games, but you definitely don't have to in order to enjoy this. Only issue I have with this game is it has issues with crashing that I hope RGG fixes at some point. Otherwise an absolute amazing game.
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 →
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