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Promise Mascot Agency
Developer Kaizen Game Works
Promise Mascot Agency is an open-world adventure and management game developed and published by Kaizen Game Works. In the game, the player manages a mascot agency, recruits mascots, and sends them on jobs while solving the mystery of their exile to rural Japan. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
450 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
92
LovedLoved
265 positive · 23 negative
95% range 88–95%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 265 | 23 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 54 | 2 | 79 |
| Mastodon * | 5 | 0 | 12 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 9 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
2,086 of 2,152 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
92% recommend · 243 yes, 22 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 265 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (2,681 of 2,783 positive).
Players praise Promise Mascot Agency as a unique, genre-blending game that combines management, driving, and visual novel elements. [1][2][3] Many compare it favorably to the Yakuza series, noting its absurd humor and heartfelt storytelling. [4][5][6] Some reviewers find the gameplay loop repetitive and the exploration unrewarding. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [7]
Maybe I'm doing something wrong as everyone else seems to love this game, but it's just not fun for me. The controls, map and exploration are all a bit janky and I don't enjoy the majority of it. The game doesn't reward exploration and there are just generic collectables scattered all over the place for no reason. The other half of the game is sending your minions out to do missions but these constantly interrupt …
- [4]
This is my favorite game of 2025. There's a joy to everything about this game that just makes it so fun to play. From the satisfying gameplay, to the fantastic characters, the absolutely absurd worldbuilding, Promise Mascot Agency is just great from start to finish. I don't know how you take an idea like "what if it was a Yakuza War in the 80s and mascots were real" and turn out a gem like this but these crazy fools …
- [11]
Miraculously, this game is a cozy game. You're a badass Yakuza in a beat-down town filled with corruption and thugs .... and then with the power of friendship, you bring the townspeople together to try to save a mascot agency?! I'm not sure how I fell for this trickery, but by the end of my playthrough, I was ready to do anything for my big, crying piece of tofu. One of the most polished experiences I've ever …
- [17]
Promise Mascot Agency is, to me, a perfect game. Read that again: perfect. Drive. Check out the view. Make dreams come true. Learn the woes of a living unagi promotion mascot who found out about declining populations. Relax. I just don't think you can have a bad time if you set foot in Kaso-Machi.
- [1]
Yakuza side stories if it was the main story and also a visual novel, 10/10 no notes
Summarised from 34 of the 402 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 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
92% of the 265 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Promise Mascot Agency. The complaint that keeps coming up: repetitive gameplay loop with little variation. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 450 · most liked firstPinky☆ is a severed-finger mascot for the upcoming mascot-management game, Promise Mascot Agency. She enjoys knives, annoying her boss and chasing her dreams.
neutral · AI labelView post →No genAI at Kaizen Game Works either, in Promise Mascot Agency or Paradise Killer. All pure, human nonsense and love.
neutral · AI labelView post →Whoa! Promise Mascot Agency won Best Cozy Game in PC Gamer's Game of the Year Award 2025! 🙀 Thank you so much @pcgamer.com, that's nuts! 🛻💅🧹💗✨
neutral · AI labelView post →Thank you so much to Epic, DevGAMM and everyone who was involved with and played Promise Mascot Agency! Stunned! 🛻✨💗
neutral · AI labelView post →Hi, Bluesky! Meet our game! 🛻✨💗 #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #PromiseMascotAgency
neutral · AI labelView post →Had to doodle a little fanart for one of my most anticipated games this year, Promise Mascot Agency by @kaizengameworks.com !! 💫✨ Ex-yakuza, mascots & youkai, cursed villages, SWERY and Takaya Kuroda? I'm there. I'M THERE. 🔥🔥🔥✨ You can wishlist the game HERE! ✨🔥 #art 🔥 #promisemascotagency 🔥 #🎨 🔥✨
positive · AI labelView post →PROMISE MASCOT AGENCY WHIPS AND PINKY IS ONE OF THE BEST GAME CHARACTERS EVER WRITTEN JUST FUCKIN’ DELIGHTFUL
positive · AI labelView post →Heck yeah! We did it! Promise Mascot Agency rules! I am so proud of the game and the team that made this magic happen. This is a game like no other. Thank you everyone that has supported us!
neutral · AI labelView post →📢The news is in, Promise Mascot Agency is a CERTIFIED BANGER! ✨ 🎉Promise Mascot Agency is AVAILABLE NOW on Steam, Epic, PS5, Xbox and Switch! 🎉 Thank you so much for playing our strange little game, your support means the world to us! 🛻✨💗 #promisemascotagency #プロミス・マスコットエージェンシー #プロミスマスコットエージェンシー
neutral · AI labelView post →Promise Mascot Agency is out now! We didn't know if we'd get to make another game after PK, now 4.5 years later, here we are. PMA is way too big for a small team to make! We were idiots! But we did it with the support of amazing people, and working with lunatics! I couldn't be happier!
positive · AI labelView post →If you enjoy our current game full of freaks and weirdos (Promise Mascot Agency) perhaps you'd enjoy our previous game full of freaks and weirdos (Paradise Killer) ?
neutral · AI labelView post →The demo for Promise Mascot Agency is up!! Please enjoy it!! We've worked super hard on this and it rocks ass! Takaya Kuroda is in it! Promise Mascot Agency is: - open world RPG - Japanese mascot sim - creepy and mysterious - about 20 hours long - full of cool stuff to do Download now!
neutral · AI labelView post →In honour of the criticism that modern game music is less weird and experimental, here are 4 games since 2020 that might change your mind: - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Promise Mascot Agency - South of Midnight - Citizen Sleeper Game composers are amazing. 🔥🎼🎵 What are your 4?
neutral · AI labelView post →While everyone else was focused on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, I spent the weekend plowing through Promise Mascot Agency, a game by the creators of Paradise Killer (that launched on the same day as Blue Prince). The best descriptor I can come up with after 24 hours of play is "batshit cozy"
positive · AI labelView post →Promise Mascot Agency hit 900 Steam reviews today, we're "Overwhelmingly Positive"! ✨ We're also at 4.76/5 on PS5 too, with 750 reviews. 🙀 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❗ Thank you SO much to anyone who's played our strange little game and/or left us a review in the Very Busy Time for games. 🛻✨💗
neutral · AI labelView post →💗From the creators of Paradise Killer, here's Promise Mascot Agency! 💀 Play as an exiled gang member in Japan, and freely explore a forgotten (possibly cursed) town! ✨Be the boss. Recruit and manage a chaotic roster of mascots. Profit. 💹 tinyurl.com/3er3ebap #wishlistwednesday #indiegame #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Promise Mascot Agency won an Indie Live Expo Award over the weekend! Thank you so much to Indie Live Expo and @brandon.insertcredit.com for picking our game. 💗 Massive thanks also due to our fantastic JP localiser tsurumy.bsky.social for picking up the award with Pinky☆ on our behalf in Tokyo!
neutral · AI labelView post →It's #ScreenshotSaturday once again! Hi Bluesky, meet our game, Promise Mascot Agency! 🛻✨💗 It's a mascot management RPG! You play as an exiled yakuza member who takes over a failed mascot management business in a cursed town to turn his fortunes around. store.steampowered.com/app/2585830/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember, reviewing a game you like is almost as impactful as buying it! (Review Blue Prince and Promise Mascot Agency please)
neutral · AI labelView post →Lookout over the beach (Promise Mascot Agency, Kaizen Game Works, 2025)
neutral · AI labelView post →Beach behind the Town Hall (Promise Mascot Agency, Kaizen Game Works, 2025)
neutral · AI labelView post →This game fucking rules (Promise Mascot Agency)
positive · AI labelView post →I only finally got around to playing Promise Mascot Agency today, but it's a damn neat game so far! Sorry for threatening to eat the tofu mascot on stream, I was hungry.
positive · AI labelView post →Pro-level play in Promise Mascot Agency from one of our team today. Can you tell we've played the game a lot over these past few years? 🤣
neutral · AI labelView post →I subconsciously associate a lot of people on Bsky with a game, and a food. I wanted to share my discoveries more...consciously. Let's start with @andresplays.bsky.social. Game: Promise Mascot Agency Food: Spicy chicken sandwich
neutral · AI labelView post →Just a couple hours left to get this free. An absolute gem of a game. Also check out their next game, Promise Mascot Agency, which is one of this year's indie bests.
neutral · AI labelView post →@protonjon.bsky.social in a kimono, like the Matriarch from the Promise Mascot Agency game they played earlier. -Mel
neutral · AI labelView post →THEME WEEK FEATURE @endlessmode.bsky.social IS HERE!! I discuss how @kaizengameworks.com's Promise Mascot Agency creates a realistic depiction of teachers not often seen in games thru Miss. Wambui (w/ insights from game director Oli Clarke Smith). Check it out! www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...
neutral · AI labelView post →I have never felt less regret about a purchase in my life. Look at her. She's beautiful. She's so squishy, this is legitimately one of the softest, cuddliest dolls I have ever owned. Promise Mascot Agency is a perfect game, Pinky☆ is a perfect character, and this is a perfect plushie.
positive · AI labelView post →Promise Mascot Agency takes home the award for Most Anticipated game! Thank you so much for being part of the Debug Indie Game Awards @kaizengameworks.com 🥰
neutral · AI labelView post →We work with excellent localisers and dialect specialists on Promise Mascot Agency. It is incredibly important that everyone that contributes to a game gets the appropriate credit, and we specifically asked for them.
neutral · AI labelView post →Has Promise Mascot Agency a Kei Truck in game? Yes
neutral · AI labelView post →Yakuza side stories if it was the main story and also a visual novel, 10/10 no notes
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just an incredible game, and I am still stunned that Promise Mascot Agency was somehow even better.
positive · AI labelView post →Promise Mascot Agency is a game that lets you expunge physical manifestations of sin in a flying kei truck with a giant, talking severed finger in the back. It's called running a business.
neutral · AI labelView post →View of the Fishing Marina from the top of the lighthouse (Promise Mascot Agency, Kaizen Game Works, 2025)
neutral · AI labelView post →"Promise Mascot Agency" Kaizen Game Works, 2025.
neutral · AI labelView post →Game devs! Share your game engine and 3 screenshots of your game! #gamedev #promisemascotagency #unrealengine #unrealengine4 #unreal
neutral · AI labelView post →Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend playing Promise Mascot Agency! Or Blue Prince, or whatever game you like, as long as you're enjoying yourselves.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fishing Marina view from Surf Hut (Promise Mascot Agency, Kaizen Game Works, 2025)
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm enjoying Promise Mascot Agency and Pinky may be the best character in a game yet.
positive · AI labelView post →Wrote about capitalism as mechanics and Promise Mascot Agency as the anti-cozy game 💕
positive · AI labelView post →Beach Overlook Timelapse (Promise Mascot Agency, Kaizen Game Works, 2025)
neutral · AI labelView post →I interviewed Promise Mascot Agency Game Director Oli Clarke Smith @kaizengameworks.com about the game's development, inspirations, self publishing, the multiplatform launch, the soundtrack, coffee, a potential Switch 2 version, & more for @rpgsite.net www.rpgsite.net/interview/18...
neutral · AI labelView post →Game is called Promise Mascot Agency. It's an open-world adventure and management game for PC, Switch, PlayStation 5 and Xbox.
neutral · AI labelView post →Promise Mascot Agency is the game that inspired this post.
neutral · AI labelView post →My wife's first major credit on a game!! I am so proud of her and so excited for you all to see Promise Mascot Agency! When we played Paradise Killer together and loved it, we couldn't possibly have imagined this day 💪💪🌸🌸🌸⭐
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you catch the new Promise Mascot Agency trailer last night on @futuregamesshow.bsky.social? Meet the Kakashi Heroes! 👨🌾👩🌾💥 youtu.be/76PjTcJIulo
neutral · AI labelView post →Indie gem Promise Mascot Agency is on sale now. Go play the most hilarious game ever.
neutral · AI labelView post →Promise Mascot Agency. Why aren’t we all talking about this game a lot
neutral · AI labelView post →Alexis and everyone else at Kepler and Kowloon have believed in Promise Mascot Agency right from the start. They pushed us to aim higher and do more, despite the game being filled with non-mainstream ideas and obscure inspiration. Amazing people to work with.
neutral · AI labelView post →Why are we reviewing Promise Mascot Agency, a brand-new video game, on Retronauts.com? Because it's a game about confronting the past in order to improve the present (and future). retronauts.com/article/2375...
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished Promise Mascot Agency! Such a fun game that had me hard laughing the whole time Amazing cast of characters, great story & world to explore. Stank-face levels of awesome music by @alphachromeyayo.com @kaizengameworks.com truly made something unique & special. Thanks for the great time
positive · AI labelView post →My absolute favorite game of last year. PLEASE play Promise Mascot Agency.
positive · AI labelView post →This is my favorite game of 2025. There's a joy to everything about this game that just makes it so fun to play. From the satisfying gameplay, to the fantastic characters, the absolutely absurd worldbuilding, Promise Mascot Agency is just great from start to finish. I don't know how you take an idea like "what if it was a Yakuza War in the 80s and mascots were real" and turn out a gem like this but these crazy fools did it. Worth it at full price.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Promise Mascot Agency rules so hard. The game is so much fun. @kaizengameworks.com
positive · AI labelView post →Promise Mascot Agency / oughhhh i love this game forever and ever 🥺🥹❤️🩹
positive · AI labelView post →Promise Mascot Agency is STILL ON SALE?! My Game of 2025, the chill drive railgrind hunt corruption and manage talent as a dishonored ace ex-yakuza and a wide bi mascot woman game is ON SALE? AGAIN!!! store.steampowered.com/app/2585830/... Pinky☆ quit watchin blazing saddles and help do promo.
positive · AI labelView post →I went back to playing DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu after testing the game center owner side quest in Promise Mascot Agency. He needs you to find old arcade games and solve the mystery of the disappearance of the best shooting game designer. All the games are references to different Cave bangers.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm commentating on a speed run of Promise Mascot Agency. Can't wait to see how people break our game LIVE!!
neutral · AI labelView post →
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