Yakuza 6: The Song of Life on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Step into Japan's criminal underworld in this explosive action brawler starring legendary yakuza, Kazuma Kiryu, who is hellbent on unraveling the truth around his daughter's tragic accident.

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is a action, adventure and open world game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by SEGA.
Released on March 25th 2021 is available only on Windows in 3 languages: English, Japanese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 7,055 reviews of which 6,573 were positive and 482 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Yakuza 6: The Song of Life into these genres:

Action Adventure Open World Beat 'em up RPG Action RPG Crime Story Rich Comedy Third Person Drama JRPG Violent Singleplayer Funny Combat Great Soundtrack Anime

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Windows

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i5-3470 | AMD FX-6300
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 40 GB available space
Additional Notes: Requires a CPU which supports the AVX and SSE4.2 instruction set

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March 2025

Ah yes, a perfect ending for the legend himself Kiryu. After the sloppy take with weird development decisions yakuza 4 and 5 this one hits right where it needs. Maybe i even dare to say this one takes the cake from yakuza 0. But that one with kiwami 1 are just another 2 masterpieces This one has a very fluid story, the conversations where u spend 20 minutes wandering who are they or what they even talking about are gone. Everything is right at the subject, the combat is finally sorted after 0, with fluid movement and the super power actually works every time, you dont need to sit in a specific position to activate it anymore...and even then u had to press it very fast cuz once you move...well you cant do it. Now is there and you can use it whenever you want. The bosses are finally a pleasure to fight, they are not a sponge of fists anymore doing awkward dodges that definitely not a yakuza would do. Side missions are just as interesting as the main story with a dose of goofiness All the characters are amazing written, with some new ones from the previous games and they doing a much better job to the ones they replaced, and the ones that are old are just better. And the story is so engaging from the very first scenes till the end Truly a must play!!!

Jan. 2025

Edit - Make sure if your using controller you enable it through game>properties>controller>enable steam input. To avoid the fps lag bug, was abit shocked when starting up the game thinking i would not be able to continue my adventure through Kiryus saga. This took me a bit of googling but it works. I have been playing these games continuously from 0 to 6 and still have like a dragon, gaiden and ishin to complete after this. Let me just say this game takes off directly after yakuza 5, and its graphics are enhanced with the dragon engine much like kiwami 2, once again cinematic genius. I am devastated much akin to kiwami 2 this game does not have an epic cinematic montage start of the game but rather enters the games story with a massive cutscene. As all dialogue is voice acted you can skip sentences after reading if you prefer a faster pace, also a setting you can hide the "skip" buttoin that annoyingly pops up every spoken line without losing its function (should be default tbh). I also wish some of these games would remain consistent with how substories and things are tracked but this could be because i am playing them sequentially one after the next without long breaks.. None the less this is still an amazing game and worth making your way through the series to this point. These games have been helping me through a hard time in my life and i am thankful i discovered them when i did and would recommend them to anybody after a crazy dramatic action packed story. A massive time investment but very much worth it.

Jan. 2025

highly recommend installing the Licensed Music Restoration Patch I couldn't believe my ears when I suddenly heard Yamashita's voice in his beautiful song Soubou How dare they cut it from the global release 😭

Jan. 2025

Yakuza 6 is the "final game" on the original saga of Kazuma Kiryu, and it remained as such for several years before RGG picked it back up on Gaiden. Even so, I'm pretty sure at that time they were treating this game as the final game to be telling the story or the Dragon of Dojima. It also released after Yakuza 0 was made, as such, this game aims to wrap up the entire story arch they had built up prior. The game uses the "Dragon Engine", a new engine that revamped and replaced the base framework they were using before, and it is immediately noticeable how different it is. If you've played Kiwami 2 then it won't be as much of a surprise, but the jump from 5 to 6 is very drastic (even though 5 already showed many great advancements). Now unfortunately I'm not sure of the exact reason but Y6 is a little bit polarizing when taken as a whole. On one side, the graphics revamp and story are fantastic, almost every single dialogue is voice acted (besides some minor inner thoughts by Kiryu). All of these are great factors. Unfortunately in the side content department it lacks a lot that earlier entries had as a default. While it has a few new minigames proper to it, a lot of classic side activities are missing. I still greatly enjoyed the game but I did feel like part of the usual Yakuza fun factor was missing. Perhaps its due to the tone of the game? Though this had not stopped them before. Also, there's a distinct lack of interactable NPCs, I suppose due to them aiming to voice most characters, a bit of charm is lost due to this in my opinion. Besides the previous point, the game is still highly enjoyable. The new city of Onomichi has a completely different vibe from previous cities in the series, its a more relaxed town that tells it's own story, despite not sharing many facilities like one is used to, it's still very enjoyable to roam around in. Sharing a final topic about the completion aspect, overall its nowhere near as hard nor long like some of the previous titles, however there are a number of activities which require a LOT of grinding for no apparent reason. It's not just doing a certain activity until you get good, but rather repeating the same thing over and over to meet a certain number of times executed. I found it quite annoying and not many previous titles ask anything similar to this degree, given that this type of grinding is needed for a number different activities. Overall, of course I love it and I appreciate it in somehow closing the story arc for Kiryu, the ending not being all painted pink adds to the struggle that the series hopes to convey, Knowing that it was made as a send of fills me with emotion with the ending. Of course, playing this on 2025 I know the story is not quite over, so I'm eagerly awaiting to get to the next games soon enough.

Nov. 2024

One of the best and most important chapters in the Yakuza / Like A Dragon series. You are going to cry.

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19.99€

9.0

6,573

482

Online players

184

Developer

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio

Publisher

SEGA

Release 25 Mar 2021

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