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Yakuza 0 Director's Cut cover art

Yakuza 0 Director's Cut

RGG Studio · SEGA · 2025-12-08

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ActionAdventureRPG

Franchise: Yakuza: Like a Dragon · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Dec 08, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 08, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Dec 08, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S), Jun 05, 2025 (Nintendo Switch 2)

Discover the decadence and danger of 1980's Japan as you fight like hell through its neon-lit entertainment districts in the definitive edition of the action-adventure crime drama that created yakuza legends.

Yakuza 0 Director's Cut is a $14.99 Action, Adventure, and RPG game released in 2025, with a Very Positive review sentiment (81% of 1771 reviews).

82%
positive of 2.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
88/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
90/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
33
Nexus mods (25k downloads)
4.78★
PlayStation Store rating (2,054 ratings)
44h
to beat · rushed 25h · completionist 96h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)
Yakuza 0 is a 2015 action-adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega. It is the sixth main installment in the Yakuza series and a prequel to the original game. It was released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in Japan in March 2015, and in North America and Europe for PlayStation 4 in January 2017. It was released on Windows on 1 August 2018 and on Xbox One on 26 February 2020. An enhanced version, titled Yakuza 0: Director’s Cut was released for Nintendo Switch 2 on 5 June 2025; it later released on other platforms on December 8 of that year.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 255 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~32/week).
  • · Review velocity up 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 27,701 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 39k–88k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,966 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $24.45 at GameBillet (2026-09-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $49.99 · on sale 31 of 60 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
25825820252026Week of 2025-12-08: 258 positiveWeek of 2025-12-08: 192 negativeWeek of 2025-12-15: 63 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-12-22: 56 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-12-29: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-01-05: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-01-05: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-01-12: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-01-19: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-26: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-01-26: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-02: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-09: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-16: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-02-16: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-23: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-02-23: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-03-02: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-03-02: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-09: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-16: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-03-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-23: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-03-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-30: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-04-06: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-04-06: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-13: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-20: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-04: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-05-04: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-11: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-18: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-05-25: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-05-25: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-08: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-22: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-29: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-06-29: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-06: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-07-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-13: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-07-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-20: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-07-20: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-27: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-07-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-03: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-08-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-10: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-08-10: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-17: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-08-17: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$49.99$24.702025-12-062026-08-212025-12-06 — best price $44.992025-12-09 — best price $49.992026-01-01 — best price $49.992026-01-09 — best price $43.992026-02-12 — best price $31.992026-02-18 — best price $33.792026-02-26 — best price $43.992026-03-03 — best price $44.992026-03-09 — best price $31.992026-03-20 — best price $32.892026-03-26 — best price $49.992026-04-01 — best price $41.992026-04-13 — best price $31.992026-04-23 — best price $31.452026-04-26 — best price $49.992026-05-04 — best price $49.992026-05-07 — best price $34.992026-05-22 — best price $31.452026-05-28 — best price $49.992026-06-01 — best price $43.992026-06-06 — best price $44.992026-06-10 — best price $31.992026-06-13 — best price $49.992026-06-18 — best price $49.992026-06-26 — best price $28.792026-07-09 — best price $44.992026-07-17 — best price $41.992026-07-31 — best price $28.492026-08-10 — best price $44.992026-08-20 — best price $24.742026-08-21 — best price $24.70
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

8413352026-06-02 — 428 pageviews2026-06-06 — 841 pageviews2026-06-10 — 510 pageviews2026-06-14 — 559 pageviews2026-06-18 — 482 pageviews2026-06-22 — 443 pageviews2026-06-26 — 497 pageviews2026-06-30 — 378 pageviews2026-07-04 — 431 pageviews2026-07-08 — 430 pageviews2026-07-12 — 448 pageviews2026-07-16 — 440 pageviews2026-07-20 — 387 pageviews2026-07-24 — 394 pageviews2026-07-28 — 443 pageviews2026-08-01 — 386 pageviews2026-08-05 — 477 pageviews2026-08-09 — 486 pageviews2026-08-13 — 431 pageviews2026-08-17 — 523 pageviews2026-08-21 — 603 pageviews2026-08-25 — 530 pageviews2026-08-29 — 547 pageviews2026-09-02 — 469 pageviews2026-09-06 — 593 pageviews2026-09-10 — 446 pageviews2026-09-14 — 454 pageviews2026-09-18 — 440 pageviews2026-09-22 — 451 pageviews2026-09-26 — 381 pageviews2026-09-30 — 390 pageviews2026-10-04 — 428 pageviews2026-10-08 — 335 pageviews2026-10-11 — 380 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

55
achievements tracked
94.9%
earned "Nostalgic for the 80s"
14.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyDualShock Controller Support

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)3,0019%55
Steam (Steam)1,6665%55
Switch 2 (Nintendo)1,0800%0
Xbox Series (Xbox)5584%54

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

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