Yakuza 0: Director's Cut
Yakuza 0: Director's Cut is the definitive edition of the critically acclaimed prequel to the Yakuza series. Director's Cut content gives deeper insight into key incidents and character backstories with…
Yakuza 0: Director's Cut is an adventure developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, released 5 June 2025 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Yakuza 0: Director's Cut is
Yakuza 0: Director's Cut is an adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and released in 2025. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Yakuza 0: Director's Cut is the definitive edition of the critically acclaimed prequel to the Yakuza series. Director's Cut content gives deeper insight into key incidents and character backstories with never-before-seen cutscenes and enhanced features like English and Chinese voiceovers, and multi-language text support. Plus, the Red Light Raid online multiplayer mode lets you join forces with friends and choose from 60 playable characters to take down hordes of enemies.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama and open world. It supports multiplayer for up to 4 players online. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 55 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series
Yakuza 0: Director's Cut is the 79th of 91 entries we hold in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series. The next entry was Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds in 2025. Its critic score of 88 is 6 points above the series average of 82. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Yakuza 0: Director's Cut holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-8100,3.6GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 2300X,3.5GHz, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX960,4GB or AMD Radeon RX460,4GB or Intel Arc A380,6GB. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 95GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Yakuza 0: Director's Cut launched on 5 June 2025, within three weeks of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening and The Alters. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening, The Alters.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Yakuza 0: Director's Cut yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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