Yakuza 0
Yakuza 0 is an action-adventure beat 'em up and a prequel to the Yakuza series, set in 1988 Japan during the country's economic bubble era. The game follows two protagonists: Kazuma Kiryu in Tokyo's Kamurocho…
Yakuza 0 is an adventure developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, released 12 March 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 52.2 hrs to finish.
What Yakuza 0 is
Yakuza 0 is an adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and released in 2015. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
In December 1988, young yakuza Kazuma Kiryu finds himself framed for a murder that took place on a small, seemingly insignificant plot of empty land in Tokyo's Kamurocho district. The lot turns out to be the final piece needed for a powerful crime family's redevelopment scheme, making it the most valuable piece of real estate in the city. To protect those closest to him, Kiryu abandons his clan and sets out to uncover who set him up and why. Meanwhile in Osaka, disgraced former yakuza Goro Majima operates a cabaret club under constant surveillance, desperate to earn his way back into the organization that cast him out. When he is offered a chance at redemption in exchange for carrying out…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 55 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series
Yakuza 0 is the 16th of 91 entries we hold in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series. The next entry was Project X Zone 2 in 2015. Its critic score of 86 is 4 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Yakuza 0: Director's Cut at 88.
How it was received
Yakuza 0 holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 533 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 52.2 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 115 hrs, roughly 2.2 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-3470 | AMD FX-6300, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 | AMD Radeon HD 6870. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. 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 launched on 12 March 2015, within three weeks of Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin and Pillars of Eternity. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, Pillars of Eternity.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Yakuza 0 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Characters
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Dlc
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