Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
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 an adventure developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, released 8 December 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 40 hrs to finish.
What Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is an adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and released in 2016. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Dragon Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Yakuza 6, Kazuma Kiryu will find out exactly how much people are willing to sacrifice for family - be those ties through blood or bond - when he investigates a series of shadowy events that involve the ones he holds closest to his heart. Fresh out of a three-year prison sentence, an older and weathered Kiryu comes to find out that his surrogate daughter, Haruka, has gone missing from the orphanage he looks after. The trail leads him to his old stomping grounds in Kamurocho, where he discovers that she has been struck by a car and now lies in a coma. To make matters worse, Kiryu learns that Haruka now has a son that he must look after. With baby in hand, Kiryu journeys to the seaside town…
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. There are 59 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is the 19th of 91 entries we hold in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series. It arrived 11 months after Yakuza Kiwami. The next entry was Yakuza 6: The Song of Life - Essence of Art Edition in 2016. Its critic score of 82 is almost exactly the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Yakuza 0: Director's Cut at 88.
How it was received
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 105 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 40 hrs.
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 660, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 40GB. 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 6: The Song of Life launched on 8 December 2016, within three weeks of Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Pokémon Moon and Pokémon Sun. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Pokémon Moon, Pokémon Sun.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Yakuza 6: The Song of Life yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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