Yakuza Kiwami 2 is an adventure, released 7 December 2017.
What Yakuza Kiwami 2 is
Yakuza Kiwami 2 was released in 2017.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Yakuza Kiwami 2 is a 2017 action-adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega. It is a remake of the 2006 video game Yakuza 2 for the PlayStation 2, the second remake in the Yakuza series following 2016's Yakuza Kiwami. It was developed using the Dragon Engine, previously used for Yakuza 6. The game was released for PlayStation 4 on December 7, 2017 in Japan, and worldwide on August 28, 2018. It was released for Windows worldwide on Steam on May 9, 2019 and released for Xbox One on July 30, 2020. A version for cloud-based platform Amazon Luna was released on January 19, 2023. It was released on Nintendo Switch 2 on November 13, 2025. Versions for PlayStation 5 and…
How it was received
Yakuza Kiwami 2 holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Yakuza Kiwami 2 launched on 7 December 2017, within three weeks of Star Wars Battlefront II, Hello Neighbor, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition and OKAMI HD. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Star Wars Battlefront II, Hello Neighbor, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition, OKAMI HD.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Yakuza Kiwami 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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