When did Yakuza Kiwami come out?

Yakuza Kiwami was released on 21 January 2016.

Yakuza Kiwami (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

What Yakuza Kiwami is

Yakuza Kiwami was released in 2016.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Yakuza Kiwami is a 2016 action-adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega. It is a remake of Yakuza, the first game in the Yakuza series, originally released on the PlayStation 2. Yakuza Kiwami was released on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in Japan on January 21, 2016, and on PlayStation 4 in Europe and North America on August 29, 2017. It was also ported to Windows via Steam worldwide on February 19, 2019, to Xbox One on April 21, 2020, to Amazon Luna on December 22, 2022, to Nintendo Switch on October 24, 2024, and to Nintendo Switch 2 on November 13, 2025. Versions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S were released on December 8, 2025.

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How it was received

Yakuza Kiwami holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Yakuza Kiwami launched on 21 January 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Darkest Dungeon. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Darkest Dungeon.

Cheats and codes

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