Yakuza 3 Remastered similar games & best alternatives

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Yakuza 3 Remastered

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One • 2021

Should you play it?

Kazuma Kiryu has earned his retirement on the sandy beaches of Okinawa. But when a deadly power struggle arrives on his doorstep, he’ll have to walk the streets of Kamurocho to escape his past for good. Complete The Dragon of Dojima’s journey.

What works

  • Engaging story and characters
  • Emotional depth and narrative
  • Varied side quests and minigames
  • Exploration of okinawa and kamurocho
  • Skill progression and combat strategy

Things to keep in mind

  • Combat can be repetitive and frustrating due to enemy blocking
  • Dated graphics and gameplay mechanics
  • Slow pacing in early chapters
  • Some minigames are unpolished
  • Frequent random encounters can be annoying

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

  • Baldr Sky

  • Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Gate of Firmament

  • Love Esquire - RPG/Dating Sim/Visual Novel

  • Cyberpunk 2077

More social

Games that feels like Yakuza 3 Remastered but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Tales of Xillia Remastered

  • Ys IX: Monstrum Nox

  • Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus

  • Fate/Samurai Remnant

  • Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny

  • AKIBA'S TRIP: Undead ＆ Undressed

More fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Yakuza 3 Remastered but with a stronger sense of community

  • Judgment

  • Lost Judgment

  • Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception

  • The Caligula Effect 2

  • The Legend of Heroes: Ao no Kiseki KAI

  • Yakuza 4 Remastered

Less intimate

Games that feels like Yakuza 3 Remastered but with less focus on close relationships

  • Sudeki

  • ANNO: Mutationem

  • Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster

  • Strife: Veteran Edition

  • Stellar Blade™

  • Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

  • Yakuza 4 Remastered

  • Like a Dragon: Ishin!

  • Yakuza Kiwami

  • Yakuza 0

Similarity map

How to compare these games

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Yakuza 3 Remastered. These titles are not in What to play next.

Yakuza 3 Remastered: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Story, Domination.

Last update: 21/08/2026