Yakuza 3 Remastered similar games & best alternatives

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

Similar games, hidden gems, and fresh directions from this game.

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

  • Like a Dragon: Ishin!

  • God of War

  • Yakuza Kiwami

  • God of War Ragnarök

  • The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut

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  • Lost Judgment

  • Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Stray Blade

  • LunarLux

  • Svarog's Dream

If you liked…

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  • Fantasy

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

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

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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  • Exploration

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