Yakuza 4 Remastered similar games & best alternatives

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Yakuza 4 Remastered

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

Should you play it?

When a dark secret brings a loan shark, a death-row inmate, a corrupt cop and the legendary yakuza Kazuma Kiryu together the resulting war in Kamurocho might level the district to the ground.

What works

  • Multiple playable characters with unique styles
  • Improved combat over previous entry
  • Deep and engaging story with intertwining plots
  • Extensive side content and minigames
  • Strong audiovisual presentation and soundtrack

Things to keep in mind

  • Story can be convoluted and overcomplicated
  • Some boss fights frustrating or poorly designed
  • Substories and side content sometimes repetitive
  • Graphics dated compared to newer entries
  • Lack of multiplayer or cooperative features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

  • Like a Dragon: Ishin!

  • Lost Judgment

  • Judgment

  • Noctuary

  • Cyberpunk 2077

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Yakuza 4 Remastered but with less of a community feel

  • Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

  • Loopmancer

  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

  • Stellar Blade™

  • Transistor

  • Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

More social

Games that feels like Yakuza 4 Remastered but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Yakuza: Like a Dragon

  • Persona 4 Golden

  • Tales of Xillia Remastered

  • Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus

  • Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet

  • Ys IX: Monstrum Nox

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Yakuza 4 Remastered but with more leadership over others

  • NEO: The World Ends with You

  • Persona 3 Reload

  • TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children

  • FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE

  • The Caligula Effect 2

  • Yakuza Kiwami 2

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

  • Judgment

  • Yakuza 3 Remastered

  • Yakuza Kiwami

  • Yakuza 0

Similarity map

How to compare these games

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Yakuza 4 Remastered. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
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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 4 Remastered. These titles are not in What to play next.

Yakuza 4 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, Fellowship. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival.

Last update: 21/08/2026