Yakuza 5 Remastered similar games & best alternatives

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Yakuza 5 Remastered

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

Should you play it?

Get ready for a Yakuza experience of unprecedented scale! Follow five characters across five Japanese cities, each trying to achieve their dream. The connections between them bring them together, but the conflict that unfolds is nothing any of them could have predicted.

What works

  • Large, immersive world with five cities
  • Five unique playable characters with distinct gameplay
  • Extensive and varied side content and minigames
  • Deep and engaging narrative with complex characters
  • Improved combat system with satisfying mechanics

Things to keep in mind

  • Very long game with pacing issues
  • Some story parts confusing or convoluted
  • High frequency of random street fights can be tedious
  • Haruka and saejima sections divisive or less engaging
  • Lack of multiplayer or cooperative features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Yakuza Kiwami

  • HITMAN World of Assassination

  • Batman™: Arkham Origins

  • Charlie in the Moistverse of Madness

  • DmC: Devil May Cry

  • Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition

Less competitive

Games that feels like Yakuza 5 Remastered but with less competition against others

  • Prey

  • Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

  • Ghostwire: Tokyo

  • Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus

  • Yakuza 4 Remastered

  • Yakuza 0

Less status-driven

Games that feels like Yakuza 5 Remastered but with less focus on status and recognition

  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

  • Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise

  • ANNO: Mutationem

  • Strife: Veteran Edition

  • Batman™: Arkham Knight

  • Like a Dragon: Ishin!

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Yakuza Kiwami

  • Yakuza Kiwami 2

  • Judgment

  • Yakuza 0

  • Yakuza 4 Remastered

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Yakuza 5 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.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • 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).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • 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 5 Remastered. These titles are not in What to play next.

Yakuza 5 Remastered: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Status, Competition, Story.

Last update: 21/08/2026