Ichiban Kasuga is a low-ranking grunt in a low-ranking yakuza family, and he loves every minute of it. He grew up playing Dragon Quest. He thinks yakuza are like heroes. When his boss asks him to take the fall for a murder he didn't commit, he does it without question — because that's what a loyal hero does. Eighteen years later, he walks out of prison to find his family dissolved and his boss the one who destroyed it. Dropped into the Yokohama district of Isezaki Ijincho with nothing, Ichiban does what any Dragon Quest hero would do: he picks up a party and starts fighting back.

Like a Dragon is the first Yakuza game built entirely as a turn-based RPG, and the shift suits the series perfectly. Ichiban's Dragon Quest obsession means every battle is filtered through his imagination — enemies become fantasy monsters, party members transform into their job-class personas, and the combat is built around the same break-and-exploit logic as classic JRPGs. Nineteen job classes ranging from Bodyguard to Host to Musician each bring their own wild skill sets and costumes. Outside combat, the game is still a Yakuza game in every other way: Yokohama is full of substories, minigames, karaoke bars, restaurants and the series' signature warmth for its side characters. The story is the most emotionally ambitious in the series.

Key Features: • Turn-based RPG combat filtered through Ichiban's Dragon Quest imagination • 19 job classes with unique skills, animations and costumes, freely swappable • Open Yokohama — substories, minigames, karaoke, restaurants and hidden depths • Deep ensemble cast — Adachi, Namba, Saeko, Nanba and more with full backstories • English voice cast returns for first time since Yakuza 1 • Karaoke in EN + JA