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Action-focused entry from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, with Sega listed as publisher. The 2021 Steam release has 8,100 user reviews at 93% positive, marked very positive, and launched with a $19.99 initial price.
Overview
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is a 2021 Action game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by SEGA. On Steam it has gathered 8,108 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio with publisher SEGA is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 365,000 to 851,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Yakuza 6: The Song of Life can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,108
Positive
93%
Steam appid
1388590
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0365K to 851K
units (median: 608K)
≈ $4.2M to $9.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Yakuza 6: The Song of Life at roughly 365,000 to 851,000 copies, with a median around 608,000, derived from its 8,108 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $12.08Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $12.08 to $19.99, averaging $18.59 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $12.08 on 2026-06-02.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -50%$9.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- GOG.com$19.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Yakuza 6: The Song of Life sold?
- indielist estimates Yakuza 6: The Song of Life has sold between 364,860 and 851,340 units (median 608,100), derived from its 8,108 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Yakuza 6: The Song of Life?
- Yakuza 6: The Song of Life was developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by SEGA.
- When was Yakuza 6: The Song of Life released?
- Yakuza 6: The Song of Life was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Yakuza 6: The Song of Life have on Steam?
- Yakuza 6: The Song of Life has 8,108 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Yakuza 6: The Song of Life within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's other releases and SEGA's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Yakuza 6: The Song of Life sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Yakuza 6: The Song of Life page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.