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Action RPG combat shifts the Yakuza series into turn-based JRPG territory, with adventure and action tags. Published by Sega in 2020 from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, it has 36,773 Steam reviews at 94% positive and an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is a 2020 Action game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by SEGA. On Steam it has gathered 36,805 player reviews, 94% 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 1.7 million to 3.9 million 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: Like a Dragon can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
36,805
Positive
94%
Steam appid
1235140
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.7M to 3.9M
units (median: 2.8M)
≈ $18.9M to $44.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_94% | +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: Like a Dragon at roughly 1.7 million to 3.9 million copies, with a median around 2.8 million, derived from its 36,805 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $31.5M 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 $13.25Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $13.25 to $19.99, averaging $18.66 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $13.25 on 2026-05-23.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -60%$7.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- GOG.com$19.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
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Platforms
windows
Tags
RPGAdventureActionTurn-Based CombatJRPGStory RichTurn-BasedOpen WorldSingleplayerFunnyCrimeComedyViolentGreat SoundtrackSexual ContentMinigamesDramaNudityThird PersonAnime
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Yakuza: Like a Dragon sold?
- indielist estimates Yakuza: Like a Dragon has sold between 1,656,225 and 3,864,525 units (median 2,760,375), derived from its 36,805 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Yakuza: Like a Dragon?
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon was developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by SEGA.
- When was Yakuza: Like a Dragon released?
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Yakuza: Like a Dragon have on Steam?
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon has 36,805 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Yakuza: Like a Dragon 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: Like a Dragon 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: Like a Dragon 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.