With Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth releasing later this month, now is the perfect time for fans to revisit the entire series, or newcomers to get caught up before the next game's launch. However, this is a long-running series with several expansive games packed with content, so finding time to finish them all before Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth releases may end up being quite the challenge. Players wanting to attempt to tackle every game in the series will need to know how long they can expect to dedicate time to playing these games in order to fully catch up with the series' story.

The Like a Dragon series is one that places a heavy emphasis on its characters and narrative, meaning it's a good idea for players to be familiar with the franchise before jumping into Infinite Wealth to get the most out of the game. While developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has stated that Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth will be the longest game in the series, there are a few other entries that can take players upwards of 30 hours to beat. As such, players intent on finishing the entire series before Infinite Wealth's release should start sooner rather than later.

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All Games in the Like a Dragon Series' Time to Beat

To beat the entire Like a Dragon series available on modern platforms, players will need to invest roughly 240.5 hours, or just over 10 full days' worth of time to finish all available games. This includes finishing some of the longest titles in the series, like Yakuza 0, which clocks in at approximately 31.5 hours to beat, Yakuza 5 at 36 hours to beat, and Yakuza: Like a Dragon at 46 hours to beat. On the shorter end of the spectrum, games like Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2, remakes of the first two games in the series, are only around 18 hours long apiece, and the recent Like a Dragon Gaiden can be beaten in 11.5 hours.

Part of the disparity in game length across the series comes from the shift from the action-brawler genre to a turn-based JRPG with Yakuza: Like a Dragon. The slower combat of Yakuza: Like a Dragon drastically increases the total playtime of the game, but another contributing factor to the longer lengths of entries like Yakuza 0, Yakuza 4, and Yakuza 5 is the presence of multiple playable protagonists. The structures of these games' stories are broken up into different acts with players alternating between different playable characters, leading to more complex and lengthy narratives.

While these times are just taking the games' main plots into consideration, other huge parts of the Like a Dragon series are the side activities players can participate in. Activities like sub stories and mini-games in Like a Dragon games are the sources of some of the franchise's most entertaining content, and it wouldn't be a true Like a Dragon experience if players didn't check some of these optional missions out. Including these side activities, the lengths of these games can easily double if players are intent on finishing all content available.

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Franchise

Yakuza

Platform(s)

PS5 , PS4 , Xbox One , Xbox Series X , PC

Released

January 26, 2024

Developer(s)

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio

Publisher(s)

Sega

Genre(s)

RPG

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