Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is absolutely wild in all the best ways and looks to be one of RGG Studio's best Yakuza games yet.

Japanese developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, which makes the Yakuza games, shocked fans with a surprise announcement that a new game in the series was coming on Feb. 28, 2025, and that it would feature fan favorite Goro Majima in a pirate adventure.

We played a brief demo of Sega's seafaring RPG before the Tokyo Game Show. Find out if Majima Goro loots the booty or walks the plank.

Goro Majima is taking center stage as the star in the next Like a Dragon game, but Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii may not be what you were expecting.

W aves crash against the hull of a ship that looks like it could be ripped right from the 17th century, gulls cry overhead, and at the helm is a figure dressed in a Hawaiian print

I had never played a Like a Dragon game before Tokyo Game Show. Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii was one heck of a game for me to start with.

Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is a spin-off from Infinite Wealth using the same map of the island that Kiryu and Ichiban segwayed around just a few fleeting months ago. The key difference is that those two are nowhere to be seen – so far,