Like a Dragon: Ishin! similar games & best alternatives

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Like a Dragon: Ishin!

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One • 2023

Should you play it?

Don the clothes and weaponry of the elite to become the samurai of legend, Sakamoto Ryoma. Draw your blade and join the revolution in this heated historical adventure.

What works

  • Engaging story and characters
  • Diverse combat styles
  • Rich side content and minigames
  • Historical japanese setting
  • Large amount of content and replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Grind-heavy progression
  • Some combat styles weak or unbalanced
  • Technical issues like stuttering and 30fps cutscenes
  • Single-use dlc criticized
  • Dated graphics and animations compared to newer titles

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Yakuza 4 Remastered

  • Judgment

  • Lost Judgment

  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

  • God of War

  • The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition

More social

Games that feels like Like a Dragon: Ishin! but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition

  • Granblue Fantasy: Relink

  • The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™

  • SAMURAI WARRIORS 5

  • Nioh 3

  • Dying Light: The Beast

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Like a Dragon: Ishin! but with less of a community feel

  • Onimusha: Warlords

  • Stellar Blade™

  • Stray Blade

  • Vampyr

  • Assassin's Creed® Odyssey

  • God of War Ragnarök

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Like a Dragon: Ishin! but with more leadership over others

  • Way of the Samurai 4

  • Fate/Samurai Remnant

  • FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE

  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

  • Tales of ARISE

  • Yakuza Kiwami 2

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Lost Judgment

  • Yakuza 3 Remastered

  • Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

  • Yakuza 4 Remastered

  • Judgment

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Like a Dragon: Ishin!: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026