How do players who really played Yakuza Kiwami rate it? TrueGG Rating 94.4%

Release date: Feb 19, 2019 Data as of 2026-10-19 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it about the same as Steam overall. Ratings tend to be steady from the first hours.

Good for

Players who want fun from the first hours

Think twice if you are

Players who dislike repetitive grinding
Players relying on Japanese (Japanese reviews rate it lower)

A rule-based guide from review patterns (no AI). How

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94.4%

▲ +1.4 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 20+ hours (all time) · 14,997 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 94.4%
Steam overall: 93.0%
Japanese, all time: 83.2%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 2.4% of all reviews. Their positive share is 81.3%.

This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).

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Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (20h+)JapaneseRight: reviews

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (all time). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

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Playtime	Positive	Japanese	Reviews
0–1 h	80.6%	75.0%	340
1–2 h	82.3%	100.0%	220
2–5 h	89.9%	42.1%	1,236
5–10 h	90.9%	59.1%	1,876
10–20 h	91.7%	66.0%	4,698
20–50 h	93.9%	81.2%	11,136
50–100 h	95.8%	90.4%	3,174
100–200 h	95.5%	81.8%	616
200+ h	91.5%	50.0%	71

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 20+ hours. 64% had 20+ hours and 3% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Yakuza Kiwami has a TrueGG Rating of 94.4%, based on all-time reviews from players with 20+ hours (14,997 reviews) because recent reviews are few. Steam's overall rating is 93.0%.

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 2% of the total, with 81% positive. The early hours do not split opinion much.

Beyond the first hours, approval is fairly even across playtime.

Negative reviews most often mention boredom and grind. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 83.2%, 11.2 points below all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (92.5% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-19.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

Complaints center on the game's design (Boring / repetitive, Grind). These rarely change with updates, so the rating likely reflects the game itself. Judge by whether it suits you.

− Most mentioned complaints

Boring / repetitive14% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players
Grind9% of negative reviews (2% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players

+ What players praise

Fun & feel29% of positive reviews (21% of negative)

＋アクションゲーム＋最高＋ peak＋サブストーリー＋サブクエスト＋グラフィック＋ミニゲーム＋桐生一馬− extremely− watch− skip− nothing− terrible− attacks− stupid− boring

Counted from 375 recent negative and 543 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count

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Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

Metric	Positive	Scope
Official Steam rating	93.0%	All time, all languages · 23,328 reviews
Adjusted rating	92.5%	Weighted by trust (95% range 92.3%–92.7%), −0.5pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	76.4%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (−16.6pt vs overall) · 318 reviews

Show the positive vs negative breakdown

Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

Condition	Positive reviews	Negative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review	2%	5%
Very short text	31%	12%
Key activated outside Steam	0%	0%
Received for free	3%	1%
Owns very few games	2%	1%
Over 100 reviews written	14%	12%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.84	0.91

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 33 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19

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When did the rating change?

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative

Positive share per month

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

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Month	Positive	Negative	Positive
2019-02	849	63	93.1%
2019-03	386	28	93.2%
2019-04	151	14	91.5%
2019-05	132	7	95.0%
2019-06	270	7	97.5%
2019-07	269	10	96.4%
2019-08	60	7	89.6%
2019-09	44	4	91.7%
2019-10	40	4	90.9%
2019-11	773	25	96.9%
2019-12	379	36	91.3%
2020-01	230	23	90.9%
2020-02	215	11	95.1%
2020-03	372	49	88.4%
2020-04	224	24	90.3%
2020-05	250	24	91.2%
2020-06	207	14	93.7%
2020-07	304	28	91.6%
2020-08	284	18	94.0%
2020-09	246	18	93.2%
2020-10	383	32	92.3%
2020-11	395	27	93.6%
2020-12	373	20	94.9%
2021-01	537	44	92.4%
2021-02	352	33	91.4%
2021-03	293	25	92.1%
2021-04	279	17	94.3%
2021-05	475	39	92.4%
2021-06	303	29	91.3%
2021-07	448	29	93.9%
2021-08	301	25	92.3%
2021-09	225	16	93.4%
2021-10	269	23	92.1%
2021-11	240	10	96.0%
2021-12	323	21	93.9%
2022-01	373	31	92.3%
2022-02	282	20	93.4%
2022-03	202	24	89.4%
2022-04	182	14	92.9%
2022-05	192	10	95.0%
2022-06	205	10	95.3%
2022-07	418	37	91.9%
2022-08	238	24	90.8%
2022-09	217	20	91.6%
2022-10	270	24	91.8%
2022-11	260	22	92.2%
2022-12	298	28	91.4%
2023-01	428	31	93.2%
2023-02	288	19	93.8%
2023-03	288	33	89.7%
2023-04	271	22	92.5%
2023-05	196	14	93.3%
2023-06	148	10	93.7%
2023-07	242	12	95.3%
2023-08	165	12	93.2%
2023-09	198	15	93.0%
2023-10	183	13	93.4%
2023-11	222	12	94.9%
2023-12	246	21	92.1%
2024-01	322	34	90.4%
2024-02	407	43	90.4%
2024-03	331	38	89.7%
2024-04	259	24	91.5%
2024-05	311	20	94.0%
2024-06	232	20	92.1%
2024-07	347	25	93.3%
2024-08	239	14	94.5%
2024-09	203	12	94.4%
2024-10	227	27	89.4%
2024-11	263	21	92.6%
2024-12	262	14	94.9%
2025-01	295	26	91.9%
2025-02	246	15	94.3%
2025-03	287	22	92.9%
2025-04	204	10	95.3%
2025-05	196	30	86.7%
2025-06	163	12	93.1%
2025-07	203	11	94.9%
2025-08	158	13	92.4%
2025-09	143	15	90.5%
2025-10	204	24	89.5%
2025-11	171	14	92.4%
2025-12	199	62	76.2%
2026-01	121	16	88.3%
2026-02	77	5	93.9%
2026-03	62	8	88.6%
2026-04	55	7	88.7%
2026-05	47	5	90.4%
2026-06	42	9	82.4%
2026-07	46	3	93.9%
2026-08	39	5	88.6%
2026-09	36	3	92.3%
2026-10	15	0	100.0%

Show daily data as a table

Day	Positive	Negative
2026-09-15	3	0
2026-09-16	0	0
2026-09-17	1	0
2026-09-18	1	0
2026-09-19	2	0
2026-09-20	1	0
2026-09-21	2	0
2026-09-22	3	0
2026-09-23	1	0
2026-09-24	1	0
2026-09-25	0	0
2026-09-26	0	0
2026-09-27	1	1
2026-09-28	0	0
2026-09-29	0	0
2026-09-30	0	0
2026-10-01	0	0
2026-10-02	1	0
2026-10-03	1	0
2026-10-04	1	0
2026-10-05	2	0
2026-10-06	1	0
2026-10-07	2	0
2026-10-08	0	0
2026-10-09	1	0
2026-10-10	2	0
2026-10-11	1	0
2026-10-12	0	0
2026-10-13	2	0
2026-10-14	1	0

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Recent sentiment

Period	Positive	Reviews
Last 30 days	92.3%	26
Last 180 days	89.9%	257
All time	93.0%	23,328
Japanese, last 180 days	75.0%	4

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