Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio first teased “Project Century” in 2024, and at Summer Game Fest it debuted a brand new trailer revealing the sport’s full identify: Stranger Than Heaven. The sport clearly attracts on the bareknuckle brawling of the Yakuza sequence, however this time is ready within the jazzy Japan of 1943.
It is onerous to get a full sense of the story from the trailer alone, however much like RGG’s earlier video games, it seems to be like Stranger Than Heaven will characteristic an open-world stuffed with enemies to whoop and narrative selections that’ll be as decided by who you punch as who you assist. If the participant character Mako Taito is not a non-public eye, he does look like investigating one thing.
RGG’s launched a Like a Dragon spin-off, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii earlier this 12 months. Earlier than that, it is final main entry within the melodramatic crime saga was Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth in 2024. Moreover the gameplay similarities, it isn’t clear if Stranger Than Heaven is ready in the identical world as RGG’s different open-world motion RPGs. On the very least, it does appear extremely fashionable, although.
Stranger Than Heaven continues to be in-development and would not at present have a launch date.
