RGG Studio's Stranger Than Heaven — the Like a Dragon spinoff set across 50 years of 20th-century history — launches January 15, 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Preorders are open now across all major retailers in three editions.
The standard edition runs $69.99 on all platforms, including digital storefronts. Preordering anywhere gets you the Dosu: Kagekiri weapon for free, and preordering the physical standard edition at Amazon also throws in a free poster. The digital deluxe edition is $89.99 and adds an original outfit for protagonist Makoto Daito, four new weapons, four skilled performers, three stage production items, a special promotional poster, an in-game record player for the soundtrack, and an electronic camera. The collector's edition is $129.99 at every retailer carrying it — Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Target, and Walmart — and bundles everything from the deluxe edition with physical extras: a vinyl record, a steelbook case, and a collector's edition box.
Stranger Than Heaven is a spinoff of the long-running Yakuza/Like a Dragon series, but it's a significant departure in setting and tone. The story follows Makoto Daito, born to an American father and a Japanese mother in San Francisco in 1915. After losing his parents, he travels to Japan and discovers a talent for music and performance, moving through cities across decades — Fukuoka in 1915, Hiroshima in 1929, Osaka in 1943, and more. RGG Studio is known for blending serious crime drama with eccentric side content, and Stranger Than Heaven appears to carry that DNA into a historical setting. Combat is real-time but deliberately slower and more methodical than the brawler style of mainline Like a Dragon games, with players controlling Makoto's arms and legs separately.
With a January 2027 release date locked in and preorders live, the next thing to watch for is more gameplay footage showing how that unconventional combat system actually plays out across the game's multi-decade timeline.
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