Gang of Dragon is Toshihiro Nagoshi’s New Game, and It Sure Looks Like Yakuza | The Game Awards 2025
We just got our first look at the debut game from Nagoshi Studio, the studio formed by Toshihiro Nagoshi under NetEase after he departed Ryu Ga Gotoku in 2021. It’s called Gang of Dragon, and it sure looks an awful lot like Yakuza!
The trailer follows a man in a suit walking through the streets of Japan, before being knifed by a shady person. It then jumps to the same man, unknifed, sitting in a small bar as a group of Yakuza walk in and demand to settle up. The man’s phone rings, he has a brief, cryptic conversation, before breaking out into a fist fight that he wins handily despite the Yakuza having guns. He then exits the bar unscathed and marches down the street, only to reveal the iconic sign that marks the real-life entrance to Kabukichō, the inspiration for the Yakuza series’ Kamurocho.
The logo flashes, Gang of Dragon, briefly with the first letter of each word spelling out GOD highlighted. Sorry, no release date or platforms at this time.
This is the first game from Nagoshi Studio, which Toshihiro Nagoshi started in 2022 under NetEase after he left Ryu Ga Gotoku in 2021. It’s for that reason and that reason alone that we know this can’t be a Yakuza/Like a Dragon game despite it looking very very much like one, right down to the setting. It will be interesting to see how Nagoshi threads the needle of making something new after essentially creating and overseeing the Yakuza series for so long.
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