Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth - Deluxe Edition

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is a turn-based JRPG that picks up the torch from Yakuza: Like a Dragon and runs with it all the way to Honolulu. You play as Ichiban Kasuga, the loveable, delusional optimist who sees the world through a Dragon Quest lens, and the game leans hard into that framing, combat is built around job classes, positioning mechanics, and environmental interactions that make each fight feel like a small puzzle rather than a stat check. Kiryu is back too, carrying his own parallel storyline that hits with a weight the series has rarely matched. The writing earns that weight. This is a game willing to sit with grief, loyalty, and the cost of living outside the law, then pivot thirty seconds later to a minigame about farming virtual real estate on a phone app. Somehow it works. The job system is the real mechanical backbone here. Characters can equip jobs ranging from the brawler-adjacent Hero class to a Chef who beats enemies with kitchen implements or a Geodancer who is exactly as chaotic as it sounds. Subclassing lets you carry passive skills and stat bonuses across roles, which means build variety is genuinely deep if you want it to be. By hour 40 you will still be rearranging party compositions and finding new synergies, and that is a good sign. Active combat involves positioning your party to chain area attacks, knock enemies into each other, and trigger follow-up assists from teammates, the feel is closer to a light tactical RPG than a straight menu basher. The two settings pull their weight in different ways. Isezaki Ijincho returns in a tighter supporting role while Hawaii opens up as the main playground, a wide map with distinct neighborhoods, side quests, and the Palekana cult storyline threading through it. Honolulu is not an open world in the modern exhausting sense, there is no tower to climb to unlock icons. Districts reveal themselves through story progress and feel handcrafted rather than procedurally padded. That said, the game is long. Very long. The main story alone will take most players 50-plus hours, and the side content adds another substantial chunk on top. Some of the filler quests toward the middle drag, and a few substories are clearly there to pad your time between story beats rather than add anything. The Deluxe Edition bundles in additional job classes and story content that rounds out the experience meaningfully. The extra jobs are not cosmetic additions, they integrate into the build system and give your bench characters more utility than the base game provides. If you are going to commit to this many hours, having those options from the start is worth the consideration. Who is this for: players who loved Yakuza: Like a Dragon will find this an immediate upgrade in almost every direction. JRPG fans comfortable with long runtimes and dense lore will find plenty to chew on. People who bounced off the previous game's slower pace should know this one starts faster but still takes a few hours to open up fully. The 91 percent positive rating on Steam and the 89 Metacritic score reflect a game that delivers on its ambitions more often than not. It is messy in the way ambitious things get messy, but the character work between Ichiban and Kiryu is some of the best the series has produced, and the combat holds up well past the point where most JRPGs start coasting. Monika, Scout Team