Yakuza Empire

Mechanics

The key element of the game is to recruit new people to the gang. The game focuses on the sense of unity of all collaborators, highlighting that the team is as strong as its weakest member. In order for them to work as efficiently as possible, we need to organize various trainings to develop the skills needed to perform their tasks. What a given employee specializes in determines how effective he will be in our planned operation. It's not worth training everyone in everything - it's better to perfect some of the available skills and then form teams of people with different predispositions.

The development of the yakuza is not possible without a properly equipped headquarters. Between planning and carrying out the action, we must take care of the development of our base, presented from a 2D perspective and divided into many segments. Each of them can be transformed into a room giving us specific bonuses or new functions, e.g. a melee training ring, shooting range or warehouse. When planning an expansion, we must be careful not to spend more money than we have. While we can borrow from the relevant NPCs, we have no guarantee of their integrity.

During the mission, we manually control our team . The game reminds a bit of the XCOM series, but we observe the action from the side, not from top-down view. This means that the clashes are turn-based, and their key element is to find shields behind which we wait for the right moment to attack. The missions are varied and may involve protecting drug transport, sending threats to rivals or defending business against the police.

As part of his rest after work, the protagonist can go to the gaming room or casino to use his hard-earned money for a moment of luxurious relaxation.

Technical aspects

Yakuza Empire has a pleasant graphic design. The stylized graphics pay attention primarily in of lighting and molecular effects, highlighting an atmosphere of Tokyo of the 90s.