Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth lands on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on March 24. It’s one of the best JRPGs of 2024 — Metacritic 89, user score 8.5, critics calling it “one of the medium’s most essential RPGs.” If you have Game Pass, install it immediately. This is what the subscription is for.
Normally $59.99 on PC and $69.99 on Xbox. Right now: $0.
What You’re Actually Getting Into
Infinite Wealth is a turn-based RPG from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio — the team behind 20 years of Yakuza games. It came out January 26, 2024, and it’s a sequel to Like a Dragon (2020), which relaunched the franchise with a new protagonist and a Persona-style combat system.
You play as Ichiban Kasuga — a cheerful, broke former convict — who heads to Hawaii to find his birth mother. Running alongside that is a second storyline following Kazuma Kiryu, the original Yakuza hero, dealing with a terminal cancer diagnosis and 30 years of unfinished business. Two protagonists, two stories, one enormous and deeply weird game.
Hawaii Is Actually a Great Setting
Most JRPGs are set in Japan. Infinite Wealth’s Honolulu is genuinely different — sunny streets, beach battles, American fast food logos instead of izakaya neon. The game clearly didn’t just Google the island: the streets around the convention center and Hotel Street area are modeled with real care, and the sunlight feels different from every other entry in the series.
It suits Ichiban’s personality in a way Tokyo never could. He’s relentlessly optimistic and a little naive — Hawaii fits him. Kiryu in a Hawaiian shirt is both funny and strangely moving.
Combat: Tighter Than Like a Dragon (2020)
If you played the 2020 game, you know the system: turn-based party combat, job classes, command menus. Infinite Wealth improves on it in a few meaningful ways:
- Free movement before attacking — you can now reposition your characters each turn, making range and positioning actually matter
- Bond attacks — as your party relationships grow, characters will interrupt combat to assist each other mid-attack chain
- 54 jobs total — Ichiban starts as a Hero and can become a Samurai, Desperado, or Aquanaut; each job has its own skill tree and feels genuinely different to play
The difficulty is generous on normal mode. If you want a challenge, Hard mode adds real teeth. The combat never overstays its welcome — most fights clock in under 3 minutes.
The Side Content Is Actually Good
Main story is 50-60 hours. With side content: 100+. But here’s the thing — you’ll actually want to do it.
- Sujimon League: A full Pokémon-style system where you capture defeated enemies and battle them in tournaments. Dumb premise. Genuinely addictive.
- Palekana: Manage and develop an abandoned neighborhood, Animal Crossing-style. Progress ties into the story in a way that pays off.
- Part-time hero quests: A dedicated side quest agency with assignments ranging from “catch a graffiti artist” to storylines that are legitimately more emotional than most games’ main plots.
The side content isn’t filler. It’s where the game’s heart actually lives.
Kiryu’s Storyline Is the Best Part
Ichiban carries the main plot. Kiryu carries the emotional weight of the entire game.
Kiryu was the face of Yakuza for 15 years — stoic, indestructible, the coolest person in any room. Infinite Wealth breaks him down. His cancer forces him to confront everyone he left behind: the people he protected at arm’s length, the connections he never acknowledged, the damage he caused by staying silent. The scenes between Kiryu and the people who loved him are the best writing in the franchise’s history.
If you have no Yakuza context, you can follow it. If you played the Kiryu games — Yakuza 0, Kiwami 1 and 2, Like a Dragon Ishin — it’ll hit much harder. But it’s not required.
One Thing to Know Before You Start
Infinite Wealth rewards prior knowledge of Like a Dragon (2020) — specifically Ichiban’s origin story and what happened in Yokohama. Some emotional payoffs land harder if you know the characters. The good news: Like a Dragon (2020) is also on Game Pass, so you could play both back-to-back for the price of a single month’s subscription.
Also worth knowing: this is the same Ichiban from the site’s earlier coverage of Game Pass March 2026 Wave 2, which listed Infinite Wealth among 12 new additions. But the Wave 2 roundup barely had room for a sentence — this game deserves more than a sentence.
Worth It? Yes. Obviously.
60-100 hours of content. Metacritic 89. PC Invasion called it “one of the medium’s most essential RPGs.” Eurogamer Portugal gave it 100. Even reviewers who had issues with the late-game pacing or the villain called the Kiryu arc a masterpiece.
The combat is approachable enough for JRPG newcomers. The story swings from a Hawaiian fruit-tossing minigame to a genuinely devastating farewell scene in the same afternoon. It earns its 60 hours in a way most open-world games twice its size don’t.
If you’re a Game Pass subscriber and you skip this one, you’re leaving one of the best games of 2024 sitting untouched in your library. Don’t do that.
Available on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass starting March 24, 2026. Also available standalone for $59.99 on PC or $69.99 on Xbox. If your Game Pass ever lapses, buying the disc or a digital key is worth it at full price — and frequently drops to $30-40 on sale.
Already on Game Pass? Check out the best survival games on Game Pass for more recommendations, or the Game Pass tier breakdown if you’re still deciding which plan to get.
