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Title: RGG's Project Century is now called Stranger Than Heaven

Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:28:49 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/gaming/rggs-project-...

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio first teased "Project Century" in 2024, and at Summer
Game Fest it debuted a new trailer revealing the game's full name: Stranger
Than Heaven. The game clearly draws on the bareknuckle brawling of the Yakuza
series, but this time is set in the jazzy Japan of 1943.

It's hard to get a full sense of the story from the trailer alone, but
similar to RGG's previous games, it looks like Stranger Than Heaven will
feature an open-world full of enemies to whoop and narrative choices that'll
be as determined by who you punch as who you help. If the player character
Mako Taito isn't a private eye, he does appear to be investigating something.

RGG's released a Like a Dragon spin-off, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in
Hawaii earlier this year. Before that, it's last major entry in the
melodramatic crime saga was Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth in 2024. Besides
the gameplay similarities, it's not clear if Stranger Than Heaven is set in
the same world as RGG's other open-world action RPGs. At the very least, it
does seem incredibly stylish, though.

Stranger Than Heaven is still in-development and doesn't currently have a
release date.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/rggs-project-...
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