YAKUZA 0'S HOSTESS CLUB
PC Gamer|August 2022
Cabaret Club Czar could be a whole standalone game.
Lauren Morton
YAKUZA 0'S HOSTESS CLUB

NEED TO KNOW

RELEASE 2018

PUBLISHER Sega

DEVELOPER Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio

LINK yakuza.sega.com

The Yakuza series is part Japanese organised crime drama RPG, and part slice-of-life about helping kids win the claw game at an arcade, teaching novice dominatrixes about self-confidence, and writing the perfect postcard to a radio show. In Yakuza 0, it’s also about side-hustling as a hostess club manager. If it were possible to see the breakdown of my 65-hour playtime, you’d rightfully think that Majima Goro had given up his life of crime for good and become a full-time stylist, date coach, and bartender, because I absolutely love Yakuza 0’s hostess club management game.

MANAGER WANTED

A few hours into the rip-roaring drama and distractions of Kamurocho in the 80s, Yakuza 0’s co-protagonist Majima is pulled away from his main daytime gig as the manager of a cabaret venue to manage a newfangled caberet club. It’s a smaller joint, but a hostess club nevertheless, where men pay for a cover to chat up and buy drinks for pretty young women. Trouble is, Club Sunshine’s nominal top hostess is awful at being chatted up, and the club itself needs a lot of TLC too.

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