RGG’s Challenge Century is now referred to as Stranger Than Heaven

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio first teased “Project Century” in 2024, and at Summer Game Fest it debuted a brand new trailer revealing the sport’s full identify: Stranger Than Heaven. The sport clearly attracts on the bareknuckle brawling of the Yakuza collection, however this time is ready within the jazzy Japan of 1943.

It is exhausting to get a full sense of the story from the trailer alone, however much like RGG’s earlier video games, it appears like Stranger Than Heaven will characteristic an open-world stuffed with enemies to whoop and narrative selections that’ll be as decided by who you punch as who you assist. If the participant character Mako Taito is not a non-public eye, he does seem like investigating one thing.

RGG’s launched a Like a Dragon spin-off, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii earlier this yr. Earlier than that, it is final main entry within the melodramatic crime saga was Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth in 2024. Moreover the gameplay similarities, it is not clear if Stranger Than Heaven is ready in the identical world as RGG’s different open-world motion RPGs. On the very least, it does appear extremely trendy, although.

Stranger Than Heaven remains to be in-development and does not at present have a launch date.