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 sequence, however this time is ready within the jazzy Japan of 1943.

It is laborious to get a full sense of the story from the trailer alone, however just like RGG’s earlier video games, it appears like Stranger Than Heaven will function an open-world stuffed with enemies to whoop and narrative decisions that’ll be as decided by who you punch as who you assist. If the participant character Mako Taito is not a personal 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 12 months. Earlier than that, it is final main entry within the melodramatic crime saga was Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth in 2024. In addition to 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 fashionable, although.

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