Yakuza: Like a Dragon julkaistaan länsimaissa vuoden 2020 jälkipuoliskolla. Pelissä on uusi päähenkilö ja uusi tarina, mutta silti mukana on myös useita tuttuja hahmoja sarjan menneistä osista.
Sarjan pomo Toshihiro Nagoshi puhui asiasta Sega Nama -lähetyksessä sanoen, että tutut hahmot ovat kuitenkin osa uutta tarinaa. Olisi väärin teeskennellä, ettei aiempien pelien tapahtumia koskaan tapahtunutkaan.
"Guys like [Goro] Majima and [Taiga] Saejima will appear. Daigo [Dojima] and such... I wonder if that's it. The amount of screen time each character has is a bit different. It'd be weird if they were always there, wouldn't it?"
The timeline goes on, so no matter what we have to tell stories such as, 'What happened after the Tojo Clan?' or 'What happened to Kamurocho?' Those parts become connected stories, and even though Kiryu will obviously have a smaller role since there is a new protagonist, we thought it was important to show how he's doing for fans. Pretending the story up until now didn't happen just because there is a new protagonist wouldn't be right, so that's not the case."
