Following the reveal of Challenge Century throughout The Recreation Awards 2024, Sega and Like A Dragon developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio confirmed as much as Summer season Recreation Fest 2025 with a brand new trailer, a brand new period, and a brand new title: Stranger Than Heaven. The place the preliminary trailer seemed like early-Twentieth century Judgment, the place a detective wandered round a rain-soaked, 1914’s Japanese metropolis, Stranger Than Heaven’s newest trailer is extra like RGG Studio’s tackle L.A. Noire.
A detective named Mako Daito moodily searches for clues to an unknown thriller in a glitzy metropolis full of folks misplaced of their pursuit of extra, glamorous nightclubs, rowdy road fights, seedy tenements, and neon-soaked excessive streets. It seems to be like RGG Studio is digging extra into survival and simulation components than standard as effectively. In a single transient shot, Mako holds a cigarette as an on-screen tooltip pops up that reads “Attracts immense hostility when smoking.” He has starvation and thirst meters, a primary for the studio, and makes split-second selections about what to do in fraught conditions, like whether or not to point out a harmful opponent mercy.
The trailer ends as Mako meets up with an American who’s shocked to search out that Mako is Japanese and ends with a dramatic declaration from the detective about how he’s overpassed himself. The motion and setting is likely to be uncommon for RGG Studio, however the Yakuza-like melodrama stays the identical.
Given the Challenge Century codename and the truth that the brand new trailer jumped ahead in time by three a long time, it looks as if a protected wager to imagine the story unfolds throughout, effectively, the century. RGG had little else to say about Stranger Than Heaven and beforehand advisable that nobody even attempt to determine what the sport is about.
Stranger Than Heaven is deliberate for launch in 2026.
