Original Yakuza 0's getting delisted from Steam on December 8, but you can tuck away a GOG copy for 45% off right now

Kazuma Kiryu.

You ask me (which, by clicking on this article, you did), Yakuza 0 is one of the best games I ever played. It's so good—such a pitch-perfect blend of high drama and high camp, and with perhaps the most engrossing minigame known to man packed in—that I kind of struggle to pick up other Yakuza games. I feel like I've already spent 100+ hours with the best one.

If you're one of the unlucky few who's yet to pick the game up, you may want to get on that. Sega's announced that, when Yakuza 0's spruced-up Director's Cut releases on December 8, the original version's getting delisted.

Sega even—a little cheekily, I think—notes that if you were to pick up Yakuza 0 for $20 now, you could go on to get the exclusive Director's Cut upgrade (available only to base-game owners) for $15 after it launches—in essence picking up the new version for $15 off its base price. "A significant savings," Sega calls it, like it's doing you a favour.

Kiryu tears up the dancefloor.

(Image credit: SEGA)

Anyway, the good news is that, if you already own the original Yakuza 0, it's not like Sega's gonna yank it out of your Steam library. You can keep playing that version in perpetuity. And if don't already have it? Well, then, conveniently enough GOG is currently offering the game on sale for $11 (£9), or 45% off. Could it have known this was coming? Well, yes. Almost certainly it did. Fair enough.

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Joshua Wolens
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One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times. He'll play pretty much anything, and has written far too much on everything from visual novels to Assassin's Creed. His most profound loves are for CRPGs, immersive sims, and any game whose ambition outstrips its budget. He thinks you're all far too mean about Deus Ex: Invisible War.

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